Thanks for posting this Bluebell, it is really heartening and I am excited to think of you experiencing such wonderful growth. It has been my experience for so long and I feel fortunate to help other gardeners with tips on no dig, as well as other things such as plant raising.
This is turning into a rather difficult spring and your comment on slugs being a problem is increasingly true. Be careful of overdoing the organic slug pellets which, it was recently announced, contain something unfriendly as their ‘chelating agent’. There was a recent post here about success with pellets of old wool…