Topic: b*****s

[GREENWIZARD]

  >:(

[Marianne]

Oh gawwwwwwd! will have to go out in the garden right now - just remembered I have taken cuttings of my delphiniums and left them out on the patio !! :o :o :o  If I don't go, there will be nothing left !

[quinny]

I was out last night and there was a whole mob of them hanging about looking real tough.  Slopping about so they were, quite the thing, like they owned the place.

Tomorrow though, I will unleash the Lidl slug traps!! Filled with the amber nectar home brew.  Glug, glug, glug - loadsa dead slugs!!!  I'll get a few for you guys as well...

[Marianne]

That's better ! Got them in the cold frame in the nick of time as they were already on the war path..... literally !  ;D

Thank god for A4A, without it, I would not have remembered ! LOL ???

[gavin]

Get 'em now before they lay eggs!  ;D ;D ;D

Good luck - Gavin

[Lillypad]

I found dozens of the little so and sos sheltering under phacelia (grown as a green manure). It was obviously a highly des. res. They seem to be very social blighters too - all cuddled up together!

I'm too squeamish to chop/drown them, but I did spinkle Slug Stoppa granules around. A good opportunity to try out this organic product? Has anyone else used it & was it successful?

Lillypad

[growmore]

If You don't like squishing them .Sprinkle a little salt on them and watch them melt ... 8)Jim

[Marianne]

Just had a clean up in the cold frame and found lots of little pearly things which I believe to be baby slugs as well as a mother ??? :o Squashed the lot and given to the birds.
There were lots under the pots too, they had stood on the patio for a long time last summer.

I am determined to hunt them down!
 >:( >:(

[moonbells]

I picked up the water tank at the lottie yesterday as the water's back on, and I thought I'd clean it before refilling.

I now know where all the snails were hiding overwinter.

Heh. CRUNCH!
Not any more they're not....

moonbells

[Marianne]

 ;) ;D :D

[Multiveg]

While I nipped outside to er fertilise the baytree (been reading a book on liquid gold), I saw a few slugs which have now been despatched to mollusc heaven.

[Marianne]

Just noticed a moutain of greenfly on my Ena Harkness climbing roses.  Got the water spray out and squashed the little devils to whence they came... ;D ;D

[Deleted]

Eight Lily Beetles munching merrily on my [few] lilies. Slugs and snails? Lost count.

[Mrs Ava]

Moving trays around in the greenhouse noticed something had started to graze my celery and a couple of sunflowers eated clean in 2.  Found a HUGE happy snail....not so happy now..........scrunch!!

[Multiveg]

They;ve been at my sunflowers as well  :'( :'(

[Marianne]

I have all my sunflower seedlings on the windowsills.  Will stick them in large pots when they are big enough to go out.  Don't like slugs ... >:(

[northener]

I put 4 sunflowers out last week the buggers have left me with one. i've protected this one with a 2"pot with no bottom in.