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

"Vicky" wrote in message
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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



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 ...
I hate to kill little life's

why don't you want pellets, they're the best answer


"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

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

"Oxymel_of_Squill" wrote in message
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why don't you want pellets, they're the best answer



Because I'm a bit wary of anything that tells me it's highly dangerous to
children and pets

Vicky

"Martin" wrote in message
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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.

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.

Duncan

SNIP

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.

Indeed! I was only teasing.

;)

Martin

SNIP

I've tried all the usuals - picking them, beer traps but I have had too many
until recent years ...

Wilkos (and garden centres) sell 'animal friendly' slug killer. The white
granules come in a plastic pack and they say they are safe for animals and
kids and they don't need to be kept away.

Result - only 1 slug sighted in the garden last night.

HTH

Lee.


"Vicky" wrote in message
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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

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!!!!!!

--
Jane Ransom in Lancaster.
I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg
but if you need to email me for any other reason, put ransoms
at jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see

"Jane Ransom" wrote in message
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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!!!!!!


I suspect you are right and they come back ..there couldn't possibly be
that many every night otherwise ... I don't really mind too much as long as
they leave my nice plants and eat only the weed ...sigh...

"D Russell" wrote in message
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"Martin" wrote in message
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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

I never used slug pellets until this stuff came along:

http://www.organiccatalog.com/catalo...1_179&products
_id=1821

Regards,

Stuart Forbes

(sw) wrote in news:1ge1if3.10k3gbznqk8keN%
:

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.

Here's a question - why do the traps need to be shallow - groundbeetle
level ?

I've tried just jamjars sitting on the surface, and slugs seem to be able
to climb into those ok.

Would I catch more slugs if I sank them into the ground ?


Victoria
--
gardening on a north-facing hill
in South-East Cornwall
--

Victoria Clare wrote:

(sw) wrote in news:1ge1if3.10k3gbznqk8keN%
:

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.

Here's a question - why do the traps need to be shallow - groundbeetle
level ?

I've tried just jamjars sitting on the surface, and slugs seem to be able
to climb into those ok.

Would I catch more slugs if I sank them into the ground ?

It could be that slugs are lazy, and tend to give up the ascent up the
side of the jamjar in favour of a convenient seedling, but I think
perhaps like most inverts they prefer not to be extremely exposed (as
they would be on the side of a jam jar) for too long. Try sinking some
and see?

regards
sarah


--
Think of it as evolution in action.

"Martin" wrote in message
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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.

The concept of "beer lying around" does not exist.

Franz