Encouraging more wildlife into our gardens can't be a bad thing. Many species of birds, including the song thrush, insects and other animals will happily devour many of the pests that we usually radicate using pesticedes and other nasties....
Unfortunately, here in the UK our mild damp climate offers the perfect breading ground for every gardener's worst enemy - slugs and snails. Our winters are far to soft on these tiny mollusc's and our springs and autumns, far too damp....