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m1ckz · « **on:** December 31, 2011, 07:22 »

this year i had a bad time with slugs , a n old boy (lol) im 70 listen to me ha ha,anyway he said get a bag of sharp sand an put it round the plants they wont travel over it wonder if it works

AndyRVTR · « **Reply #1 on:** December 31, 2011, 07:47 »

Morning M1ckz, slugs dont really like going over anything course, I remember my old Dad putting the ashes/clinker from our coal fire around the edges of his beds. Some folk swear by putting eggs shells around plants too... not sure how effective they all are though... I use pellets myself (sparingly) which seems to keep the numbers down..

m1ckz · « **Reply #2 on:** December 31, 2011, 07:55 »

i used loads of pellets this year too,,,lil beggers ignored them lol,i ger them from poundland but they cleared there shelves earl for Christmas things lol thanx m8

DD. · « **Reply #3 on:** December 31, 2011, 08:05 »

Putting down too many slug pellets renders them ineffective. Pure metaldehyde actually repels slugs.

The instructions on mine say one pellet every six inches.

m1ckz · « **Reply #4 on:** December 31, 2011, 08:09 »

omg well DD i put handfulls down ha ha guess thats why,should i read instructions ill go spare this year thanx m8y

sunshineband · « **Reply #5 on:** December 31, 2011, 09:58 »

Some of our slugs seem immune to coarse stuff, but dislike soot.

Trouble is, I dislike soot too, so resort to hand icking by torch light and blue pellets of death esp in the mini tunnel at the plot

seedman · « **Reply #6 on:** December 31, 2011, 10:17 »

Hi half of my back garden is gravel half grass on the the stones we have potted plants the stones beggers still get to them has any one seen flying slugs, i think for every one you kill these 10 more waitting in the grass

Growster... · « **Reply #7 on:** December 31, 2011, 10:22 »

It really has to be pellets here, if there are no veg in the way, (like leeks I just chuck a handfull in the air, and they come down at roughly the right spacing. We haven't bought any for a year or so, and they do need to be spaced out (not on recreational chemicals you understand...;0)

Goosegirl · « **Reply #8 on:** December 31, 2011, 13:26 »

Quote from: seedman on December 31, 2011, 10:17

Hi half of my back garden is gravel half grass on the the stones we have potted plants the stones beggers still get to them has any one seen flying slugs, i think for every one you kill these 10 more waitting in the grass

... or flying snails - they get in my hanging baskets..

mumofstig · « **Reply #9 on:** December 31, 2011, 14:28 »

It's tiny snails that have ruined my greenhouse salads this year, despite having slug pellets down

They'd obviously rather eat salad, and who can blame them *sigh*

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