"tenchman" wrote in message
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Hi group,
How I love my home grown sprouts, yet every year I spend hours keeping the
caterpillars at bay, and come to this time of year when I start
harvesting,
(just enough for a meal each time) I find that the best of the sprouts
have
been grazed.

I assumed that is was being done by slugs, yet I never see them on the
plants, I've put down slug pellets and there is little sign of dead
slugs,
and the grazing continues, just enough to make the sprouts un-appetising.
and I end up dumping more that I get.

Is this a common occurrence? do all sprout growers suffer? Has anyone a
cure?

My thanks to all those that take the time to reply.

David



Well, I picked my first sprouts yesterday and found that many of them had
been nibbled. I noticed that it is worse at the bottom of the plant and gets
less of a problem higher up. When I was preparing the sprouts I found a few
slugs actually inside little cavities that they had eaten out. Thankfully,
most of the sprouts had developed enough to salvage a decent few meals out
of them even after throwing away the outer layers. The slugs were the tiny
creamy/white ones that I'm convinced do not eat pellets!!

Anyway, any control suggestions would be appreciated here as well.

Kase



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