Thread: pansy assassin
View Single Post
  #13   Report Post  
Old 10-11-2008, 07:33 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Rusty_Hinge Rusty_Hinge is offline
external usenet poster
 
First recorded activity by GardenBanter: Oct 2008
Posts: 208
Default pansy assassin

The message

from Judith in France contains these words:
On Nov 10, 3:57 pm, Rusty_Hinge
wrote:
The message

from Judith in France contains these words:

I tried organic methods, once, of getting rid keeping slugs and snails
off my plants in pots, but, they were in the soil, I handpicked
several times but they still came back and I resorted to slug
pellets. On my parents grave, I have an awful problem when putting
fresh flowers there, within a couple of days they are almost eaten!
They are buried in a lovely old flint walled churchyard and I don't
like to throw green pellets around, any tips???


Throw blue ones?

D&RFC


I tried egg shells Rusty, that was a waste of time.


Try some copper filings.

I'm syre you can get hold of a piece of copper water pipe. Grip in a
vice and poke it through a sheet of paper or polythene, then tape it in
place.

Acquire a nice coarse ******* file and make as many filings as you need
to sprinkle round the plants. That should take care of things for a
while, anyway.

--
Rusty
Direct reply to: horrid dot squeak snailything zetnet point co period uk
Separator in search of a sig