Slug and snails eggs are not stuck together at all, if it were vine weevil, you wouldn’t be removing the plants, they’d have fallen on their own without roots.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
If the trug is now empty, no problem with the Vine Weevils. If you want to prepare the trug for next year you could start filling with a mix of raw kitchen waste and top soil mixed with torn up paper and cardboard. Keep layering it and add a bit of BFB and by the time you are ready to use it in the Spring, it should be decent enough for your plants. Vine weevil grubs are easy enough to ID and they infest the roots. As said above, you would be lucky to see the actual eggs - laid on the surface - a good layer of grit is often a deterrent to the adults looking to lay. Slug/Snail eggs are not usually enclosed in slime. If you poke around in the soil and come across a bunch of eggs, you will find that you can actually pick each individual egg out without them sticking together - that is of course if you feel so inclined and have nothing better to do for half an hour If the eggs you found were actually on the leaves, you could be looking at various insects. The notches on the leaves could just be incidental - Vine Weevil or WHY. As said tho, pretty pointless spraying or using Nematodes until you have actually ID'd the culprit.
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Slugs eggs the same but white.
If you want to prepare the trug for next year you could start filling with a mix of raw kitchen waste and top soil mixed with torn up paper and cardboard. Keep layering it and add a bit of BFB and by the time you are ready to use it in the Spring, it should be decent enough for your plants.
Vine weevil grubs are easy enough to ID and they infest the roots. As said above, you would be lucky to see the actual eggs - laid on the surface - a good layer of grit is often a deterrent to the adults looking to lay.
Slug/Snail eggs are not usually enclosed in slime. If you poke around in the soil and come across a bunch of eggs, you will find that you can actually pick each individual egg out without them sticking together - that is of course if you feel so inclined and have nothing better to do for half an hour
If the eggs you found were actually on the leaves, you could be looking at various insects. The notches on the leaves could just be incidental - Vine Weevil or WHY.
As said tho, pretty pointless spraying or using Nematodes until you have actually ID'd the culprit.