25-08-2013, 11:42 AM
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Todays Task!
When gardening I set myself a task for the day, allowing an hour on and a hour of rest.I was out there at the crack of dawn today, to collect up the slugs and snails, this year has been horrendous for them.
I came in had my breakfast, no not slugs and snails but wheatabix a mug of coffee and that rest I promised.
I did another hour breaking up an old fence panel, which I will compost, collected up some weed that comes through on 3 sides {columbine I think its called} ready to dry out for incineration.
Then I am back in for a rest and watch the F!, before having another hour tidying up a corner where all my fish equipment was, I have decommissioned a Koi pond, and now left with some rubbish to get rid of, bit by bit in the dustbin as most of it is plastic.
If I can do that today I shall be happy, having earned my corn.
If anybody requires any pumps water or air plus, much more PM me.
25-08-2013, 02:30 PM
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We do much the same Arthur. But I'm afraid we get side-tracked
My task today, after the nurse had gone (she was nice and early
) was to pick all the ripe tomatoes and trim them, I then ended up dead-heading the geraniums 
Hubby was supposed to fix his solar pump on the water feature he got so far but got side-tracked helping me
We are in now because we are hungry and his back is painful. I will not allow him to do any more today ..
We've had no trouble with slugs and snails this year, just a couple I found today under a pot. What do you do with yours - I generally stamp on the snails and cut the slugs in half - hoping the blackbirds will eat them.
25-08-2013, 03:08 PM
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Over the last two nights I have collect half a bucket of slugs and snails from my garden including the longest slug I have ever seen measuring 5 inches
imagine that chomping through your plants . I go out with a torch and bucket about 11pm.
I used to tip the bucket down the lane for the birds but having found out a while ago that slugs have a homing instinct I now put them in a bin bag then in the dustbin.
25-08-2013, 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Janela
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5 inches MegWe really haven't had any, let alone half a bucketful.
Tell a lie! We've found quite a few snails in the green bin - they get emptied out when the bin gets emptied
I have found slugs and snails tend not to appear before 11pm so that is when I go out with my torch 
I spent time almost every warm damp night last year collecting loads of them and got to the stage where there were almost none left but they are coming back.
25-08-2013, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Meg
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Over the last two nights I have collect half a bucket of slugs and snails from my garden including the longest slug I have ever seen measuring 5 inches imagine that chomping through your plants . I go out with a torch and bucket about 11pm.
I used to tip the bucket down the lane for the birds but having found out a while ago that slugs have a homing instinct I now put them in a bin bag then in the dustbin.
OH would then take them to some waste ground and release them but I later heard somewhere that you have to take them a mile or two away otherwise they will return !
Like 'homing pigeons'
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