Yes @Fairygirl I definitely need to come up with a plan.
I sowed some Little Gem yesterday, so just to get a feeling for how bad it's going be in the lettuce bed I'm going to leave the ones that are already planted and see what happens.
If I'm honest I've never seen slugs in that part of the garden before, it's 11 tonnes of 20mm gravel, but the smell of the lettuce has obviously lured them in.
I'm getting pretty good at slug launching but some of the snails we get are just about the size of a table tennis ball and go a fair distance. Maybe it should become a national sport
Snails have homing instincts, I don't know about slugs.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I'm getting pretty good at slug launching but some of the snails we get are just about the size of a table tennis ball and go a fair distance. Maybe it should become a national sport
Snails have homing instincts, I don't know about slugs.
slugs do to. I think it's about 100m they need to be before they will get lost.
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I sowed some Little Gem yesterday, so just to get a feeling for how bad it's going be in the lettuce bed I'm going to leave the ones that are already planted and see what happens.
If I'm honest I've never seen slugs in that part of the garden before, it's 11 tonnes of 20mm gravel, but the smell of the lettuce has obviously lured them in.
That's the problem - free lunch
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
slugs do to. I think it's about 100m they need to be before they will get lost.