On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:06:35 +0100, Dave
wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:50:33 +0100, "auntie_biotic"
wrote:

Hope I can get some advice. Slugs are eating my young plants, in particular
my "Shoo fly". I have been using blue slug pellets. I cannot use them
anymore as a hedgehog is eating the slugs during the night and I do not wish
to poison it.

My question is how can I stop slugs eating my plants or should I just put up
with damage as part of nature.
Thanks in advance

Sand, ash netting etc can all be used successfully. Like anything,
keeping bugs off your plants is like gardening, hard work and needing
constant attention. Working with nature is by far the most
satisfactory form of gardening.

If you have a bonfire collect a little of the ash and spread it around
your plants. Slugs and snails hate it!


Very good tip and works a treat.

People need to bear in mind, nature in it's beauty is not a perfect
form and never meant to be. Kill the natural side of gardening and it
really is pointless.

Why they let retards out into the gardening world I'll never
understand, if gardening really is such a problem why don't they just
look at pictures?







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to wear noisy little bells on clothes and carry pepper spray. Also watch
for signs of activity: Black bear scat is smaller and contains berries;
grizzly scat has little bells in it and smells like pepper.