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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Gritgrit on September 11, 2009, 13:25:04
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I have planted some baby Winter cabbage plants on my allotment, and although I have a cage of netting over them they are still being eaten! Can anyone help as I beginning to despair ???as it happened to my first batch I planted too and they all ended up just stalks poking out the ground! :'(
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It could be slugs or snails.
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Yes snails or slugs,try going out in the wet to pick them off or at night.Put beer in a cup sunk into the ground.Surround them with coffee used beans.
Hate slug pellets because they damage so much of the wild life.
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Or nemaslug..expensive but it works.
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Thank you for all your replies! Do you think it would be OK to cut some plastic bottles in half and cover the cabbages? Would this stop them, or would i damage the cabbages growth? Sorry, I am just starting out and everything is still a mystery!
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I put netting over my collys, I think 15mm mesh but I found the butterflies can still fly through, and lay their eggs.
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Next year Gritgtit, bring them on in pots and plant them as ' near cabbages ' ,
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help you now, ;)
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AKAIK, the iron phosphate slug pellets are not harmful to other wildlife.
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I know it's not me......
as been as they are covered, try some slug pellets... just a few and see if there's anything there in the morning. You can remove the dead slugs to stop them being eateby wildlife?