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Best slug deterents
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Pet frogs?
Slug pellets?Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...0 -
Chickens!
(but they eat all your plants as well...)
Actually, I think the diatomaceous earth that I use in the chicken coop to kill mites is a good slug deterrent - it's a bit like microscopic razor blades, so you could dust it around your plants and slice up the slugs.0 -
barrier methods - like a small gravel wall around plants - can help
you can also introduce a parasite that eats them from inside
http://nematodeinformation.com/kill-slugs-and-snails-with-parasitic-nematode-phasmarhabditis-hermaproditaFreedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4 (George Orwell, 1984).
(I desire) ‘a great production that will supply all, and more than all the people can consume’,
(Sylvia Pankhurst).0 -
For pots I found that copper tape works well. Honestly. Pellets were sort of useless. I was thinking to try the nematoids this year if I manage to sort out the garden and grow something.Spring into Spring 2015 - 0.7/12lb0
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A torch and a shotgun.“Careful. We don't want to learn from this.”0
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Vaseline around the outside of the rim of a pot works providing the plants leaves do not touch another plant which can not be treated the same.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0
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And a swivel chair...... but I think that's moles. :rotfl:shandypants5 wrote: »A torch and a shotgun.
Picking them at night with a torch is the only way I've found really works.Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0 -
Holly leaves or eggshells around the plants.
It works.
We also dig our garden in the autumn and let the chickens peck and scratch it over winterThe DWP = Legally kicking the Disabled when they are down.0 -
I am going to try nematodes this year, all the good ideas work for a while but require quite a lot of work, nematodes sounds like a quick and simple solution;)Sue
Do I need to eat it
Can I afford the calories:eek:
have I checked for a lower calorie version:T0 -
I am going to try nematodes this year, all the good ideas work for a while but require quite a lot of work, nematodes sounds like a quick and simple solution;)
Nematodes are stonkingly expensive. They work very very well, but the coverage is not very large and it only lasts 6 weeks.
I'll be buying some again this year but going to try to do a whole range of other techniques as well.0
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