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QuoteI reckon to get 20-30 slugs each day.

You are either very lucky or missing many thousands. At just 3 to an onion that would be just 7-10 onions. What about the other 300 odd? The sheer scale of the problem is hard to quantify and I have better things to do than count how many slugs there are to a standard 3" flowerpot times 5-8  per daily visit (and still getting eaten out of house and home).

I have always gardened organically and am well used to taking collateral damage on everything planted but never so great as this year. Anyway, now for a funny.

As it was raining on and off all day today I took the day off to do shopping and such like and took my gardening clothes with me in a bag to change into later at the plot. After doing my usual pottering decided to get home early before the next downpour so went to the shed to collect my clobber and found a huge slug eating my shoes. Now that is taking the piss. ::)

Quote from: Eristic on July 02, 2007, 20:17:18

QuoteI reckon to get 20-30 slugs each day.

You are either very lucky or missing many thousands. At just 3 to an onion that would be just 7-10 onions. What about the other 300 odd? The sheer scale of the problem is hard to quantify and I have better things to do than count how many slugs there are to a standard 3" flowerpot times 5-8  per daily visit (and still getting eaten out of house and home).

What?

Quote from: robkb on July 02, 2007, 15:03:51
While we're on this topic...  My Pink Fir Apple haulms are being eaten as soon as they show themselves above ground - does anyone know if they'll grow back? (and yes, it's definitely slugs or snails - the slime trails give them away!).

Cheers,
Rob ;)

Rob, I'm doing pink Fir Apple for the first time this year and the slugs had all my tops too (for some reason my second-early Saxon weren't effected).

I thought I'd lost the lot but resorted to slug pellets and, blow me down, the spuds have come back with a vengeance. Some had no leaves left at all but they are all fighting fit now and are the best looking haulms I've ever had, so don't worry!

I'm constantly amazed by the way plants fight to survive...

How ghastly!  It is a shame that slugs look so unappetising - Has anyone tried eating them?  They may be the new "superfood" and we could all harvest the slugs and live like millionaires off our allotments!  I mean if we eat smails - how different would a slug taste?  They could even be classified as  an organic vegetarian meal!

Think of the milions that we could all make!

;D

Some of my PFA have had the tops munched off before they got going. >:( :'(