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slug control
"D Russell" wrote in message ... "Martin" wrote in message ... 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. Martin Yea nip to your local pub, ask them for some old beer either from cleaning the pipes or from the drip trays, put this in tubs with lids on, and holes about an inch up the sides. I find old ice cream tubs are perfect for this. You can put a 1cm wide hole, 1 inch up from the ground and still put a fair amount of old beer in it. As for using "Old Peculiar" that's got to be sacriligeous surely, I mean John Smiths find, but Old Peculiar, no no no far too nice for the slugs. And what, if I may ask, is wrong with John Smith's? This does work a treat, doesn't poison frogs, hedgehogs, thrushes, and all the other wildlife that actually may eat slugs themselves anyway, so vastly superior to using pellets. Also if you get the drip tray beer, it's very much cheaper too. I'd rather drink the beer and give the slugs pellets. Franz |
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