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Title: b*****s
Post by: GREENWIZARD on March 18, 2005, 14:15:33

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Post by: Marianne on March 19, 2005, 19:49:55

Oh gawwwwwwd! will have to go out in the garden right now - just remembered I have taken cuttings of my delphiniums and left them out on the patio !! :o :o :o If I don't go, there will be nothing left !

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Post by: quinny on March 19, 2005, 20:10:22

I was out last night and there was a whole mob of them hanging about looking real tough. Slopping about so they were, quite the thing, like they owned the place.

Tomorrow though, I will unleash the Lidl slug traps!! Filled with the amber nectar home brew. Glug, glug, glug - loadsa dead slugs!!! I'll get a few for you guys as well...

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Post by: Marianne on March 19, 2005, 21:34:07

That's better ! Got them in the cold frame in the nick of time as they were already on the war path..... literally ! ;D

Thank god for A4A, without it, I would not have remembered ! LOL ???

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Post by: gavin on March 20, 2005, 21:21:08

Get 'em now before they lay eggs! ;D ;D ;D

Good luck - Gavin

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Post by: Lillypad on March 23, 2005, 12:54:47

I found dozens of the little so and sos sheltering under phacelia (grown as a green manure). It was obviously a highly des. res. They seem to be very social blighters too - all cuddled up together!

I'm too squeamish to chop/drown them, but I did spinkle Slug Stoppa granules around. A good opportunity to try out this organic product? Has anyone else used it & was it successful?

Lillypad

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Post by: growmore on March 25, 2005, 09:16:56

If You don't like squishing them .Sprinkle a little salt on them and watch them melt ... 8)Jim

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Post by: Marianne on March 25, 2005, 11:38:04

Just had a clean up in the cold frame and found lots of little pearly things which I believe to be baby slugs as well as a mother ??? :o Squashed the lot and given to the birds.
There were lots under the pots too, they had stood on the patio for a long time last summer.

I am determined to hunt them down!
>:( >:(

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Post by: moonbells on March 28, 2005, 00:14:45

I picked up the water tank at the lottie yesterday as the water's back on, and I thought I'd clean it before refilling.

I now know where all the snails were hiding overwinter.

Heh. CRUNCH!
Not any more they're not....

moonbells

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Post by: Marianne on March 28, 2005, 12:12:40

;) ;D :D

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Post by: Multiveg on March 28, 2005, 12:23:00

While I nipped outside to er fertilise the baytree (been reading a book on liquid gold), I saw a few slugs which have now been despatched to mollusc heaven.

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Post by: Marianne on March 28, 2005, 16:22:48

Just noticed a moutain of greenfly on my Ena Harkness climbing roses. Got the water spray out and squashed the little devils to whence they came... ;D ;D

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Post by: Deleted on March 28, 2005, 19:39:47

Eight Lily Beetles munching merrily on my [few] lilies. Slugs and snails? Lost count.

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Post by: Mrs Ava on March 28, 2005, 23:27:44

Moving trays around in the greenhouse noticed something had started to graze my celery and a couple of sunflowers eated clean in 2. Found a HUGE happy snail....not so happy now..........scrunch!!

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Post by: Multiveg on March 28, 2005, 23:35:16

They;ve been at my sunflowers as well :'( :'(

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Post by: Marianne on March 29, 2005, 20:56:37

I have all my sunflower seedlings on the windowsills. Will stick them in large pots when they are big enough to go out. Don't like slugs ... >:(

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Post by: northener on March 29, 2005, 22:17:58

I put 4 sunflowers out last week the buggers have left me with one. i've protected this one with a 2"pot with no bottom in.

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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: GREENWIZARD on March 18, 2005, 14:15:33