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What would eat Lupins?

Flower63Flower63 Posts: 4

As in the title, something has eaten my lupins! They were growing back nicely and just filling out, and I came home tonight and they are just stalks! Something has completely stripped them! I always thought lupins were poisonous, so what would have eaten them? Or maybe I'm just destined to have no leaves at all in my garden this year! image

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  • CaralCaral Posts: 301

    What Verdun said. image 

  • flumpy1flumpy1 Posts: 3,117

    Put plenty slug pellets around your garden and plenty of them image

  • CaralCaral Posts: 301

    I'll just invested in a rather large kitchen knife to decapitate them. I was fiddling about in the pitch black last night I accidentally kicked and slopped my salty water jug of  fizzing slugs... and I was wearing sandals  image  

  • Flower63Flower63 Posts: 4

    image Caral, I'd rather let the slugs win! I'll invest in the slug pellets. Cheers!

  • CaralCaral Posts: 301

    image Flower63 believe me I felt that way last night :

    Just ignore my rantings about slugs my family does; although I did heard my 7 yr old giving advice about slugs to a couple in the garden centre image  I'll probably become obsessive about slugs and lupins (perhaps that should be present tense!) but won't be brow beaten by slimy pests out of sheer bloody mindedness.image

     

  • I go out every night  seeking the dreaded Slug and Snail they are the vain of my life, i found 2 slugs that must  have been The Grandmother and Grandfater of all slugs they were that big and fat through eating my plants, my Hoster gets shredded every year, i have tried slug pellets, bowls of beer and someone told me an old remedy, milk in a bowl but that did not work, i am sur they have come from another planet, i know you can but this copper strip but i am a pensioner and cannot afford to buy enough of it for my plants

    Is  there anyone that  know how to sort this problem please.

    Barbara.

  • Tropical SamTropical Sam Posts: 1,488

    Overnight would make me think large Snails or Caterpillars.

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