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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: jewelflower on May 09, 2006, 20:08:51
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$%££"& **&*^^% **(&&^?@ SLUGS, @@{**&^&% @@^^&%$%£ SNAILS &&*^^&%%$£ my baby melons >:( , all my french marigold seedlings. :( >:( >:( >:( >:(
can you tell what's happened ::) ::) ::)
keeley
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Oh grue keeley :'( :'( :'(
Did you get the culprits?
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I expect you just said "Oh bother!!". How annoying, I did a bit of weeding this evening and found one or two of my flower plants had been eaten to ground level..
I was going to leave my melon and marigold seedlings out tonight but after reading your post they were put back in the greenhouse smartish!!
Hope you have got some back up seedlings.
Lorna
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Some times Planting out looks like the first day of the Somme when you look round a day or two later.... our regime of Nematodes, midnight hunting with a torch and slug stoppa granules and beer traps has just about brought it under control! after five years.... how I hate overgrown plots nearby but I will not resort to the little blue pellets.......
:'(
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Are those little blue pellets ok round veg we eat as they brake down in the end and go in the soil?
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Our garden faces south; our neighbours' garden opposite faces north. They have always had a problem with$%&^ slugs and snails, and we never have - until this year, that is. Daffs, hostas, a whole brunnera and alliums (or should that be allia?) have all been chomped in our garden and them opposite are loudly and gloatingly boasting slimy critter-free. Organic slug deterrent granules didn't do a thing. May yet have to resort to the dreaded blue pellets.
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I went out yesterday to do another basket and i found what was left of a petunia just a stalk where a plant used to be, Lorna of course i said " oh bother".
My Alliums have been really eaten badly, i also am moving towards using the little blue pellets , just waiting untill the birds have finished with the nestboxes to be on the safe side.
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Does anyone know of any pellets that are safe to other wild life (frogs/newts/birds) but work on slugs and snails?
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Rosyred, the blue pellets are (allegedly) safe for humans in the sense that we don't actually eat them whole. I can't really say what the hazards are when they break down into the soil and the residue is taken up by plants which we then eat (maybe someone else here knows?). The objection to using them is more about protecting wildlife. When birds, hedgehogs, slow worms (etc) eat poisoned slugs, they get poisoned in their turn. Also, some creatures will actually eat the pellets themselves. I use them (very sparingly - about a dozen pellets spread over one square metre) under enviromesh where the slugs can get at the pellets but other wildlife can't. My main way of controlling slugs is a nightly Slug Hunt (big jar of salty water, old kitchen tongs, goodnight Vienna...)
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We’ve been using ferric phosphate pellets. They are truly amazing. All our slugs are dead!
You can buy them in B&Q as “Growing Success Advanced Slug Killer”. They’re non-toxic to wildlife and they’re organically approved.
Has anyone else tried these? The results on our allotment have been spectacular.
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Thanks Cowpie ;D. Will try those before resorting to the blue ones.
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Yes. Growing Sucess worked well for me = they break down into fertilizer.
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Just started with the Advanced Slug stuff myself, they're brilliant!
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I might try that; the only place I use pellets is in my cold frames, and I don't even like doing that. One slug in a cold frame can do a lot of damage though.
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try kids lol my two go out in the day time moving the stuff in the garden and when they find a slug or snail they pop it in to a plastic box with lid and for every on they get they get a penny in there money box (cheep i know but they come back with at least 50p worth a day each ) we then put then out for the birds r give then to the lad down the road for his chicks they get 50p from him too this week alone they have made 2.50p they love it
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loulou two entrepreneurs in the family ;D?
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brilliant wheeze loulou! 8)
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The slugs around here are pretty ferocious and determined - planted out some courgettes, next morning this is what I found :( despite grit and a beer slug trap.
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They have now eaten 3 trays of my lettuces, and that was on the top of a 6ft plastic, holey shelf, do they come with grappling irons or summit??
Jenny you have my sincere sympathys. :(
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oh lordy jen those pictures are really harrowing, poor you :'( :'( :'(
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this morning, i have resorted to ............. salt.
i will worry about ph levels and other disadvantages later. 8)
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I am going to give the growing success ones a try too, my dads had his runner beans, beetroot and some lettuce eaten. we want some hot days to drive the slugs away. You would have thought that the slugs and snails would eat the weeds, theres plenty of them to go at.
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Tried to get some B&Q stuff today with no success :(
I was being soooooo smug, thinking my plottie looked the bizzo with all my planting out......................in 2 days the nasty little demons have polished off all my courgettes and marrows. I did buy some little blue pellets from Asda, but after reading on this thread what nasty things they must do to wildlife I will take them back and look again for more friendly stuff.
In the mean time it's back to the greenhouse..... :-\ :-\
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Well, the B&Q stuff works! ;D ;D ;D! The brunnera I thought had given up the ghost a month ago has just produced three mini unchomped leaves - there is life there yet ;D Thanks Cowpie et all.
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Try wilkos for the growing success stuff, I got some today, will be trying it on the lottie tomorrow if it doesnt rain heavily again
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Got some today, likewise, tomorrow will be D day weather permitting. :D
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we have resorted to assassination techniques.
Got pellets (nice ones) have used. I can not stand the dessimation any longer. >:( >:(
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Never had toooo much of a problem in my greenhouse. Tis sited on a slabbed area and the paths are all gravel, but of course, slugs and snails sneak in on pots etc....well....today, went to have a pot on session, and what do you know, 8 melon seedlings, gone! :'( Don't they know how much I struggle to get melons to germinate!!?? And right next to them, white acorn squash seedlings, untouched!
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what really gets to me is when they just munch through the stem AND DON'T EAT THE FLIPPING LEAVES, just behead them and leave, that is just plain nasty. >:(
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this morning, i have resorted to ............. salt.
i will worry about ph levels and other disadvantages later. 8)
Reading this post got me to thinking, is there anything you could buy or make that is a donut shape that could be put around the base of a plant and filled with coarse salt. The slugs and snails would have to crawl over the salt before reaching vulnerable seedlings. It would need a lid or cover of some sort to protect from rain otherwise the salt would wash into the soil. Lets all put our thinking caps on and come up with an A4a slug and snail destroyer. ;D