Topic: Not a slug or snail in sight - but for how long?

[Stork]

Hi everybody,

Whilst my garden is overwhelmed with slugs and snails I have not seen a single one on my allotment.

My lettuces grow unmolested and my brassica seedlings romp away without a nibble, but I steadfastly refuse to celebrate. The hungry, slimy critters can't be far away can they?

My plot has been unused for about seven years and I spent the winter liberating it from the clutches of six foot high brambles and killer bind weed (not quite beaten the bindweed just yet). Is it normal for land that has lain fallow to be slug free?

I have not used any kind of slug control - they just don't seem to be around.

Having said that I am just about to disappear on holiday for a couple of weeks. I'll probably return to a plot stripped bare of anything edible. Boo hoo.

Stork.

[MrsKP]

perhaps they're all over at our plotties.

 ;D

[saddad]

Newly cleared plots can be reasonably clean in the mollusc dept. There are plenty of predators in the undergrowth and if the soil is not cultivated they tend to move out into tilled area to lay their eggs in the turned earth.
 :'(