Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: m1ckz on December 31, 2011, 07:22
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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
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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.. :)
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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
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Putting down too many slug pellets renders them ineffective. Pure metaldehyde actually repels slugs.
The instructions on mine say one pellet every six inches.
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omg well DD i put handfulls down ha ha guess thats why,should i read instructions ill go spare this year thanx m8y
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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
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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 :D
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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)
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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 :D
... or flying snails - they get in my hanging baskets.. ??? :nowink: :wacko:
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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*