small balls

[littlegem]

I have a mature grape vine that we adopted when we bought the house in november. its coming out lovely, but the other day i noticed lots of tiny clear balls on the green stems. what are these and if they are bad, how do i get rid of them? ???

[littlegem]

[northener]

Sound like eggs of some sort , slugs? squish em if they are.

[littlegem]

fellow northerner, they cant be slugs, slugs wouldnt b able to fly up there to lay eggs

[Diana]

No, but it could well be snails, esp if trained up a wall - we're forever picking them off my Dad's vine! Horrible when you harvest + the bunches are full of baby crunchies!

[littlegem]

any ideas what i could spray them with in egg stage, dont want an epidemic of anything!!!!

[Diana]

I'd pick them off + chuck 'em in a tub of brine - saves the spraying.

[northener]

Now that would be a nightmare, flying slugs. Whereabouts are you upt North Littlegem?

[littlegem]

NORTHERNER - nth notts, not too north but north enough to have an aversion with southerners!!! ;D sorry all you southerners, its a northern thing ;)

[Diana]

That's not north!

That's got to be 350+ miles SOUTH of me! ;D

[littlegem]

it is north, cos we have brown sauce (HP), not red (ketchup) on our full day breakfasts

[Svea]

it's north of watford gap, right? ;)

[littlegem]

exactly, or some would say, north of milton keynes. Middle of the road for everything!!! ;D

[aquilegia]

I'm a southerner and I have HP sauce. Hate the red stuff. yuck. Does that make me honourary northern?

[Val]

I'm a southerner.....move here we don't get flying slugs or snails, we don't have Bottled sauce, we give that to the staff....from the north.

[return of the mac]

Hahahaha I am the northest (Aberdeen) (in the village hehe) and i have tam sauce- its best!
I also have those eggs on my grapevine but i doubt that its slugs.

[Diana]

I'm sorry, I think I've missed something - where did these flying snails come from? I think it was something I said, but I really can't see what ???

[Marianne]

I found clear small balls under my pots in the cold frame about 2 months ago.  There were adult slugs lurking under the pots too so I suspect they are their babies  :o ???

I pulled them all off and never had any other problem.

[wardy]

Littlegem   I used to work in North Notts at 't pit  ;D

[littlegem]

which one wardy? worksop, harworth?

[lorna]

Aversion to Southerners? I would never have believed that of you Little Gem ;D Having said that as a South Londoner born and bred we also have a North and South divide.. North of the Thames and the BEST South of the Thames. I will be back down there in a few weeks visiting family. Happy weekend. Lorna