Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: willowman on March 24, 2010, 12:44
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I've started to grow some radishes in a long container on a shelf in the greenhouse.
They are now about 2 inches tall with 2 leaves. When I checked them this morning some of the leaves had already been eaten!
What little monster can be doing this?
If it's a snail/slug then they have had to climb 3 feet up some shelving, then go up the side of the container, deal with the overhanging lip, get into the container, eat and then somehow use an escape route so that I can't find them.
Blighters!!
As a precaution slug pellets have been scattered in all seed trays.
I can just about accept them attacking the veg in the garden but to target the greenhouse is a bit underhand. it's just not cricket, old boy.
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Could be ants,they can be right little so and so's :unsure:
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i have :lol:
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Some sort of Ninja Sailor Moon Slug?
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.............I was lost, tired, cold and hungry, and being more than 3' tall it was just all too much of a temptation and just couldn't resist a little nibble. Sorry! :(
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probably flea beetles :) they eat lots of little holes out of the leaves and jump just like fleas
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Or cheeseybobs.
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Are they from the Wotsit family of pests?
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slugs can hide in the trays and come out at night to eat your radish
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Both slugs and snails can climb. Never met one yet that suffers from vertigo.lol :D
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That just brought a smile to my face, David, trying to imagine a snail with vertigo!
His head would be spinning, but very very slowly.
Brought to mind the old Donovan song "Lock upon my garden gate's a snail, that's what it is"
That will totally mistify the youngsters on here, (Who is this Donovan? What's he on about?) and bring back memories for the oldies. Amazing what drivel was written under the influence of some exotic smokes.
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I never realised being a gardner is hell. Its sounds like war !
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Not me ! they give me hiccups ! I think the flea beetle has been at them. Is the compost fresh cos some creatures can lurk in old compost and emerge when there is tasty greenery to chump on.
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corndolly - the trough was half filled with a mixture of unwanted sieved soil and home made compost, topped with commercial compost.
The flea beetle sounds a possibility, so I'll now get the Bug-off out and give them a blast with that.
just to elaborate on the damage, some leaves have been eaten from the edge, others have been eaten right down to the stem and one stem has been chewed down to just above the soil line.
You're right Tykelad, it's war out there and it's starting to get ugly.
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You're right Tykelad, it's war out there and it's starting to get ugly.
:D :D :D
if the bug offs coming out would that make it chemical warfare