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snails and slugs

rosemummyrosemummy Posts: 2,010
in Problem solving

i know there are loads of threads on these blighters, i think i'm going to get nematodes but can't afford at the mo,,i wondered if i'm being really silly, could i leave leaves they like to eat by plants i don't want eating to fill their greedy tummies? is this too silly an idea?

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  • Lily 3Lily 3 Posts: 49
    Hi RM there's definate ligic to that. But I'd worry I was helping them increase in numbers. I'm with Dove, I've always found slug pubs one of the best solutions. And would put lots of those next to the plants you don't want to get munched. image
  • greg secrettgreg secrett Posts: 7

    the other way is to put bowls of beer around your plants.  slugs love beer and they have a bit too much and never get out of the bowl image

  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    Apparently, if you put bran down they gorge on it, it then swells and kills them - a bit like me with those choc bics! image
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,131

    At the moment, when I cut a couple of lettuces for supper I chop up the outside leaves and put them in a heap on the edge of the purple sprouting broccoli bed - the slugs seem to prefer the lettuce to the broccoli .............. so far image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • treehugger80treehugger80 Posts: 1,923

    apparently if you collect about a dozen slugs, put them on a coke bottle half full of water, wait about two weeks shaking every day and then strain the remaining smelly goo, the liquid has the slug killing nematodes in it. never tried it myself but an old allotmenteers I knew swore by it.

     

    also - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardeningequipment/8675592/The-war-on-slugs-starts-at-home.html the telegraph has something to say about it

  • rosemummyrosemummy Posts: 2,010

    Wow has edd read this, unsure I could stomach it...maybe I'll try, I got lazy with the beer traps after sweet peas got bigger... My own fault, must get to tesco and start buying my. 4 packs again, thanks for advice everyone, off to bed, night night

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    Spontaneous generation tree hugger?

    That might work if the slugs already have the nematode but you won't brew nematodes from a solution of slug.

     

     



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    All the slugs and snails in my garden seem to love paper???? image
  • Adam PascoAdam Pasco Posts: 90

     

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    Every evening for the past month or so I've gone out with a torch and walked round the garden, and without exception I've caught large fat slugs or snails every time. 

    And I discovered that if the remains of squashed slugs and snails were left in place, when I returned the next night more slugs had converged to eat them! Just check out my photo.

     

     

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

     Nice one for the more squeamish members Adamimage

    I take a nice sharp shovel on my walk round



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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