Author Topic: slugs..it's official (Read 5695 times)

manicscousers · « **on:** August 22, 2007, 08:09:59 »

I've just heard the news...slug population has doubled this year...I could've told them that, they're all on our plot..we've lost 5 out of our winter lettuce already..they're not even trying to hide, they're too big for the birds and frogs to eat..mind you, they can't swim in a water butt ;D ;D

saddad · « **Reply #1 on:** August 22, 2007, 08:11:50 »

My nematodes must be on overtime then... they like damp soil..
;D

manicscousers · « **Reply #2 on:** August 22, 2007, 08:14:18 »

hopefully the nematodes will carry n working all year, they're predicting the population will double again over autumn as the slugs breed then too !! :o

saddad · « **Reply #3 on:** August 22, 2007, 08:17:40 »

Don't want to speak to soon, but apart from my bottom lottie my slug damage has been minimal this year...
;D

manicscousers · « **Reply #4 on:** August 22, 2007, 08:32:13 »

told you, they've all emigrated to wigan ;D

robkb · « **Reply #5 on:** August 22, 2007, 08:57:44 »

Quote from: manicscousers on August 22, 2007, 08:32:13

told you, they've all emigrated to wigan ;D

Apart from the few million that have descended on South London! Grrr >:(

Cheers,
Rob ;)

Si D · « **Reply #6 on:** August 22, 2007, 12:09:07 »

millions in my garden as usual. but hardly any on the plot - i'm most surprised. Turned over a tarp that had been there, next to the salad leafs, for months and there were only three under it. very few of the leafs have any sign of munching .

tim · « **Reply #7 on:** August 22, 2007, 12:31:05 »

Nematodes - 6 weeks?

katynewbie · « **Reply #8 on:** August 22, 2007, 12:58:56 »

:-\

I zapped my tiny plot with nematodes two weeks ago, so far there does not seem to be too much difference, but at least I feel I have done something, and it didn't involve tiny blue pellets!

;)

cambourne7 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 22, 2007, 13:05:08 »

i put the little blue pellets down in flustration on friday evening, as they were everywhere when i went to the plot sunday there was no slug free space where i could stand where i was not standing on them.

I have found a couple of nests and have added more little blue pellets on top of the nest and around it. This is only the second time i have had such a problem i have had to put pellets down.

norfolklass · « **Reply #10 on:** August 22, 2007, 13:08:12 »

has anyone tried these organic slug pellets?
http://www.organiccatalog.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=61_179&products_id=1821

cambourne7 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 22, 2007, 13:38:36 »

Yes i have them for treating inside my raised beds, the paths i am using up the old non organic pellets.

norfolklass · « **Reply #12 on:** August 22, 2007, 13:45:18 »

do they work?!?

cambourne7 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 22, 2007, 13:46:24 »

woops should have said :o

Yes there ace and they last quite a while as well.

norfolklass · « **Reply #14 on:** August 22, 2007, 13:48:27 »

excellent!
<rubs hands together>

raisedbedted · « **Reply #15 on:** August 22, 2007, 13:49:17 »

I've had mixed results from them and actually think the growing success garlic granules deterrent / bio stimulant worked a bit better.

Bought the pellets from Homebase at about half the organic catalog price btw..

kt. · « **Reply #16 on:** August 22, 2007, 16:47:49 »

This topic was on my local radio station this morning - they reckoned the slug population is now in excess of 2.5 billion in this country.

My slug pellets are working a treat. Lots of dead slugs on a daily basis round my plot. There can never have too many dead slugs ;D ;D ;D

manicscousers · « **Reply #17 on:** August 22, 2007, 17:05:55 »

how come my garden success slug pellets didn't work then, ? I think they washed away in the heavy rain..twice I applied them last week and still lost 5 out of 12 lettuce >:(
btw I got them from the pound shop :)

plot76 · « **Reply #18 on:** August 22, 2007, 17:16:52 »

From the BBC news website today!!

Is the UK facing a slug plague?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6958259.stm

A bit worrying.

I use plastic drinking cups in the polytunnels and get a coffee jar of slops from my local every Friday, we have tried the lagers and are now working our way round the real ale's. Out side i use the slug traps with covers otherwise the beer gets watered down.

Works better inside than out, the slugs outside are too big now and down the beer in one and carry on eating the lettuce in a drunken stupor

www.plot76.info

norfolklass · « **Reply #19 on:** August 22, 2007, 17:29:30 »

read somewhere a brilliant tip for putting out slug pellets:

put them in a plastic container with a lid, like a little coleslaw tub or similar
cut an upside down T in the side, with the crossbar of the T level with the bottom of the tub
push in the flaps created so that creepy crawlies can get in but find it hard to get out again (like wasps and wasp traps)
put the slug pellets in, put on the lid, and put in the garden
the lid keeps the rain out, the tub keeps the pellets off the ground so no nasty chemicals wash into the soil, the slugs and snails can't get out of the tub because they're stupid, and hedgehogs, birds and small children can't get at the slug pellets

in theory!

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Author Topic: slugs..it's official (Read 5695 times)