Slugs, can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.....

[weedin project]

Went off on hols last week and set out the seedlings under netting tunnels with a timer on the hosepipe and a regular sprinkle twice a day for them all.  Worked a treat.

Kept the plants nicely moist. :)

Also kept the soil around them nicely moist.  ::)

Also kept the slugs as happy as can be, especially when they started muching my 3-inch high sweetcorn seedlings.

This wasn't just sweetcorn, this was tender, sun-drenched sweetcorn, raised in sensuously sifted seed compost mixed luxuriantly with diamantes of vermiculite and a dusting of perlite, germinated with rainwater and pampered on greenhouse staging. 

Yes this was slug food from Slug M&S. :'(

They left me with two sweetcorn plants.  Two.  Useful - not.  Still, hopefuly the thrushes and blackbirds will benefit from well fattened slugs.

[weedin project]

[AlanP]

Well you live and learn >:(, never mind there is plenty of time to plant Sweet Corn :)

[ellkebe]

this was tender, sun-drenched sweetcorn, raised in sensuously sifted seed compost mixed luxuriantly with diamantes of vermiculite and a dusting of perlite, germinated with rainwater and pampered on greenhouse staging. 
Yes this was slug food from Slug M&S. :'(

You know, that sounds so good I'd eat it over some of what M&S have on offer  ;D ;D

[allaboutliverpool]

One day last summer, I could not sleep and went to my allotment at 4:30 am shotly after a rainy evening. There are several wide paths, some tarmac and some well pressed in gravel. There were literally thousands of slugs on the move, rather like the pictures of the cane toads in Australia.

I have tried everything short of buying a lorryload of sharp sand and I am admit that slug pellets are my only vice.

The expression 'pragmatic garder' fits me well.

http://www.allaboutliverpool.com/allaboutallotments1_homepage.html

[simon404]

M&S slug food! lol  ;D