Slaters and Silver-beet: Karen's country garden

Karen is planting out this raised garden bed with concentric rings of 5 colour chard/silver-beet and radicchio seedlings. We've noticed that not only earwigs but slaters (also called woodlice, pill bugs, rolly-pollies, sow bugs or butchy boys) are eating the plants. The slaters and earwigs are hiding in the hay or straw mulch in the garden bed. Karen removes the mulch and protects the baby seedlings with a DIY plant barrier protector made by cutting the bottom out of a plant pot. Using a long trowel makes easy work planting the radicchio seedlings.

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