I normally manage to happily ignore slugs and snails EXCEPT at his time of
year when they massacre seedlings or
my Cardiocrinums which only come into leaf for a few months and just sit
there and get eaten down to the bulb before they can put on food for the
following year.

I know about night treks to garden with torch and beer traps etc. I also
use half pop bottles as temporary cloches.
I refuse to use slug pellets.
In the past I have used Aluminium sulphate as it sounded innocent
organic/environment wise.
I have also heard of Iron phosphate??? (or did I mishear that).
Anyone got an opinion on either OR know anything else that works.
I have tried gravel and it just slows them down slightly.

My default is to going to be to use teh cloches for teh greenhouse (tomato
seedlings) and the alu sulphate in the flower bed unless anyone has a better
idea.

Des (Dublin near the sea)

you can use nemotypes (sp?) from places like green gardener. I've found that
this works but you have to do it after teh frosts i think.

--
Hayley
(gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset)

"H Ryder" wrote in message
...
you can use nemotypes (sp?) from places like green gardener. I've found
that
this works but you have to do it after teh frosts i think.

green gardener?
ahhhh
http://www.greengardener.co.uk/
kewl!
thanks for that


--
Hayley
(gardening on well drained, alkaline clay in Somerset)

Des Higgins wrote:
I normally manage to happily ignore slugs and snails EXCEPT at his time of
year when they massacre seedlings or
my Cardiocrinums which only come into leaf for a few months and just sit
there and get eaten down to the bulb before they can put on food for the
following year.

With choice plants I get an empty 1 ltr or 2ltr plastic bottle ( Coke or the like)
and cut off the top and bottom.What's left acts as a sleeve which can be
removed
if you wish when the plant grows large (e.g.delphiniums,sunflowers),or
left on if
surrounding plants conceal it.It is free,non-poisonous,and usually
successful.

Sam