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Advice needed
Hope I can get some advice. Slugs are eating my young plants, in particular
my "Shoo fly". I have been using blue slug pellets. I cannot use them anymore as a hedgehog is eating the slugs during the night and I do not wish to poison it. My question is how can I stop slugs eating my plants or should I just put up with damage as part of nature. Thanks in advance -- auntie_biotic T B and U http://www.tbandu.co.uk |
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"auntie_biotic" wrote in message ... Hope I can get some advice. Slugs are eating my young plants, in particular my "Shoo fly". I have been using blue slug pellets. I cannot use them anymore as a hedgehog is eating the slugs during the night and I do not wish to poison it. My question is how can I stop slugs eating my plants or should I just put up with damage as part of nature. Thanks in advance Put plenty of sharp sand around your plants as if it were a mulch. Out as far as 6" from the base of each plant is probably overdoing it slightly, but you'd be sure to spare the plants (sharp sand is cheap enough!) and you'll leave the slugs in a fit state for the hedgehogs to eat. :-) -- Brian "Stuck down a hole, in the fog, in the middle of the night, with an owl." |
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My best advice to you is just go out with torch between 12AM and 2 Am and
collect them. When we first moved here we were collecting 20 to 30 slugs per night for about a week and then problem has gone. "auntie_biotic" wrote in message ... Hope I can get some advice. Slugs are eating my young plants, in particular my "Shoo fly". I have been using blue slug pellets. I cannot use them anymore as a hedgehog is eating the slugs during the night and I do not wish to poison it. My question is how can I stop slugs eating my plants or should I just put up with damage as part of nature. Thanks in advance -- auntie_biotic T B and U http://www.tbandu.co.uk |
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"auntie_biotic" wrote in message ... Hope I can get some advice. Slugs are eating my young plants, in particular my "Shoo fly". I have been using blue slug pellets. I cannot use them anymore as a hedgehog is eating the slugs during the night and I do not wish to poison it. My question is how can I stop slugs eating my plants or should I just put up with damage as part of nature. Thanks in advance -- auntie_biotic T B and U http://www.tbandu.co.uk I have heard they like beer - if you leave a saucer or buried bowl with beer in, they can't resist, and drown. Don't know what the hedgehog would think to snail in ale though. Bob |
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"auntie_biotic" wrote in message ... Hope I can get some advice. Slugs are eating my young plants, in particular my "Shoo fly". I have been using blue slug pellets. I cannot use them anymore as a hedgehog is eating the slugs during the night and I do not wish to poison it. My question is how can I stop slugs eating my plants or should I just put up with damage as part of nature. Thanks in advance Sink a jar half filled with beer and drown them, surround the base of the plant with salt or crushed eggshells or sharp sand or go out at night with a torch and pick them off and squish them. |
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"auntie_biotic" wrote in message ... Hope I can get some advice. Slugs are eating my young plants, in particular my "Shoo fly". I have been using blue slug pellets. I cannot use them anymore as a hedgehog is eating the slugs during the night and I do not wish to poison it. My question is how can I stop slugs eating my plants or should I just put up with damage as part of nature. Thanks in advance Sink a jar half filled with beer and drown them, surround the base of the plant with salt or crushed eggshells or sharp sand or go out at night with a torch and pick them off and squish them. |
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Read somewhere that broken egg shells spread around the plants stop slugs.
Something to do with them not going over sharp objects.Suppose sharp sand acts in the same way. Denis G. "Bob Smith" wrote in message ... "auntie_biotic" wrote in message ... Hope I can get some advice. Slugs are eating my young plants, in particular my "Shoo fly". I have been using blue slug pellets. I cannot use them anymore as a hedgehog is eating the slugs during the night and I do not wish to poison it. My question is how can I stop slugs eating my plants or should I just put up with damage as part of nature. Thanks in advance -- auntie_biotic T B and U http://www.tbandu.co.uk I have heard they like beer - if you leave a saucer or buried bowl with beer in, they can't resist, and drown. Don't know what the hedgehog would think to snail in ale though. Bob |
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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:50:33 +0100, "auntie_biotic"
wrote: Hope I can get some advice. Slugs are eating my young plants, in particular my "Shoo fly". I have been using blue slug pellets. I cannot use them anymore as a hedgehog is eating the slugs during the night and I do not wish to poison it. Ditto with the shoo-fly. If you don't mind using chemicals, there is some stuff you water on, (called, I think, Slugit). It has been effective on my hostas and I don't think it will affect the hedgehogs. You would need to read the label before using it. It is a milky liquid that you mix in a can of water. Pam in Bristol |
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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:50:33 +0100, "auntie_biotic"
wrote: Hope I can get some advice. Slugs are eating my young plants, in particular my "Shoo fly". I have been using blue slug pellets. I cannot use them anymore as a hedgehog is eating the slugs during the night and I do not wish to poison it. My question is how can I stop slugs eating my plants or should I just put up with damage as part of nature. Thanks in advance If you have a bonfire collect a little of the ash and spread it around your plants. Slugs and snails hate it! |
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:06:35 +0100, Dave
wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:50:33 +0100, "auntie_biotic" wrote: Hope I can get some advice. Slugs are eating my young plants, in particular my "Shoo fly". I have been using blue slug pellets. I cannot use them anymore as a hedgehog is eating the slugs during the night and I do not wish to poison it. My question is how can I stop slugs eating my plants or should I just put up with damage as part of nature. Thanks in advance Sand, ash netting etc can all be used successfully. Like anything, keeping bugs off your plants is like gardening, hard work and needing constant attention. Working with nature is by far the most satisfactory form of gardening. If you have a bonfire collect a little of the ash and spread it around your plants. Slugs and snails hate it! Very good tip and works a treat. People need to bear in mind, nature in it's beauty is not a perfect form and never meant to be. Kill the natural side of gardening and it really is pointless. Why they let retards out into the gardening world I'll never understand, if gardening really is such a problem why don't they just look at pictures? To avoid grizzlies, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game advises hikers to wear noisy little bells on clothes and carry pepper spray. Also watch for signs of activity: Black bear scat is smaller and contains berries; grizzly scat has little bells in it and smells like pepper. |
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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:50:33 +0100, "auntie_biotic"
wrote: Hope I can get some advice. Slugs are eating my young plants, in particular my "Shoo fly". I have been using blue slug pellets. I cannot use them anymore as a hedgehog is eating the slugs during the night and I do not wish to poison it. My question is how can I stop slugs eating my plants or should I just put up with damage as part of nature. Thanks in advance Last week I started putting orange peel in my garden. Now at night when I shine my torch over the garden, all the slugs and snails are eating the pith and leaving my plants alone. -- "My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night but ah my foes and oh my friends -- it gives a lovely light" |
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