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Hanging gardens of cucumberlon

Penny_ForthemPenny_Forthem Posts: 455
edited May 2022 in Fruit & veg
I sowed 5 cucumber Carmen in the greenhouse. 4 germinated.
One was completely eaten by slugs.
3 left
This morning, slug damage apparent on all 3. No other plants touched ( and I have 18 tomatoes. plus courgettes etc)
Drastic measures!
So that rats don't get the slug pellets, the pots have been hung in the greenhouse in old latex gloves!


I hope I can save them!


Beautiful North Wales - hiraeth

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  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    That is an awful lot of pellets. Did you have pellets around the plants when they weren't suspended? Check for snails hiding under the pots or staging. They could be doing the damage as well.
    Hope you do manage to save them.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Three or four pellets is more than enough. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BlueBirderBlueBirder Posts: 212
    @Penny_Forthem I know very little about cucumbers or slug pellets, but I wanted to congratulate you on an excellent discussion title. Puntastic. :lol:
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