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What works to get rid of them? They are eating my cabbage.


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What works to get rid of them? They are eating my cabbage.


Pick them off & dispose of them

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What works to get rid of them? They are eating my cabbage.


Pick them off & dispose of them

into a bucket and then pour boiling water on them :-))

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What works to get rid of them? They are eating my cabbage.


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Don't worry, T
they'll perish in the cooking process.

Alternatively go out on a damp evening with a torch and a salt cellar and
you'll be able to dispatch hundreds of slugs and snails.


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What works to get rid of them? They are eating my cabbage.

Please do not tell anyone, but I use slug pellets, and they are quite
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What works to get rid of them? They are eating my cabbage.

Diatom powder.

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