Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

( red fruits...could this be what you have?)

No, I don't think so - the fruits on the red-leaved tree have a stone in the middle.

Guess I'll just have to be patient and see how they all turn out!

Nikkster

Spirit wrote: »

We have one with burgundy leaves...but just the one...so NDG told me the story of how a mummy tree and a daddy tree are needed to make apples.

All three of the fruit trees I mentioned look like singletons to me (the 'plum' might have an offspring - but looks like a second tree has come from a fallen fruit to me as it's very close to the grass (and is much smaller than the main tree).
Oh well. Maybe there is hope for me after all :rotfl:

chewmylegoff

Nikkster wrote: »

This is specially for you Yorkie!

It was fine last night - I was looking forward to the eating the first of my home-grown produce... wasn't the case during my daily breakfast walkabout

Our herb and salad garden (that sounds really pretentious, it is, or rather was, 8 plants in a row) has been entirely savaged by slugs. They destroyed the cos lettuce the first then started on the rest. My twice nightly patrols have resulted in the slaughter of about 100 slugs so far but they simply keep on coming and no matter how many I kill, the basil plant is never going to recover!

Mum turned up with a load of strawberry plants yesterday. They are heavily netted so hopefully the birds won't get them and the slugs will concentrate on the herbs.

We have now liberally strewn some kind of slug deterrent (rough pellets rather than poison) around the remaining vestiges of the now decimated herb garden, perhaps some of them will make it.

What I have learned is that slugs don't like chives or onion chives...

zagubov

I don't quite understand what's to stop every animal under the sun just feasting on slugs as they seem pretty defenceless and rubbish at escaping/fighting.

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

I don't quite understand what's to stop every animal under the sun just feasting on slugs as they seem pretty defenceless and rubbish at escaping/fighting.

My chickens point blacnk refuse. Even tiny baby ones.

Ducks like them.

Spirit_2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

entirely savaged by slugs. ...

That conjours up a picture of rabid slugs.

I like to think of myself as eco friendly..however this year as we have few chooks due to the fox, I have gone for it in a "in for a penny, in for a pound" kind of way and used a serious weed killer in one place and put down slug pellets around my little veg patch.

There is a real danger I may have crops this year..have had lettuce already.

Actually the whole post conjours up a "chewie's week long stag do days are over" picture.

Nikkster

zagubov wrote: »

I don't quite understand what's to stop every animal under the sun just feasting on slugs as they seem pretty defenceless and rubbish at escaping/fighting.

Hmmm... I'll be needing some protein to go with all the vegetables I'm growing :doh:

Maybe they taste horrible? They don't look very appealing.

Edit: http://www.channel4.com/4food/recipes/chefs/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall/how-to-prepare-and-cook-slugs

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

My chickens point blacnk refuse. Even tiny baby ones.

Ducks like them.

Yep. I thought chooks ate slugs and snails, but they don't and are themselves destructive in a veg patch.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Hmmm... I'll be needing some protein to go with all the vegetables I'm growing :doh:

Maybe they taste horrible? They don't look very appealing.

Edit: http://www.channel4.com/4food/recipes/chefs/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall/how-to-prepare-and-cook-slugs

Do you know something, I also dislike escargot. I thought for a while I liked them, then realised I really just liked garlic and butter. Fennel I felt obliged and beneficial to train myself to like, snails and slugs? I just don't. When we garden the front we chuck 'em onto the road and watch them get run over. Very mean . Very un Buddhist.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Do you know something, I also dislike escargot. I thought for a while I liked them, then realised I really just liked garlic and butter. Fennel I felt obliged and beneficial to train myself to like, snails and slugs? I just don't. When we garden the front we chuck 'em onto the road and watch them get run over. Very mean . Very un Buddhist.

I've tried snails once (felt I should at least give them a go). Not sure I'll ever feel the need again.

What is one *supposed* to do with slugs and snails?