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   Slugs !     :P

   Bit late now, but often wondered if a ' food barrier  '  would  be more effective than

   -- pellets etc to deter slugs  ?          Why not a row of lettuce, or the like - sown as a

   food barrier to sow round the runner beans,   give 'em a good feed and when they are

  stuffed  they won't want the  ' chosen ' crops ?

  -- anyone tried it ?


   floss xxx

That sounds the same as planting nasturtians near broad beans so the nasturtians get the black fly instead of the B/B.

I don't know if I believe in the idea of a sacrificial crop. Surely if you feed the blighters they will just breed more and more and wipe out more crops in the end?

  It do , don't it grannyjanny,   [  bye the way, I'm '' nanny jan ''  --  any relation ? ]    ;D

  Does this go with companion planting then ,  only in a more sinister mode ?

  Always been experimental  [[   OK, OK,  you guys - do your worst !!  ]],   and am

  always looking for the alternative remody,  

  floss xxx

If you want double the slugs next year then do the sacraficial crop thing otherwise use tried and tested slug pellets or nematodes.

 

   Oh ,  forgot to say , do go on excursions at night to pick the blighters off !

   --   and down to the great sewage works they go !     Still feel , you know ---

    a bit awful,  but at least they still have a chance of coming up roses !


    floss xxx