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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: Lupin on January 15, 2005, 20:53:48
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:'( :'(
Hello all,
I'm new on here & i don't know my way just yet also i feel unsure of how things are done,
I wonder if anybody can help me..we have a huge amount of Slugs in our Garden..i don't know how come we have Millions but we do,
How can i get rid of them? We have a Rabbit & i don't want to use pellets..
they can't come from next door as we have a 6ft wall all around.. i know they can climb I'm at the end of my rope now tried eggshells ..no good & they don't go near the Beer traps now..maybe one or two but not many ..PLEASE HELP
Thanks Lupin
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HI lupin i am sure you will get lots of advice re slugs from a4a members all i can suggest is what ive found works for me use copper tools re small tools as the slugs dislike the copper whereas metal seems to attract them also u can try garlic spray on produce and i have also found bird grit to be a great detterent too and also the extract of the yukka is said to be very effective too available as a spray .You will get many kinds of advice you have nothing to lose by trying them all happy growing
Ann-Marie ;)
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and if im honest in true evil fashion i would go out there armed with a very sharp stick and an evil glint hehe ;D :o
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Hugh was impressed by coffee as a slug inhibitor -try this link :
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/yabbse/index.php/topic,162.msg1913.html#msg1913
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Hi Maureen,
It's me, Sammy! Glad you have finally posted and welcome! :)
Try posting a hello on The Shed and let a few peeps know you are here :) xx
Sammy.
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Lupin, I feel for you! I have slugs the size of hippos! (OK it may be a slight exageration!!) The best thing I did to keep the population at bay was to install a pond in the garden, after having it for 5 years, the population in the garden has decreased dramatically, and we love to hear the frogs singing to each other! ;D
Now my plot on the other hand is a slug heaven! I oversow to allow for the loses! I also now start a lot more at home and wait until they are a fair size, to give them a bit of help, before they take their chances on the plot.
I have a small prefabricated pond that I am going to put in on the plot, I just can't decide where! DP
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I am with flower, torch and night time patrol with a knife. I am frequently amazed how many you can send to that slug friendly lettuce leaf in the sky! I found very very sharp grit seemed to help around some plants but that is about all I can advise. We really try not to use the dreaded pellets in the garden because of the kids, which means I have given up trying to grow some plants, but my hostas, slugs fave, always survive the year perfectly! Curious.
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Thank you all very much for you're tips :) & will copy them down as soon as i get chance,
I Told Himself i had joined a lovely helpful Allotment board & he's thrilled to bits...I love the pond idea because we had one years ago at the old house as we had a humongous garden that i miss :'( because we had good soil )this is a wide garden & partly sunk & all clay :(Maybe we will be able to have a small one..
but unless Frogs can jump 6ft walls we will have to adopt some
At the moment i have some drunken slugs to
squash ...they get drunk on Beer fumes ;D
Thank you again
Maureen xxx
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I think I'd want to "get" ;D as many as I could BEFORE it gets warm enough for them to breed?
The most common - the grey field slug (Deroceras reticulatum) breeds in April/May and again in September/October. The garden slug (Arion hortensis) has one generation per year, breeding mainly in mid to late summer.
All best - Gavin
PS Read somewhere that mowing the lawn at night kills slugs by the thousand! ;D ;D ;D
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PS Read somewhere that mowing the lawn at night kills slugs by the thousand! ;D ;D ;D
My neighbours will seriously believe I've lost the plot if I start that ;D ;D ;D Eeeuuwww, gooey mower blades :P
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Salt was something my dad used in the garden. You could see the slugs squirm.
In an online game I play, there are rockslugs and you need salt to kill them.
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Hugh was impressed by coffee as a slug inhibitor -try this link :
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/yabbse/index.php/topic,162.msg1913.html#msg1913
I read this article and took note of the idea.
Late 2003 I started saving the dregs from my caffetiere and put these used ground coffee dregs around my lettuce very effectively - no snails, no slugs got through, and rain didn't wash the dregs away.
However, if I do find any slugs or snails, they get thrown over my neighbours fence. I have a brick anvil to break the shells of the snails, as otherwise, the ducks have difficulty swallowing them. They (slugs and snails) make lovely eggs !
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v172/Berghill/February/snaillovein.jpg)
A snail hibernarium! Sadly the hens and ducks had a feast. A snail mortuary!
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Feed them on Bran and eat em Eric??!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Think we are going to give nemaslug a go this year...
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I did that one year Multi, I didn't notice a vast difference for the cost, but then I was gardening on heavy clay soil :'( Now I have encorporated more compost etc. it may be worth me giving it another go!
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Beer traps have been suggested under a potato thread, but surely these can't lure keel slugs to the surface? I'm sure that they would rather have the potatoes? = Tim