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over a year ago
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Ok- who has green fingers and help me out please?
Some little fucker is eating my pepper plants and my strawberries.
What pet friendly tips have you got please to stop little pests enjoying MY veg....
Kx |
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"Ok- who has green fingers and help me out please?
Some little fucker is eating my pepper plants and my strawberries.
What pet friendly tips have you got please to stop little pests enjoying MY veg....
Kx"
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Egg shells.
Crumple them up and spread them around the strawberries or any type of vegetable that you're growing.
I've don't this for the past year or so in my vegetable beds and not had many slugs.
Also the egg shells are great nutritious for the soil.
Killing two slugs with one egg shell
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"Egg shells.
Crumple them up and spread them around the strawberries or any type of vegetable that you're growing.
I've don't this for the past year or so in my vegetable beds and not had many slugs.
Also the egg shells are great nutritious for the soil.
Killing two slugs with one egg shell
Ss "
Ooooh and I love eating eggs- would Cadbury’s or Thornton’s work best? |
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In 8 years we've never seen a slug or snail in the garden, we think it's due to having hedgehogs at the bottom of the garden and lots of birds, is there anything you can do to encourage these into the garden?
Ginger |
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"Egg shells.
Crumple them up and spread them around the strawberries or any type of vegetable that you're growing.
I've don't this for the past year or so in my vegetable beds and not had many slugs.
Also the egg shells are great nutritious for the soil.
Killing two slugs with one egg shell
Ss
Ooooh and I love eating eggs- would Cadbury’s or Thornton’s work best? "
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"In 8 years we've never seen a slug or snail in the garden, we think it's due to having hedgehogs at the bottom of the garden and lots of birds, is there anything you can do to encourage these into the garden?
Ginger "
Hi Ginger
We’re very fortunate to live in rural Devon where we have a whole host of wonderful wildlife that meanders and settles in our garden.... sadly including the little ones who find MY veg tasty... very very tasty....
Maybe I could make a straw hedgehog though?
Kx |
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I've never found anything that works apart from slug pellets.
Some recommend beer in a saucer, some put salt round the plants and others go out at dusk and pick every slug up.
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"In 8 years we've never seen a slug or snail in the garden, we think it's due to having hedgehogs at the bottom of the garden and lots of birds, is there anything you can do to encourage these into the garden?
Ginger
Hi Ginger
We’re very fortunate to live in rural Devon where we have a whole host of wonderful wildlife that meanders and settles in our garden.... sadly including the little ones who find MY veg tasty... very very tasty....
Maybe I could make a straw hedgehog though?
Kx"
We're rural too, apparently the hedgehogs eat slugs and snails, no idea if that's true or not?? Duck and Geese are supposed to eat them too.
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Hey, I recently got an allotment and was about to rip put a plant known as a hosta, they are fairly nice looking plants but slugs and snails love them, I was told by everyoneto leave it as 1)it looks nice and 2) it keeps the slugs away from the rest of your plants
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Best thing is putting a band of copper tape round the pots - can buy from B&Q, Amazon, the Range etc - the bigger the band the better it works - good luck x |
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Slugs don't like clambering over gravel, try covering your soil with gravel.
Alternatively get a pet duck, they love slugs n snails. OK they shit everywhere and can wreck destruction on your garden, but you won't have slugs anymore.
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All out warfare on the buggers. Crumpled egg shells, beer traps, salt, slug pellets, soot. We're all in for total war on the little and not so little buggers. They even went for my rhubarb! Just not on going for the rhubarb.
Up here we have the Morrison blood stone for dashing the brains out of the Macleods. Guess the next slug is going to find its way there. |
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"All out warfare on the buggers. Crumpled egg shells, beer traps, salt, slug pellets, soot. We're all in for total war on the little and not so little buggers. They even went for my rhubarb! Just not on going for the rhubarb.
Up here we have the Morrison blood stone for dashing the brains out of the Macleods. Guess the next slug is going to find its way there."
I agree the little shits! Who thinks they can steal your rhubarb?
War against them has begun in Devon too!
I’ll get the little bastards! |
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You can have physical barriers that deter or prevent slugs/snails from getting to your prized plants - including copper barriers, which trigger an electric shock, which doesn't kill them but they prefer not to have contact with it.
There are other granuled products that they won't go over too. Diatomaceous earth contains tiny sharp edges that they won't cross - I've not used this one.
The easy solution is to site your plants so that slugs can't cross from other plants onto your peppers. Ensure there's a distance and any barriers too. They'll prefer a cool, damper environment too, so if they don't have that, they'll not be lingering. If you remove any potential hiding spaces, it helps.
You can use Iron based materials - Iron Sulphate, I think, which will kill them  These are likely to be wild-life/pet safe, and degrade into the soil after.
You can use beer traps  , which attracts them - I haven't.
Review your set-up, tidy, no cool, damp hiding spots, keep things clear. Pick up the slugs and take them to a natural environment, where they can keep on living but not harming your plants. It needs to be a fair distance away, as slugs and snails especially are known for returning to an area. |
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"Ok- who has green fingers and help me out please?
Some little fucker is eating my pepper plants and my strawberries.
What pet friendly tips have you got please to stop little pests enjoying MY veg....
Kx"
dont water at night . Get a small pond so that frogs and other critters that like to eat slugs . Water in the mornings . Slugs like damp ground . |
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I don't advocate the use of metaldehyde slug/snail pellets, as they have a harmful reputation, that's probably well deserved. As I mentioned, the Iron based pellets, also now on sale, are much safer. It's Iron Phosphate, not Sulphate btw. |
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Another option I've used in bad slug years is a natural microscopic Nematode - these animals are natural predators to slugs and you add them to your garden, where they seek them down and kill them. If you search for them online, you'll find suppliers and some more information.
They are a good option if it's hard to protect your plants in other ways, such as with barriers. |
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"Slugs don't like clambering over gravel, try covering your soil with gravel.
Alternatively get a pet duck, they love slugs n snails. OK they shit everywhere and can wreck destruction on your garden, but you won't have slugs anymore.
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I've seen slugs climb up pebble dashing to the upstairs level of a house. |
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"Slugs don't like clambering over gravel, try covering your soil with gravel.
Alternatively get a pet duck, they love slugs n snails. OK they shit everywhere and can wreck destruction on your garden, but you won't have slugs anymore.
I've seen slugs climb up pebble dashing to the upstairs level of a house. "
Yep! They crawl across the concrete floor of my greenhouse, up the side of the wooden structure in the garden, across gravel, cling to the side of the cat and crawl across the carpet when they drop off him indoors. I reckon slugs will survive a nuclear winter along with the cockroaches. |
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"Have you tried reasoning with them?
Yeah but they're cantakerous, stubborn little buggers and don't listen.
Sounds like my ex "
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall once employed a couple to communicate with the mice who were bothering him. It worked! |
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The two methods I found that worked well were beer traps & companion planting (hostas are good for this). Didn't find the copper tape/wire any good at all here |
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"Have you tried reasoning with them?
Yeah but they're cantakerous, stubborn little buggers and don't listen.
Sounds like my ex
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall once employed a couple to communicate with the mice who were bothering him. It worked! "
I am soooo googling that! Thanks for sharing |
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Have a look on Amazon for slug traps. There about 20 quid for 2
Put them in your yard and fill them with lager.
Might sound like a joke but you'll catch a shit load of them. I had them in my yard |
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"Have a look on Amazon for slug traps. There about 20 quid for 2
Put them in your yard and fill them with lager.
Might sound like a joke but you'll catch a shit load of them. I had them in my yard"
£20! Can't you just cut the bottom of a plastic bottle off |
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"The two methods I found that worked well were beer traps & companion planting (hostas are good for this). Didn't find the copper tape/wire any good at all here"
I always feel so sad for the hostas,left all holey and ragged. |
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"Have a look on Amazon for slug traps. There about 20 quid for 2
Put them in your yard and fill them with lager.
Might sound like a joke but you'll catch a shit load of them. I had them in my yard
£20! Can't you just cut the bottom of a plastic bottle off"
Could do. Think they might be cheaper actually. It was a few years ago I bought them |
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