On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:25:08 GMT, FF wrote:

Hi all,

I just got back from the Xmas break and found the tiny baby cabbages I spaced out
around a month ago have mostly been munched. Some are saveable, I think. My guess is
the culprits are slugs or snails, but I can't find a single one!

This is the first year I've grown cabbage and only the second year I've grown
anything. What should I do to save what remains, please? Will a squirt of dilute
detergent do the trick, as it did with aphids in the summer? Is it any good to go out
there with a torch at night and hunt doen the varmints by hand? (It's jolly cold out
there tonight!!)

Thanks for your help and advice,

Liz

Thanks for all the responses. I've been out to have a good look and I'm not at all
sure it's pigeons. Some of the leaves are stripped right back to the vein but I can't
see any peck marks. Other leaves just have the sort of round holes I associate with
slugs and snails. I plan to do the thing with the cotton and the CDs anyway and keep
an eagle eye out for sluggies too.

Thanks again, and a Happy New Year!

Liz