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29-06-2019, 04:05 PM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

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Yep, Sorry. I didn’t realise that the gardeners above had already mentioned this....sorry ladies.
I have a dog, a Yorkie called Fang der Wunderhund...I use pellets because I grow a lot of dahlias, both in the ground and in pots and never had any problem with the hound eating them.
With regard to pellets, you don’t need mounds of them next to your plants, just a scattering along the bed, plot border or pot.
It works for me, and Fang


Thanks for that.
It was just when the Nurseries said they smell when wetted that I thought it might encourage their snouts to investigate.

The youngest one picks up everything she finds, brings it indoors, and either eats it, or hides it in her bed. Your Fang is probably more sensible.
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29-06-2019, 04:13 PM
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Fang is thicker than whale blubber....but he has his uses..he broke the fall of my camera this morning, I was taking some shots of the sparras on the bird feeder with a long lens, one leg of the tripod collapsed, camera and lens were stopped from hitting the patio by a sleeping Wunderhund....he was not impressed.
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29-06-2019, 04:18 PM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

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Fang is thicker than whale blubber....but he has his uses..he broke the fall of my camera this morning, I was taking some shots of the sparras on the bird feeder with a long lens, one leg of the tripod collapsed, camera and lens were stopped from hitting the patio by a sleeping Wunderhund....he was not impressed.

Poor little mite - him, not you
Bet it frightened the life out of him.

How's your Dahlia's doing this year?
Do you find much difference in progress of potted ones and ground planted?
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29-06-2019, 04:58 PM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

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Poor little mite - him, not you
Bet it frightened the life out of him.

How's your Dahlia's doing this year?
Do you find much difference in progress of potted ones and ground planted?
It made him jump but he forgave me. The potted dahlias that were overwintered in the green and only came out at the beginning of this month are doing well, flower heads forming.
The others in the ground are getting quite bushy and about two weeks behind, so not a great deal of difference.
I don’t bother lifting and storing the tubers anymore the winters are warmer now and most of them survive.
I only lift those tubers that I want to propagate from.
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29-06-2019, 07:55 PM
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[QUOTE=Rehab44;1735375]It made him jump but he forgave me. The potted dahlias that were overwintered in the green and only came out at the beginning of this month are doing well, flower heads forming.
The others in the ground are getting quite bushy and about two weeks behind, so not a great deal of difference.
I don’t bother lifting and storing the tubers anymore the winters are warmer now and most of them survive.
I only lift those tubers that I want to propagate from.

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You can see your real name when using google photos rehab.
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You can see your real name when using google photos rehab.
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29-06-2019, 09:34 PM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

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It made him jump but he forgave me. The potted dahlias that were overwintered in the green and only came out at the beginning of this month are doing well, flower heads forming.
The others in the ground are getting quite bushy and about two weeks behind, so not a great deal of difference.
I don’t bother lifting and storing the tubers anymore the winters are warmer now and most of them survive.
I only lift those tubers that I want to propagate from.


Thanks for that.
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30-06-2019, 06:55 AM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

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Fang is thicker than whale blubber....but he has his uses..he broke the fall of my camera this morning, I was taking some shots of the sparras on the bird feeder with a long lens, one leg of the tripod collapsed, camera and lens were stopped from hitting the patio by a sleeping Wunderhund....he was not impressed.
I bet he was pleased to know that as well as chief houseguard and companion, he also has a secondary rôle as a falling-camera cushion!
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30-06-2019, 10:23 AM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

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I bet he was pleased to know that as well as chief houseguard and companion, he also has a secondary rôle as a falling-camera cushion!
I don’t think it’s a position he wants full time
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30-06-2019, 02:42 PM
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Re: Organic Slug & Snail Repellent

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I don’t think it’s a position he wants full time

Perhaps you should pay him a bit more then.
 
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