On 5/19/04 6:46 AM, in article , "Jane
Ransom" wrote:

In article , Mariann
writes

I have a wander in the garden every evening with a bucket ... put all the
snails ans slugs I find in the bucket carefully and take them to the nearby
field ...so far none has made it back ..as far as I know ...

Some years ago someone on this group tried an experiment. He painted the
shells of snails a conspicuous colour and then chucked them as far over
his hedge as he could hurl them. They were back in the garden in a
couple of days!!!!!!
Hummm....could it be that the neighbour was throwing them back???
Gary
Fort Langley BC
Canada

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On Mon, 24 May 2004 06:41:03 GMT, gary davis
wrote:

On 5/19/04 6:46 AM, in article , "Jane
Ransom" wrote:

In article , Mariann
writes

I have a wander in the garden every evening with a bucket ... put all the
snails ans slugs I find in the bucket carefully and take them to the nearby
field ...so far none has made it back ..as far as I know ...

Some years ago someone on this group tried an experiment. He painted the
shells of snails a conspicuous colour and then chucked them as far over
his hedge as he could hurl them. They were back in the garden in a
couple of days!!!!!!
Hummm....could it be that the neighbour was throwing them back???

or painting snails and throwing them over the fence too? :-)

On 5/24/04 12:58 AM, in article ,
"martin" wrote:

On Mon, 24 May 2004 06:41:03 GMT, gary davis
wrote:

On 5/19/04 6:46 AM, in article , "Jane
Ransom" wrote:

In article , Mariann
writes

I have a wander in the garden every evening with a bucket ... put all the
snails ans slugs I find in the bucket carefully and take them to the nearby
field ...so far none has made it back ..as far as I know ...

Some years ago someone on this group tried an experiment. He painted the
shells of snails a conspicuous colour and then chucked them as far over
his hedge as he could hurl them. They were back in the garden in a
couple of days!!!!!!
Hummm....could it be that the neighbour was throwing them back???

or painting snails and throwing them over the fence too? :-)
Now that would be very funny.
I heard a story that is not a gardening story but does (maybe) relate to the
same, or similar, scenario as above.
This is a story "Made In Canada" by...I don't know who. I heard about it
many years ago and cannot verify it's authenticy.
Two Canadian brothers, as I heard it, had their out house pushed over
every halloween and decided to stay up and watch, all night if necessary, to
catch the culprit.
They waited and waited but nothing happened so in the very early morning
they finally went to bed.
The next day they woke up to a turned over out house...
The second world war began and one of the brothers went overseas...he
never came back and the outhouse was never turned over since! I am sure that
the brother 'lost' is still grinning...just like the painting neighbour!
Happy Gardening All
Gary
Fort Langley BC
Canada

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"Vicky" wrote in message
...
How can I get rid of the little gits that keep eating my lettuce plants -
an
inch high and eaten overnight. :-(

I don't want to use pellets so what alternatives are there apart from not
growing lettuce?

Vicky


Good for you. Slug pellets are nasty things and I for one am convinced that
they kill hedgehogs by secondary poisoning.
Try this.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourc...c+slug+control

Martin wrote:

Vicky wrote:
How can I get rid of the little gits that keep eating my lettuce
plants - an inch high and eaten overnight. :-(

I don't want to use pellets so what alternatives are there apart from
not growing lettuce?

Vicky

Theakston's Old Peculiar in a shallow bowl. Or indeed any other beer you may
have lying around.

See earlier thread.

I vouch for Tesco cheapest bitter if you can't find a publican willing
to give you the barrel ends for free. I bought proper slug/snail traps
from a garden centre, heavy green plastic pots to be sunk in the ground,
with removable lids so you can see what you've caught and whether the
trap needs emptying. I think the big rectangular traps have entrances
too small for well-grown snails. Whatever you use, be certain to leave a
twig or something as a ladder out of the beer otherwise ground beetles
will also drown in it -- and they're your friends, because they eat
slugs.

I've tried the cat-litter-inna-box sold as slug deterrent, it didn't
deter them. They didn't seem that bothered by the wood ash and sawdust,
either. Best permanent deterrent I've found is a sharp knife wielded by
torchlight on a damp night. Has anyone else seen the thing like giant
forceps with a torch attached to allow people to wander around picking
up slugs at night? Sells for c. UKP13?

regards
sarah




--
Think of it as evolution in action.

On Wed, 19 May 2004 12:33:51 +0100, "Vicky"
wrote:

How can I get rid of the little gits that keep eating my lettuce plants - an
inch high and eaten overnight. :-(

I don't want to use pellets so what alternatives are there apart from not
growing lettuce?

Vicky


Hello,

I hope you read this message, although it is some time ago that you
started your question.

I can recommend a so called slug fence, it stays for many years in
your garden. It is a galvanized metal strips (and corner pieces) which
prevent slugs from entering your vegetable patch (or flower bed), so
you don't need slug pellets in this part of your garden.

(there is a website www.slugfence.com)

I tested this in my garden and it helps ...!

Bettina