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This year's snowdrops

AlbatrossAlbatross Posts: 5
in Problem solving
Again I had a magnificent show of snowdrops early February but the extreme wet and warm temperatures have xaused baby slugs to hatch out and feed off my snowdrop flowers. I have tried barriers like egg shells sand sheep wool pellets . Once they start on a clump they target and take all the flowers . I have also tried decoys like lettuce leaves which did temporarily delay some. I've also tried garlic spray and it had no apparent effect.i have plenty of frogs and birds around but the main time of attack in night time frogs are just croaking at each other! So I resort to collecting over 50 slugs every night they seem to come up in the centre of the clump too all different colours some the Spanish ones some black keel slugs and a couple of other indigenous species. If anyone wants to do a study on them I've still plenty as they don't seem to diminish. 

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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I have the same problem here. Not sure if there is any solution.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited 19 February
    I have the same problem. All my tete-a-tete daffs are just in bud but the baby slugs eat off the flower heads before they can open. I put out some slug pubs last night and we'll see if that helps draw them off a bit. There is not much that my slugs like more than bulbs - allium (garlic) being top of the menu.
  • AlbatrossAlbatross Posts: 5
    Try getting some sharp sand on your hands and grab hold of bunch and cover the stems with sand if wet its sticks and I've saved a few blooms like that with daffs and snowdrops 
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