Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: frazzy on February 21, 2007, 12:48
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i just read that a coffee kills slugs :? is this correct,if true how dose it work
and whats the dosage.
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don't know about using coffee, snipping them in half with a pair of scissors is usually pretty terminal though :)
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As is stomping on them with size 11s
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Urrggg - I set the chickens on them!!!
Milkman - who picks them up so you can snip them (I aint a wimpy wopman - but could never ever touch a slug - they make my skin crawl)
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salt works, wouldnt/couldnt waste me coffee :lol: on a slug
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... why I have hardly any slugs or snails on my plot. I find baby snails and baby slugs sometimes but I ain't never seen a fully growed one.
Methinks the soil might be too sandy ... cos I'm a snail's throw from the river.
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same here wellies, I find as we have very sandy soil we dont have a problem but if left to go weedy they come in there thousands.
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:D i do have a huge slug problem i think its the rain this year hasnt been a problem before i,m finding huge mounds of snail eggs and slugs too in my leaf mould pile so i was trying to find a solution. my sister has just shown me this link so i might try it http://eartheasy.com/grow_nat_slug_cntrl.htm
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Get a hedgehog in
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http://eartheasy.com/grow_nat_slug_cntrl.htm
Heh, I want a big yellow slug like that one!! I'll trade ya 3000 of my slugs for just one yellow one. Hell, make that 5000 of mine
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...not necessary to pick them up, lick or touch them to be able to snip 'em in half with scissors...
I'm actually only really bothered by the slugs that lurk when my bed of carrots is due to germinate, then I become like a crazy obsessed woman checking for slugs of all sizes morning noon and night until the carrots are 5cm tall. Then my usual air of laid back calm serenity returns...
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lol - got a wonderful image of you in my head now milkman...
next doors cat has the same affect on me when it uses my asparagus as a toilet..... dont snip it tho (one maniacal look does the trick)
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That's the biggest bug-bear about my plot - the fact that the local neighbourhood cats are intent on using it as a smelly cat toilet. I've lost count of the number of times I've plunged my handfork into something rather more pungent than topsoil... thank heavens I wear gloves (can't bear the feel of soil on my fingers - funny aren't i?)
When I cover a bed with netting (e.g asparagus bed) the cats just move onto the next bed, ignoring with impunity my strategically placed deterrent black cats with scary marble eyes. I don't want to end up covering the entire plot with netting :cry:
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CATS
I have both a garden and a cat. Cats like freshly-dug soil in which to cr*p. Have you considered dedicating a few sq ft of your plot for this purpuss?
Just fork it over once in a while so that it is more tempting than anywhere else. Might seem like anathema to you but if it keeps them off the rest of it ...
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As one of life's cat haters, taking steps to actively encourage cats to poo on my plot is anathema to me, and they don't just poo on freshly dug beds, they poo on the long established grass paths as well....i bl**dy hate them :cry:
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Couldn't do that whisky - although I dont hate cats i wouldnt want to encourage them into my garden
I just wish (that like other animals, they were contained in the gardens of the owners so they only poo in their owners gardens).....
Cats are lovely if kept out of my garden....
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Milkman is right about the cats - they poo wherever the fancy takes them, fresh or settled ground. Sometimes it's territorial or availability marking. In Canada we have a product called Scoot, which sells extremely well for deterring dogs and cats in gardens, but it must be reapplied every 2 months. Not sure if you have same or similar in UK. As for slugs, there are a lot of covered bait traps that will attract some, snipping will finish off a few more, and a water, garlic juice, liquid soap spray will finish off still more - but mostly diligence will do it. :D
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Ah well, I figured they were doing it anyway ...
You might want to try http://www.godfrey-diy.co.uk/show-product.html?sc=43188950&ref=ga010401 or maybe a Rottweiler.
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:lol: well as long as the cats dodo on the slugs lol on purrrpuss :lol:
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go to focus quickly and get a bag of rock salt save money all year round put a ring of it around anyplant you want protecting . werks great for azaleas etc and stops em climbing pots to chomp ya plants
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maybe a Rottweiler
Sorry we had a rottweiler once - didn't deter the cats they just waited until it was inside! We had a really clever one lived in the house who's garden backed onto ours - it knew exactly how long it had from when we opened the back door to get to the fence before the dog got to the fence! It would then sit on the top of the fence, knowing the dog couldn't reach it tormenting her! When it was feeling really mean while ever the dog was in the garden it would dangle some part of it's anatomy - tail or paw - over the fence, moving it at the last minute as the dog hit the fence at full pelt! Unfortunately we moved before the dog hit the fence so hard it collapsed - would have liked to see what the cat did then!
Jane