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Old 04-07-2007, 08:44 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Too many seedlings
In reply to K ) who wrote this in
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Mary Fisher writes

"Uncle Marvo" wrote in message
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Don't suppose anyone wants about 200 lupins?

No idea what colour they are, but they all germinated, all grew on,
and are now in peat pots with the roots growing through.

I think I'll put them in the woods and see what happens.

I like lupins - they're from my childhood - but when I tried to grow
them here they suffered enormous grey aphids.


I like them, but they're slug-fodder.

I'm now trying to grow one in the slug-free environment of the
greenhouse. Ridiculous.

If it's in a pot, it is ridiculously easy to keep slugs/snails off.

Vaseline round the pot
Soot from the fire
Slug pellets
Nematode worms
Hedgehogs
Shotgun

.... the list is endless.



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