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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: flossy on June 13, 2009, 18:21:02

Title: Food for thought ?
Post by: flossy on June 13, 2009, 18:21:02

   Slugs !     :P

   Bit late now, but often wondered if a ' food barrier  '  would  be more effective than

   -- pellets etc to deter slugs  ?          Why not a row of lettuce, or the like - sown as a

   food barrier to sow round the runner beans,   give 'em a good feed and when they are

  stuffed  they won't want the  ' chosen ' crops ?

  -- anyone tried it ?


   floss xxx

Title: Re: Food for thought ?
Post by: grannyjanny on June 13, 2009, 18:30:17

That sounds the same as planting nasturtians near broad beans so the nasturtians get the black fly instead of the B/B.

Title: Re: Food for thought ?
Post by: carbonel11 on June 13, 2009, 18:34:01

I don't know if I believe in the idea of a sacrificial crop. Surely if you feed the blighters they will just breed more and more and wipe out more crops in the end?

Title: Re: Food for thought ?
Post by: flossy on June 13, 2009, 18:37:44

   It do , don't it grannyjanny,   [  bye the way, I'm '' nanny jan ''  --  any relation ? ]    ;D

   Does this go with companion planting then ,  only in a more sinister mode ?

   Always been experimental  [[   OK, OK,  you guys - do your worst !!  ]],   and am

   always looking for the alternative remody,  

   floss xxx

Title: Re: Food for thought ?
Post by: boltonlad on June 13, 2009, 19:05:38

If you want double the slugs next year then do the sacraficial crop thing otherwise use tried and tested slug pellets or nematodes.

Title: Re: Food for thought ?
Post by: flossy on June 13, 2009, 19:25:15

 

   Oh ,  forgot to say , do go on excursions at night to pick the blighters off !

   --   and down to the great sewage works they go !     Still feel , you know ---

    a bit awful,  but at least they still have a chance of coming up roses !


    floss xxx