[chrisb1357]

Hi all,

I have my Sq ft garden going at the minute and wanted to know should i use any kind of slug or insect pellets once the seedlings start to grow alot bigger to prevent any kind of insects from distroying the veg. I allready have debris netting over the whole area.

Chris

[digalotty]

i would ,  its better to be safe than sorry

[chrisb1357]

Is there any recommened ones to purchase that are also cat friendley just incase my cats decided to get under the netting. Also using these would it add any chemicals to the soil and the veg that are growing as the only other thing in the soil is Fish Blood and Bone.

Chris

[Salmo]

No need for any chemicals on a small area. Most pests can be controlled without using any chemicals. Slugs and snails can be caught by hand, or attracted to a half grapefruit peel, or you can set beer filled jars as traps for them to drown in. Catterpillars, insects, aphids etc can be picked off or squidged. You have netting which will keep a lot of pests away.

[Aunt Sally]

Advanced Slug Killer is organic and really works !!!!!!  You can get it in all garden shops.

http://www.selections.com/GF2645/advanced-slug-killer-750g/?source=C15

[chrisb1357]

Just caught 2 snails trying to get under the netting, LOL

Cheers for the advice and i will try and keep them off without using anything for now

Chris

[blackbob]

Is there any recommened ones to purchase that are also cat friendley just incase my cats decided to get under the netting. Also using these would it add any chemicals to the soil and the veg that are growing as the only other thing in the soil is Fish Blood and Bone.

Chris

i think slug pellets now contain a substance called BITREX. this prevents cats eating enough to cause poisening.

[chrisb1357]

Does anyone have a image of what slug egg's look like. Just looked at my plot and have seen 1 orange round little thing on the top of the soil after the rain

Chris

[Bombers]

Does anyone have a image of what slug egg's look like. Just looked at my plot and have seen 1 orange round little thing on the top of the soil after the rain

Chris

[chrisb1357]

cheers for the image. the one i found was very orange in coulour but i have now removed this from the soil

Chris

[chrisb1357]

Just been digging around some of my soil in my pots today and found some round small sized orange ball's which i am not sure if they are slug egg's or whats in the composs thats been put in the pots. Can anyone advise.

Chris

[Yorkie]

Don't mean to sound facetious, but surely if they look like the slugs eggs in the photo posted by bombers on this thread, then they're slugs eggs, and if they are solid orange balls which look like osmocote (can google it), it's fertiliser?

[chrisb1357]

Hi, They look nothing like what they are above but here is a macro image i just took.



I put some slug pelletss round the bed the other day and found 1 snail and 3 small slugs killed this morning as here is what happend to my stuff.

[theakston_uk]

I got the Advanced Slug Killer that Aunt Sally suggested. Picked a 575g container up from Wilkinsons for £3.49

[Aunt Sally]

As Yorkie suggested they look like Osmacote to me.