Slugs and snails II

[northener]

Heyup been reading the earlier thread on s and s thought you might be interested in this piccy. Guy on plot next to me put his cabbages in yesterday followed by a sprinkling of blue slug pellets. This is how many snails there were this morning. I've never seen as many is this the norm?

[northener]

[northener]

WRONG.

[undercarriage plan]

I have a novel way of dealing with snails, children are keeping them as pets in old aquarium.  They leave them in the sunshine so they're "happy".....!! Strangely, they seem to die in the day, and kids find new pets  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Lottie  Organic or what!!!!!

[Marianne]

Yuck ! So many !! :o :o

[Roy Bham UK]

:o Gonna be a bit wet 'n' sticky under foot :P

[Doris_Pinks]

Hopefully they have all expired on your neighbours plot and won't be any left to visit yours!! That is a LOT of snails! :o

[westsussexlottie]

i have never seen so many!
Except in French supermarkets...

[northener]

Yeah i'm kinda hoping that Doris. Nice kids you have underplan.

[wardy]

I have a gap in my wall which harbours snails and I broddle them out and leave them on the path for a thrush to eat.  He clears my garden of them for me.  I've not looked this year so I better get a move on  :)

[honeybee]

Ive had so many snails this year, goodness knows where they have come from, usually the big black slugs outweigh the snails in my garden but this years its the snails that are winning the race, so to speak   :D

[Doris_Pinks]

We had a race one year with them Honeybee, at my Mum's 70th birthday party! Painted the shells with acylic paint, set all 20 of them in the middle of a circle and 6 hours later..................................... ;D

[aquilegia]

I am a mass murderer.

I collected over 200 snails yesterday (mostly off the wallflowers). I stopped counting how many I'd put into the plastic bag at the 200 mark, considering what I was about to do.

I them repeatedly hit it with a brick.

And later when I was cutting back the finished wallflowers, I found more!

I am a bad Buddhist vegetarian!

[urbandruid]

Hi All!

We're new to allotmenteering, and I was determined that our allotment would be as wildlife-friendly as possible.  However, after losing our entire batch of turnips, sprouts and most of our cabbages to slugs/snails, I lost my temper and have resorted to slug pellets.  >:(

I was interested to read in an earlier thread about the plastic collars made from PET bottles.  Has anyone had much success with these, as I'd prefer to make a stockpile of these for next year instead of resorting to pesticides again.  Also, I've heard that the skins from halved oranges and grapefruits placed on the ground work well as slug deterrents.  Anyone used these successfully in the past? ???

[wardy]

I use plastic boxes (usually soup or soap powder containers) make a hole near the bottom at one side just big enough for sluggy and place near vulnerable plants with slug pellets in or better still beer or yeast granules and a bit of water).  slug pellets are lethal so make sure they are in a tight container that way only the slugs get to them and not pets or children.

Grapefruits and orange works well and is easy to reload  :)  They do say that the biological control like Nemaslug works very well.  I encourage wild life onto my  garden and allotment and hope the toads and frogs, thrushes etc will help me with my pest control  :)

[redimp]

I have sunk a small pond (sshh! don't tell the council) and have now added frog and newt (hopefully great crested) tadpoles to it.  All are doing well so in a few years hopefully I will have my own slug munchers hopping and scampering all over my and neighbouring plots.

[tim]

After complaining about snails in the greenhouse, it's only just dawned that I can use pellets in there without danger.

[honeybee]

Thanks for that tip Wardy, i was thinking of a way to do something similar to that myself where the slug pellets were enclosed, but couldnt work out in my head how to devise something and your idea sounds perfect to what i was looking for  :-*

[tim]

A little snippet from 'Which'.

Ground traps caught more beetles, centipedes & spiders than slugs, so they recommend a trap at least 1cm above ground level.

And if spraying WD40 on china/plastic pot/bed rims, renew it every 2-3 weeks.