The revenge of the stripey socks - a DFW adventure

mogchops

Hi Fay, welcome back!!

Am being v quick as at work....but you are such a gardening guru, I wanted to ask your advice about slugs?

We have just planted out lettuces & cabbages & broad beans, all covered with netting & so far so good. No sign of slugs yet but I know they will come! This is first year we have had proper veggie patch, only had tomatoes in pots before now.

What do you recommend is the best way to deal with sluggies? Pellets? Or something else? Any advice gratefully received, thank you v much! xx

Lemon_Tree

my courgettes have been a bit dodgy this year, in fact i fished out the seeds from what felt like very soggy soil and am trying them in new pots, fingers crossed this may work otherwise will have to go and buy some seeds or seedlings.
potted on some broccolli during the weekend and lots of flower bedding plants we bought two weekends ago, need to take a look at my other seedlings though and see what else i can pot on but i think i'm running out of pots!
A few years ago i got these black plastic/rubber flexible ones from Wilko's but they don't seem to do them any more, they called them breeding pots and they're fab, go on for ages, very cheap and squish together well on watering trays, has anyone else seen them around?

OliveOyl_2

Morning Mogchops, we've been plagued with slugs (nice damp overgrown garden) every year. THE best (i.e. least slug damage, not the greatest number of slugs) year we had was when we bribed DS2 to go out each evening and pick slugs off the plants (1p per slug, and we cheated )

This year DS2 is at unversity and can't be [STRIKE]duped[/STRIKE] persuaded to pick slugs, so I have Nematodes :j:j

It cost £29 to have 12 million posted to me, 3 times over the next 12 weeks Diluted and watered into the soil those 12 million cover 40 Sq Metres with these organisms that eat the slugs. They don't remain in the soil, hence the re-application in a few weeks time and this method is suitable for organic gardening, which is my aim.

The problem with pellets is that birds can eat the poisoned slugs and that is bad The problem with the organic slug pellets I used (slug feels drunk and falls asleep in the sun and either dries or is eaten by a bird) is the price :eek::eek:

Sorry for the hijack Fay - I actually came here to ask about wild garlic

HockeyDuo8083

Hiya Fay,

Glad you made it home safe. Well done on getting under budget, that's awesome!
Loving your Stardrops chat, I was introduced to it a couple of months ago via the OS boards and have not looked back. Not very green but it really does clean everything.

p.s Saw a Hairy McLairy book in a shop window at weekend and thought of you!

Pippilongstocking

Hiya
Hockeyduo - I knwo what you mean but if you use less of anything of the other cleaning stuff then -- that's green - and from what I read those little stardrops chaps go along way. Hairy mclairy is sleeping beside me at the moment! (Peedie)

Slugs - to be honest I havent ever used pellets - I much prefer a hands on approach with hand picking, scissors and immenent death to slug - moamahaahahahahaah - or beer traps Although Nematodes are great - (evil and horrible but great) - I do just pick off slugs tbh - but I know its not everyone's cup of tea - use beer as well sometimes and bran (they explode). I generally just keep on top of them by slug hunting - keepign getting hte mummies and dadddies keeps them down I find - but outside - egg shells, grit - copper collars or beer traps I guess ? nematodes are brilliant - but not cheap

Wild garlic you say?????

Pippilongstocking

unixgirluk wrote: »

Hi Fay, glad you're home safe. Well done on coming in under budget. Did you manage to get everything that was on your list?

Almost got the full list - No soy sauce or big vinegar etc cos missed off chinese supermarket and no bi-carb - kept thinking I will find a bigger one but I didn't. Otherwise all the list in the garage now all on shelves and ordered

Bluis ?OIC?

LT - try and google - bag pots or something similar - OR POLYPOTS OR LOOK AT THIS - LET ME KNOW IF THIS IS THE RIGHT THING - http://www.hadopots.co.uk/ -you will get these in garden centres on shelves stashed away somewhere - nurseries use them alot as well - they are easy to use and v cheap - if you can't find any pm me - I have a stash here can send you some

OliveOyl_2

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don't know what I did there but the long essay on slugs'n'garlic has gone

Pippilongstocking

this is my own stripey socks shoppe - about 3/4 of the shop is in the garage

Pippilongstocking

Hugs Olive argh - I hate it when that happens - glad you had fun with Popeye and seeing him soon again

I see DDDPD (OH) in about 2 weeks or so - x

OliveOyl_2

I love the way you have so many matching labels (Sainsburys basics isn't it? :rotfl:)

My DS2 is def a MS geek. I see he's using Basics shaving foam - and I'd always bought him posh stuff because of his sensitive skin :rotfl: