Small Garden August - slugs and blight and replanting, interplanting

We had good rains this summer - but they caused some problems! Slugs and snails increased dramatically in number, and they devoured new plantings.
Tomatoes suffered from late blight, and I show the results, including blight resistant varieties.

00:00 Welcome to Homeacres Small Garden
00:53 Things that go wrong in the summer
01:53 Marigolds eaten by slugs or snails
02:00 Part of the garden by the shed darker, night time patrols to search for slugs.
03:31 Outside tomatoes - Dorada with late blight
05:40 Peas followed by leeks
06:15 Chicory
06:22 Carrots
07:11 Lambs lettuce seeding
07:36 Chives
07:43 Purple Sprouting broccoli
08:05 Caterpillars!
08:55 More chicories, snail dammage
09:34 Endive, no dammage
10:17 Broad leaf sorrel
10:32 Taunton Deane Perennial Kale
10:43 Fig Tree
11:53 Follow on plantings

This is Somerset in the UK. Climate zone 8 with winters mostly above freezing, damp air and often quite cloudy. Summer afternoons low twenties C /low seventies F, on a good day!
See how it looked so different, just two months ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwDMFUxWrjs.
So far in 2021, to end August, this garden has given 61kg / 134lb of kitchen-ready vegetables.

My latest blog of 28th August has up to date advice for the garden https://charlesdowding.co.uk/september-2021-pests-trials-progress-propagation-planting-out-tomato-cucumber-bindweed/

Edward my son filmed this in mid August at the low point of small garden's summer, in terms of planting. I never had the garden so empty, apart from in late winter.
Since the video we have made plantings, and I'm happy with how it's filling up with new growth!

Edward's website is https://edowdingfilms.onfabrik.com/portfolio

The garden is three beds with no sides, for easy maintenance. Normally there arefew slugs and few weeds. This allows time to care for the 10-12 different vegetables, also herbs and flowers.

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In North America my books are sold by Chelsea Green Publishing.

A viewer kindly sent this link to a clear description of how to prune fig trees in cool climates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB0D_tuKgtQ

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