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? ???
Sound like eggs of some sort , slugs? squish em if they are.
fellow northerner, they cant be slugs, slugs wouldnt b able to fly up there to lay eggs
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!
any ideas what i could spray them with in egg stage, dont want an epidemic of anything!!!!
I'd pick them off + chuck 'em in a tub of brine - saves the spraying.
Now that would be a nightmare, flying slugs. Whereabouts are you upt North 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 ;)
That's not north!
That's got to be 350+ miles SOUTH of me! ;D
it is north, cos we have brown sauce (HP), not red (ketchup) on our full day breakfasts
it's north of watford gap, right? ;)
exactly, or some would say, north of milton keynes. Middle of the road for everything!!! ;D
I'm a southerner and I have HP sauce. Hate the red stuff. yuck. Does that make me honourary northern?
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.
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.
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 ???
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.
Littlegem I used to work in North Notts at 't pit ;D
which one wardy? worksop, harworth?
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
Lorna,
We have some very good friends who live in East Ham. Is that South or North of the river Thames ??
Talking of balls, I get these on my vine, I think they are the leakage of sap through a hole made by a sap sucking insect of some kind. The sap congeals into a solid ball. Try eating one! if I'm right it will taste sweet, if wrong, then at least one egg won't hatch!
Brian
Marianne. East Ham is North side of Thames (East London) near Blackwall Tunnel'ish I was born in Eltham which is South side (S.E.London) and most of my large family all still live round that area. Erith, Chislehurst, Eltham, Sidcup.. then some in parts of Kent. Maidstone, Cliffe .I don't think the North of the Thames people consider us Southerners real Londoners but we don't mind. Have been diving in and out between heavy showers trying to do jobs in garden. Lorna.