I like the look of containers BUT  for me it was more practical to do it the way we did to keep the dogs off it and also so I can safely use snail pellets, I admit I use a herbicide to kill the grass, not very organic am I? I can also use the wire for peas, snow peas etc.

I keep the eggshells. After a day or two they dry. 

Then I crumble them, but just into chunks.

Throw them around the vegie patch.

I did these on a weekly basis, continually for the growing season

 

They serve 3 purposes - first - snails hate 'em.  They cut.

 Second - they deter cabbage moth. Moths see all that white and

think its all cabbage moths, so nick off elsewhere.

Thirdly, it puts calcium back into the soil.

 

Brown vinegar or boiling water kills weeds.

But only on paths - do not use it in the garden

Good idea re the egg shells, will remember to try to that one

Salt around garden beds also deters slugs and snails.

Peppers (like cayenne or black pepper) can deter cats (without hurting them, but it's funny to watch them sneeze 😉 )

Eggshells are also great in compost.

Compost is absolutely wonderful ... it recycles your waste and gives you a great product to use elsewhere.

I put all my friut/veggie scraps through the liquidiser, add some tank water and put it over the garden, works a treat    .... Good tip re pepper and cats, might keep them off my front garden

We brought the seed of that vine in with free garden mulch from the council about 8 years not noticing it until it fruited and thought it was chokoes, imastawka. We nearly lost our garden under it and our sanity trying to get rid of it and I've never known what the blessed thing was called until now! It still pops up in various spots.

Anyone have any suggestions on keeping snakes out of the vege patch. It happened a few times last year, they seem to love to sunbathe on the mulch. The hardest part is keeping our dog a Jack Russell away, he seems to think that they are sport. I know that they are protected animals, but I can't stand them.

Adopt a blue tongue perhaps. I've heard they're good for keeping snakes away.

Blue tongues are quick and can take a snake out before it knows what hit it. They of course are not aware that they are protected, and believe in get it before it gets me.

Guinea fowl keep snakes away and also the nasty bugs that damage the plants. If you have guineas you also don't have ticks and fleas.