On Sun, 30 May 2004 13:18:34 +0200, martin wrote:

On Sun, 30 May 2004 12:13:13 +0100, Gwenhyffar Milgi
wrote:

On Sat, 29 May 2004 22:27:27 +0100, "tuin man"
wrote:


"Gwenhyffar Milgi" wrote in message
...
Ok, strange one here.

My slugs are ignoring the lettuce and instead eating the spinach.


How considerate of them. Would they like some salt with it?
I once attempted to distract them on an allottemt by using cress to feed
them. At first it didn't work. And then it did... but by that stage there
wasn't much else left for them )-:

Well, problem is I planted the lettuce (loads and loads of it), hoping
it would keep them away from the rest. There's only two of us, and I
just sowed 4 rows of tightly sown lettuce hoping they'd stay away from
anything else and gorge themselves on lettuce.

Sigh. Now I have loads and loads of lettuce, and no spinach, which I
really really like.

How much spinach did you plant?

4 rows, tightly spaced, a whole packet full. They got them just as
soon as leaves started appearing. Now I have 3 plants left with I've
just left, as it seems to distract the slugs from other plants, and
they're about to bloom at the moment. No use for eating, but at least
they can be the distraction now.


--
"My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night
but ah my foes and oh my friends -- it gives a lovely light"