22-07-2014, 10:48 AM
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Blimming slugs & snails! Grrrr
Just paid a flying visit to the allotment and discovered all my khol rabies have not only been stripped of their leaves, but the root balls have been eaten into! (They had been in a small raises bed, under cover of a curtain. I'd obviously been very sparing in my use of slug pellets.)I am livid.
The payback team super had even praised them a week or so ago, saying how lovely they were doing.
I was hoping to enter some in our Produce Show on 14 Sep. no chance now.
22-07-2014, 08:20 PM
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Re: Blimming slugs & snails! Grrrr
Originally Posted by venus
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Ah I feel for you Jazzi...they are a damned nuisance, I too am sick of them. I read somewhere recently beer gets rid of them, don't know if this is true.
So I was told by a keen gardener.
23-07-2014, 02:12 AM
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Re: Blimming slugs & snails! Grrrr
Originally Posted by Jimmy
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They like beer, if you sink a pot in the soil with the top at ground level, then put a few inches of beer in, the slugs crawl down and drink the beer, then get drunk and fall in and drown.So I was told by a keen gardener.
23-07-2014, 09:00 AM
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Re: Blimming slugs & snails! Grrrr
Originally Posted by Jimmy
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They like beer, if you sink a pot in the soil with the top at ground level, then put a few inches of beer in, the slugs crawl down and drink the beer, then get drunk and fall in and drown.So I was told by a keen gardener.
23-07-2014, 09:45 AM
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Re: Blimming slugs & snails! Grrrr
Originally Posted by Jimmy
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They like beer, if you sink a pot in the soil with the top at ground level, then put a few inches of beer in, the slugs crawl down and drink the beer, then get drunk and fall in and drown.So I was told by a keen gardener.
They are always recommending beer traps in my gardening mags Jimmy. I suppose you'd have to keep checking them, to see they haven't dried up in the heat, or overflowed after rain. Don't use them myself because I think my youngest dog would get her snout in the beer! Don't use pellets for the same reason. I just patroll with a small plastic pot half full of salt water and drop the blighters in. Once they've deceased I tip 'em on the compost heap.
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