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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: adam04 on September 03, 2005, 22:49:56

Title: Pepper, lunch anyone?
Post by: adam04 on September 03, 2005, 22:49:56
somethings eating my peppers, and its not me! the peppers that are forming on my plants in my greenhouse keep being eaten, but depsite putting slug pellets down they still continue.

the bits that are eaten are very cleanly cut, not small holes or anything.

Bamboozeled, cos i am?

PS: think the GH has a few frogs in there somehwere!! dont ask how thye got in their but they did!
Title: Re: Pepper, lunch anyone?
Post by: flowerlady on September 04, 2005, 15:26:04
might it be possible that you have nocturnal two legged visitors.

dip them in Tabasco! that might deter them! ;D
Title: Re: Pepper, lunch anyone?
Post by: Doris_Pinks on September 04, 2005, 15:52:05
I had bees once that were cutting neat bits out of my leaves, presumably to line their nests !
Title: Re: Pepper, lunch anyone?
Post by: adam04 on September 04, 2005, 20:00:39
Quote from: flowerlady on September 04, 2005, 15:26:04
might it be possible that you have nocturnal two legged visitors.

dip them in Tabasco! that might deter them! ;D

nah i dont think kangaroos visit manchesterr very often! the door stays shut most of the time, thas the problem so im not sure, i cant understand it.
Title: Re: Pepper, lunch anyone?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on September 04, 2005, 23:54:28
Quote from: Doris_Pinks on September 04, 2005, 15:52:05
I had bees once that were cutting neat bits out of my leaves, presumably to line their nests !

Leaf-cutter bees; that's exactly what they do. They normally nest in the hollows of dead stems and the like, but they use holes I've drilled in my gateposts enthusiastically.