Really sorry to hear that John.I'm not sure about Honeysuckle in my garden.I do know that it has lots of aphids on it and yes its very discouraging. I'm a nature lover but slugs and snails really test my patience.
they've eaten so many of my seedlings, but I just can't bring myself to kill them! I mean, afterall they have got to eat, and have every right to be on this earth... Ants however ugh... I'm allergic to them, but they love my garden and are everywhere at all times!
Wow SweetPea ,I must say you're the 1st person I've come across who seem to accept these awful creatures .I don't share your sentiments at all. I'm just about to go out side armed with my torch and see what I can find and hopefully deposit them in salt water. The weather conditions at the moment seem ideal for some success, so fingers crossed
I cant kill them either, hate em with a passion as they are destroying my garden but......they do have a right to be here like any other animal insect etc so I don't feel I have a right to kill them but to just perhaps forcibly remove them from said garden.
sprinkle " suet treats" and encourage blackbirds to rummage. I did it 2 years ago and the blackbirds keep coming back , but I don't use the "treats" any more.
Try firing the pellets at the slugs, with an air rifle. Nearly the same calibre, and if you don't kill them with shooting them, they'll eat the pellet and croak . A win win situation
I like Hostafan's idea, sprinkling suet treats around. With the beer traps, drunken molluscs and bloated blackies rummaging around in the foliage.......... makes one imagine all sorts of goings on !
Just back from the nightly killing spree. My salty slug jug is now full. I noticed that the large slugs (4 inches+) can drink the beer without falling in! Hmmm... I've struggling so much trying to pick the buggars up, that I've taken to snipping them in half with a pair of scissors.. totally gross. Quite pleased to be Catholic and not a Buddhist at this point.
Has anyone used porridge oats? I've just read that slugs love them, and the oats blow up inside of them, suppose it has to be better than napalm...
Fishy65, dogs are lovely but can be a complete pain. Mine is fairly good and just likes to find a sunny spot to sunbathe normally. But if there is a scent left by something furry she'll traipse all over the borders following it!
Daisyheadcase, cats are evil! Although having a dog I never see any cats, dogs are much nicer at least if they do foul in the garden its highly visible, not buried in the soil waiting for an unsuspecting gardener to do some hand weeding.
I've just returned from my 2nd venture into my saturated garden 23.30. In my 1st visit 21.15, I managed to find and deposit about 15 slugs and snails into salted water. On my 2nd visit, I ( covering the same area) collected another 10. So that's 25 of the creatures that wont be eating my plants. Sorry if that offends people but it's them or my plants. By the way SweetPea & sunnysarah what do you think of Locusts & Mosquitoes also the bugs that are decimating our bees?
I cant kill them either, hate em with a passion as they are destroying my garden but......they do have a right to be here like any other animal insect etc so I don't feel I have a right to kill them but to just perhaps forcibly remove them from said garden.
...I agree with that....exactly...mine go over the fence [no neighbours]...if they come back...just have to do it again...lol...
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Really sorry to hear that John.I'm not sure about Honeysuckle in my garden.I do know that it has lots of aphids on it and yes its very discouraging. I'm a nature lover but slugs and snails really test my patience.
they've eaten so many of my seedlings, but I just can't bring myself to kill them! I mean, afterall they have got to eat, and have every right to be on this earth... Ants however ugh... I'm allergic to them, but they love my garden and are everywhere at all times!
Wow SweetPea ,I must say you're the 1st person I've come across who seem to accept these awful creatures .I don't share your sentiments at all. I'm just about to go out side armed with my torch and see what I can find and hopefully deposit them in salt water. The weather conditions at the moment seem ideal for some success, so fingers crossed
I cant kill them either, hate em with a passion as they are destroying my garden but......they do have a right to be here like any other animal insect etc so I don't feel I have a right to kill them but to just perhaps forcibly remove them from said garden.
sprinkle " suet treats" and encourage blackbirds to rummage. I did it 2 years ago and the blackbirds keep coming back , but I don't use the "treats" any more.
Try firing the pellets at the slugs, with an air rifle. Nearly the same calibre, and if you don't kill them with shooting them, they'll eat the pellet and croak . A win win situation
I like Hostafan's idea, sprinkling suet treats around. With the beer traps, drunken molluscs and bloated blackies rummaging around in the foliage.......... makes one imagine all sorts of goings on !
Just back from the nightly killing spree. My salty slug jug is now full. I noticed that the large slugs (4 inches+) can drink the beer without falling in! Hmmm... I've struggling so much trying to pick the buggars up, that I've taken to snipping them in half with a pair of scissors.. totally gross. Quite pleased to be Catholic and not a Buddhist at this point.
Has anyone used porridge oats? I've just read that slugs love them, and the oats blow up inside of them, suppose it has to be better than napalm...
Fishy65, dogs are lovely but can be a complete pain. Mine is fairly good and just likes to find a sunny spot to sunbathe normally. But if there is a scent left by something furry she'll traipse all over the borders following it!
Daisyheadcase, cats are evil!
Although having a dog I never see any cats, dogs are much nicer at least if they do foul in the garden its highly visible, not buried in the soil waiting for an unsuspecting gardener to do some hand weeding. 
I've just returned from my 2nd venture into my saturated garden 23.30. In my 1st visit 21.15, I managed to find and deposit about 15 slugs and snails into salted water. On my 2nd visit, I ( covering the same area) collected another 10. So that's 25 of the creatures that wont be eating my plants. Sorry if that offends people but it's them or my plants. By the way SweetPea & sunnysarah what do you think of Locusts & Mosquitoes also the bugs that are decimating our bees?
...I agree with that....exactly...mine go over the fence [no neighbours]...if they come back...just have to do it again...lol...