Sacha wrote:
On 2009-07-13 16:30:11 +0100, "Ophelia" said:


"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2009-07-13 15:02:32 +0100, "Ophelia"
said:

"David in Normandy" wrote in
message ...
Frank Booth Snr wrote:

If you want to deter slugs from getting to your clematis, just
sprinkle plenty of sharp grit around the the base of the plant
to form a barrier. Slugs hate crawling over anything sharp or
rough-edged.

I think this idea of deterring slugs and snails with grit or
rough edged stones / egg shells etc is over-rated. Either that or
the little critters
here in France are mean and hard. S.A.S. Slugs.

lol oh dear. When I read this, I had a vision of the slugs
parachuting in))

You mean nobody's told you...........? ;-)

Noooooooooooooo! Perhaps I ought to have consulted David or
Ray....................................

They're devils, those Paras! ;-)

True! I am just having a think about the 'slug' paras