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Something is eating my peppers
christopher.claydon
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Hello I am growing peppers for the fourth year but each time something eats them before I do.
Please see attached photo and hopefully some one van advise me what the culprit may be and perhaps how I can stop this.
Hello I am growing peppers for the fourth year but each time something eats them before I do.
Please see attached photo and hopefully some one van advise me what the culprit may be and perhaps how I can stop this.
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they hide among your pots and sneak out at night.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I am open to any suggestions to stop them
Check the bottom of the pot and also the staging (top and underneath) etc if the plants are in a greenhouse.
I'm assuming you don't want to use slug pellets.
The old toxic variety based on metaldehyde have now been banned.
The new pellets are based on Iron Phosphate which are wildlife friendly (except for some slugs and snails).
They also break down in the soil to provide your plant with a little iron and phosphate fertilizer.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Hello thanks for your responses I am going to try with coffee grounds and see how that goes.
we do have some Doff slug pellets taht are used around some flowers, these contain Ferric Phosphate and are supposed to be suitable for organic gardening so maybe they would be ok.
It is quite disappointing.
Thanks Chris