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26-06-2019, 02:58 PM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

Originally Posted by Mups ->
That's interesting Bratti, thank you.
I know my friend used that as a wormer for her poultry too.
She also sprinkles it about on the ground and bedding in her fox pens. (She rescues foxes).
She keeps poultry and rescues foxes!

That's very magnanimous of her!
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26-06-2019, 02:58 PM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

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I haven't used nematodes yet, as I've been out of gardening for a few years. They might be better for slugs than for weevils.

You can get ladybird larvae which are voracious devourers of aphids, so I am wondering if they would devour vine weevil larvae? Or are the larvae like mealworms? If the latter, the birds might welcome them!


I always swore by copper tape for slugs and snails, but obviously the plant has to be in a container and the soil clean of eggs. Plus, there should be be no overhanging plants next to the pot, else the wily snails climb up them and drop onto the target plant, bypassing the copper tape!

Maybe a combo of copper tape and nematodes?

I love hostas, and have a perfect shady bed for them, and would like to try and grow some again, but it is soul-destroying to see them chomped.

Thanks Pyxell. I haven't tried the copper tape, but as you say, that would not help plants in the ground, only in pots.

I have quite a few Ladybirds this year, but I doubt they could ear the Weeval lavae as the little maggoty looking blighters are 2-3 inches under the soil normally, munching away the plant's roots.

Failing that, perhaps I ought to send for some more Nematodes. I will think on that. Thanks again.
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26-06-2019, 03:02 PM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

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She keeps poultry and rescues foxes!

That's very magnanimous of her!

Yes. She had a few hens of her own, but a local animal rescue was desperate for homes for hens as they had just rescued 250! My friend took 12 of them.
She also has around 19 foxes (last count)!

I can smell 'em as I get out me car, they don't half pong don't they.

She also has about 12 cats too. Mad woman.
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26-06-2019, 03:53 PM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

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Mups I use the very fine grit in a circle around each plant , it is quite sharp so not easy for them to crawl over. I sometimes use 'collars' made from clear disposable plastic picnic mugs with the bottoms cut out similar to this made from a bottle but I don't have any of those...
The grit goes inside the ring.




Hmm... wonder if those collars would work more effectively by smearing a thin film of Vaseline over them so the slugs can't get a grip?
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26-06-2019, 03:55 PM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

Originally Posted by Mups ->
Yes. She had a few hens of her own, but a local animal rescue was desperate for homes for hens as they had just rescued 250! My friend took 12 of them.
She also has around 19 foxes (last count)!

I can smell 'em as I get out me car, they don't half pong don't they.

She also has about 12 cats too. Mad woman.
It's the cats that stink - damn things spraying everywhere.
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26-06-2019, 04:19 PM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

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It's the cats that stink - damn things spraying everywhere.


Oh do stop griping you miserable old wotsit, Judsy.
She hasn't got any un-neutered Toms.

Anyway, there is no mistaking a fox smell, believe me. Stinks to high heaven it does . . . even worse than your socks.
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26-06-2019, 11:31 PM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

Originally Posted by Mups ->
That's interesting Bratti, thank you.
I know my friend used that as a wormer for her poultry too.
She also sprinkles it about on the ground and bedding in her fox pens. (She rescues foxes).
My pleasure. Yes it’s often used in chicken feed for parasite control.
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27-06-2019, 06:43 AM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

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Don't even start me on the subject Mups. I've been doing dawn and dusk patrols and this rain doesn't help. But a colleague at work mentioned that she has no slugs or snails on her veg because a gardener she has used put down some special sharp gravel that repels them. I'm thinking of trying it next year. I think it works a bit like eggshells but you don't have to eat a whole load of blinkin' eggs!
I tried that, there was an enormous snail on the patio which I picked up and threw over the fence last week, this morning there was a knock on the door, when I opened the door the snail was there ..he said, ‘what did you do that for?’


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27-06-2019, 07:17 AM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

Hi

The chemicals are out and being used full blast.

I am not a Food Bank for slugs.
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27-06-2019, 08:25 AM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

Originally Posted by Judd ->
Hmm... wonder if those collars would work more effectively by smearing a thin film of Vaseline over them so the slugs can't get a grip?
Judd you can 'frill' the top the slugs can't climb over that.



You can now buy slug collars but they are expensive when you can make your own and they don't look great,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Slug-Collar...utdoors&sr=1-3
 
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