I have recently tried Diatomaceous Earth after someone recommended it (luckily I use it on to control red mite in my chicken coops) so we shall see if that helps. Do any of you guys have problems with Slugs and what do you do??
Slugs!
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PreparedKent
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Slugs!
I have a serious slug problem, everytime I grow something from seed as it gets near to harvest the slugs strip it to bare, dead twigs
I have recently tried Diatomaceous Earth after someone recommended it (luckily I use it on to control red mite in my chicken coops) so we shall see if that helps. Do any of you guys have problems with Slugs and what do you do??
I have recently tried Diatomaceous Earth after someone recommended it (luckily I use it on to control red mite in my chicken coops) so we shall see if that helps. Do any of you guys have problems with Slugs and what do you do??
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Yorkshire Andy
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Re: Slugs!
Nematodes (SPL)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/ga ... -home.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/ga ... -home.html
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PreparedKent
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Wow andy that's a bloody good article! I don't know how I feel about brewing nematodes though, I imagine its rather gastly. I might just try to introduce a hedgehog to my garden, that will eat the buggers!!
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featherstick
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Re: Slugs!
Coffee grounds, but you need lots.
Also organic slug pellets - I leave the packet on the allotment so it's the last thing I do before going home.
Cleaning out long weeds, dark damp places, and dead vegetation will take away their homes.
And of course, the good old-fashioned boot. When Leo was 3 years old, his urban sentimentalist child-minder was showing the kids what a "special" creature a snail was - its little eyes go in when you touch it, it carries its little house around with it, aahhh, when Leo walked up to it and STOMP! flattened the thing. I think the childminder was traumatised.
Also organic slug pellets - I leave the packet on the allotment so it's the last thing I do before going home.
Cleaning out long weeds, dark damp places, and dead vegetation will take away their homes.
And of course, the good old-fashioned boot. When Leo was 3 years old, his urban sentimentalist child-minder was showing the kids what a "special" creature a snail was - its little eyes go in when you touch it, it carries its little house around with it, aahhh, when Leo walked up to it and STOMP! flattened the thing. I think the childminder was traumatised.
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Yorkshire Andy
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Re: Slugs!
="featherstick"
And of course, the good old-fashioned boot. When Leo was 3 years old, his urban sentimentalist child-minder was showing the kids what a "special" creature a snail was - its little eyes go in when you touch it, it carries its little house around with it, aahhh, when Leo walked up to it and STOMP! flattened the thing. I think the childminder was traumatised.
brilliant Bit like look at the pigeons children! our little bundle of joy "NO THEY ARE WINGED RATS CAN WE SHOOT THEM? "
Wonder if social services have been informed?
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
Re: Slugs!
Yorkshire Andy wrote:[quote="featherstick"
And of course, the good old-fashioned boot. When Leo was 3 years old, his urban sentimentalist child-minder was showing the kids what a "special" creature a snail was - its little eyes go in when you touch it, it carries its little house around with it, aahhh, when Leo walked up to it and STOMP! flattened the thing. I think the childminder was traumatised.
Bit like look at the pigeons children! our little bundle of joy "NO THEY ARE WINGED RATS CAN WE SHOOT THEM? "
Wonder if social services have been informed?
love it. Cure for slugs? Full on, non organic slug pellets. All out, full on chemical warfare. You don't need that many. My friend who is a research scientist, says it is best to chuck slug pellets into your neighbours garden as the pheromones they contain attract them to their death!
I keep plenty in as they last. If it was SHTF the crops you grow will be more than a hobby.
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Re: Slugs!
Ha ha. Somehow my post got mixed with yours! Aah well you get the message.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
Me.
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Yorkshire Andy
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Re: Slugs!
jansman wrote:Ha ha. Somehow my post got mixed with yours! Aah well you get the message.
problem with the none organic pellets predatory birds / mammals such as the Thrush and hogeheg also don't like the accumulative poison from several slugs in their system likewise domestic pets...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/pla ... rush.shtml
http://www.wildlifeaid.org.uk/articles/ ... -pellets-0
and they really are the gardeners friend and more so in a SHTF situation after you use the last of your pellets the Namatodes (or the DIY effort in the times link) is safe to them so you get the combined effect of the Namatodes, and the wild life helping you
and if you add a few to your home brew mix in the link above you will have a good supply of the hungry little blighters 
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Re: Slugs!
PreparedKent wrote:Wow andy that's a bloody good article! I don't know how I feel about brewing nematodes though, I imagine its rather gastly. I might just try to introduce a hedgehog to my garden, that will eat the buggers!!
you can buy them ready brewed just water on
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slug-Nematodes- ... tode+slugs
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong
Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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Re: Slugs!
Slugs are a major problem around here (South West England). The best short-term methods that I can recommend for getting rid of them are:PreparedKent wrote:I have a serious slug problem, everytime I grow something from seed as it gets near to harvest the slugs strip it to bare, dead twigs
I have recently tried Diatomaceous Earth after someone recommended it (luckily I use it on to control red mite in my chicken coops) so we shall see if that helps. Do any of you guys have problems with Slugs and what do you do??
1. Beer traps. Jam jars, or simiar with the cheapest supermarket bitter that you can buy (they particularly like drowning in Tesco's undrinkable brew).
2. Wander around the garden at dawn with a torch and throw any that you find in a bucket of bleach.
A number of the old boys on the allotment spray a solution of Jeyes at the start of the season (!), but I don't recommend that.
Long-term, I have had some success by encouraging birds into the garden, however they don't eat anywhere enough of the horrible creatures!
I hope that helps.