[chickchick]

hi all
ive planted up 72 petunias today and some other plants and im worn out, so do slugs eat petunias? have i got to go back outside and put the pellets down? our garden is like slug city!
thanks
 a very weary chickchick!!
Zzzzzzzzz

[Trillium]

Petunias aren't their first choice, but if you know you have that many slugs, it wouldn't hurt to put some pellets down and keep an eye open on possible damage.

[chickchick]

thank you, they do like tomatoes ont they? unless I have something else nibbling at them!

[Welsh Girls Allotment]

I found slugs in my hanging baskets :shock:  and they seemed to be having a nice picnic .... until I threw them on the road in front of a bus :twisted:

[Big Jen]

I found slugs in my hanging baskets :shock:  and they seemed to be having a nice picnic .... until I threw them on the road in front of a bus :twisted:

Amazing how high they can climb isnt it :shock:  Clever little devils

[chickchick]

:?  how did they get in there?

[Welsh Girls Allotment]

I have no idea - I checked all of the plants before I potted them up so I am sure I didn't transplant the slugs but when I checked them this evening there they were slithering about :evil:

[love-my-plot]

Probably eggs in the compost that have now hatched and grown?  :shock:  

[Welsh Girls Allotment]

brand new bag purchased for the baskets, opened yesterday - and these were fat squidgy slugs certainly not newborns !! - the mystery deepens

[chickchick]

dropped by a passing bird??!! weird ild say

[Trillium]

Like petunias, tomatoes aren't a preference due to their more spiney-like stems and leaves, but with few other plants to choose from and an invasion like yours, they'll eat anything.
As for how the slugs got into a hanging basket, it had to be something in the compost, even new bags. Slugs won't crawl up brick walls as its like sandpaper to them unless your walls are smooth wood or siding.

[sawnee]

The snails on my allotment have taken to eating my onion leaves  :shock:

[weeeed]

Check out all the edges inside the hanging baskets and you will find a few snails in there with their best dj's on about to feast. They love the moist conditions in hangers and they love petunias! If you have a lot of planters look on the outside under the rims. Sneaky beggers these slime balls you know.

[chickchick]

have found some snails trails on my petunia tubs but luckily you kind folk warned me and :salut:

[peapod]

The blooming things have just eaten my best sweet pea

I'd even bought a lovely trellis for it right next to my back door all ready for friends to ooh and ahhh over at BBQs
(modest moi?)

Im gutted

 :cry:  :cry: