Pentillie, gave up on that kind of thing years ago, even the old fashioned one lick and you are dead preventatives did not help. I found the best way is to clear the garden of anything they can hide behind, bits of wood plant pots, under the bushes in the border, pick them up drop them in a bucket with water and acid (any washing agent) and down the drain or into a hole in the ground. A couple of nights a week with torch and bucket reduces the numbers I did put some sticks in the ground with a fine loose mesh around some plants it worked. No point in being squeamish and taking them down the fields, they are homers and will be back in a week.
I have a mole that helps get rid of slugs & snails. Made of stone with a nice flat base I drop it on the little blighters. Makes a mess but soon hosed away.
Pentillie, as you are hardening the plants off, I'm assuming they are in pots or trays of some sort? Why don't you stand the container on a bed of sharp sand or gravel, that should deter all but the most determined slug.
Frank, will washing up liquid work, and how strong does my solution need to be? I am finding more slugs in my 'new' garden than I'm used to (no resident frogs). This seems a clean way to dispose of them if I find lots - before I get my chickens!
KEF, watch your feet! Aren't you worried you'll crack your mole?
I chop any slugs I find in half, and either the birds or frogs clean them up for me. If I'm wearing wellies then the snails get squished under those. I don't tend to find many slugs in the garden, I don't know if it's the blackbirds or the frogs that get them. The only ones I do tend to find are big ones, easier to chop. Hate the damn things. Those and lily beetles.
MMP I don't drop it from a great height, just enough to make a crunch or a splat. Won't hurt the mole he's already lost half his nose. Lily Beetles I hate them, talking of which I haven't inspected since breakfast...right bye..woman on a mission.
MMP, I am talking Domestos although a sudden thought, i wonder if a quick squirt with the Bathroom Spray would see them off. Sharp sand or gravel do not keep them off I have tried it and know they will cross yards of it and egg shell to get to a tasty plant. Hens and Ducks will clear them for you, they did the job in my Fathers garden, he always let the hens have free run of the garden It was a large one and his motto was one row for the beasties, two rows for us so he did allow for them.
That's it, I finally admit defeat. I have been trying for ages to get a 'proper' cup of leaf-brewed tea whenever I am out and about, but all I ever get is the ubiquitous cup of hot water with a b....y tea-bag dropped in it, and then charged over a pound for the privelege - no wonder most people now drink coffee!
Anyway, I now keep a stash of half-decent (?) tea-bags, Yorkshire Tea, in the car, so when I have a cuppa in a cafe, I can add an extra bag, and get a drink that somewhere near resembles tea!
Does anyone out there know of any establishment that still serves properly brewed tea?
To be honest no. thou I can get a fair cup of tea from a coffee maker. Pretty much the same as the coffee, my machine has an insulated jug so I can put on a brew and still be hot up to 8 hours later. Because there is no leaves in the brew it isn't stewed either.
Pentillie, had a very good pot of tea in a Cafe in Helmsley last week, Yorkshire tea, hot and strong with a jug of boiling water too, I did enjoy it. We still get Rington's tea here, the van calls and if I have too much left they take it back and give me fresh. I love their Ginger biscuits, you know you have had one unlike those tiny round things from the S/Market with no taste.
My rant is B/Gas, they now owe me £225 saying they will fund it back, I am dual fuel and that is the Electric, I owe a bit less than that on the Gas both paid monthly through the bank so why can they not take it off the Gas then. What is so complicated about running a single account for both I ask?????
Because Frank/Dad-they are all useless. No one has any common sense at these companies and they don't give a flying toss either.
I now have a scenario with the council because I rented a house for a year and the b**** people I rented from didn't bother to tell the council I'd moved out. I did but- oh no- that's not good enough, so I've been paying council tax on 2 properties. When I phoned to ask what the money was they'd taken on 8th April that's when it came out. I'd get it refunded they said, it would all be sorted but has it?.....Another call last week, as I'd seen they were about to take another payment so I cancelled the dd, and was told they had to have confirmation from the landlord that what I was saying was right. I lost the plot. She got shirty with me and said-- 'your tone is very threatening- I don't get paid enough to listen to that'.....
so I told her 'well I don't get paid at all to sit on the b***** phone for hours trying to deal with incompetent people at the other end.......'
Upshot is- she's refunding me about twice what they took....
I ain't saying a word!!!!
The engineer coming tomorrow to deal with the potentially 'exploding washing machine' as featured on Watchdog...
Worn out with it all...
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Pentillie, gave up on that kind of thing years ago, even the old fashioned one lick and you are dead preventatives did not help.
I found the best way is to clear the garden of anything they can hide behind, bits of wood plant pots, under the bushes in the border, pick them up drop them in a bucket with water and acid (any washing agent) and down the drain or into a hole in the ground.
A couple of nights a week with torch and bucket reduces the numbers I did put some sticks in the ground with a fine loose mesh around some plants it worked.
No point in being squeamish and taking them down the fields, they are homers and will be back in a week.
Frank.
I have a mole that helps get rid of slugs & snails. Made of stone with a nice flat base I drop it on the little blighters. Makes a mess but soon hosed away.
Pentillie, as you are hardening the plants off, I'm assuming they are in pots or trays of some sort? Why don't you stand the container on a bed of sharp sand or gravel, that should deter all but the most determined slug.
Frank, will washing up liquid work, and how strong does my solution need to be? I am finding more slugs in my 'new' garden than I'm used to (no resident frogs). This seems a clean way to dispose of them if I find lots - before I get my chickens!
KEF, watch your feet! Aren't you worried you'll crack your mole?
I chop any slugs I find in half, and either the birds or frogs clean them up for me. If I'm wearing wellies then the snails get squished under those. I don't tend to find many slugs in the garden, I don't know if it's the blackbirds or the frogs that get them. The only ones I do tend to find are big ones, easier to chop. Hate the damn things. Those and lily beetles.
MMP I don't drop it from a great height, just enough to make a crunch or a splat. Won't hurt the mole he's already lost half his nose. Lily Beetles I hate them, talking of which I haven't inspected since breakfast...right bye..woman on a mission.
MMP, I am talking Domestos although a sudden thought, i wonder if a quick squirt with the Bathroom Spray would see them off.
Sharp sand or gravel do not keep them off I have tried it and know they will cross yards of it and egg shell to get to a tasty plant.
Hens and Ducks will clear them for you, they did the job in my Fathers garden, he always let the hens have free run of the garden
It was a large one and his motto was one row for the beasties, two rows for us so he did allow for them.
Frank.
That's it, I finally admit defeat. I have been trying for ages to get a 'proper' cup of leaf-brewed tea whenever I am out and about, but all I ever get is the ubiquitous cup of hot water with a b....y tea-bag dropped in it, and then charged over a pound for the privelege - no wonder most people now drink coffee!
Anyway, I now keep a stash of half-decent (?) tea-bags, Yorkshire Tea, in the car, so when I have a cuppa in a cafe, I can add an extra bag, and get a drink that somewhere near resembles tea!
Does anyone out there know of any establishment that still serves properly brewed tea?
To be honest no. thou I can get a fair cup of tea from a coffee maker. Pretty much the same as the coffee, my machine has an insulated jug so I can put on a brew and still be hot up to 8 hours later. Because there is no leaves in the brew it isn't stewed either.
Pentillie, had a very good pot of tea in a Cafe in Helmsley last week, Yorkshire tea, hot and strong with a jug of boiling water too, I did enjoy it.
We still get Rington's tea here, the van calls and if I have too much left they take it back and give me fresh. I love their Ginger biscuits, you know you have had one unlike those tiny round things from the S/Market with no taste.
My rant is B/Gas, they now owe me £225 saying they will fund it back, I am dual fuel and that is the Electric, I owe a bit less than that on the Gas both paid monthly through the bank so why can they not take it off the Gas then. What is so complicated about running a single account for both I ask?????
Frank.
Because Frank/Dad-they are all useless. No one has any common sense at these companies and they don't give a flying toss either.
I now have a scenario with the council because I rented a house for a year and the b**** people I rented from didn't bother to tell the council I'd moved out. I did but- oh no- that's not good enough, so I've been paying council tax on 2 properties. When I phoned to ask what the money was they'd taken on 8th April that's when it came out. I'd get it refunded they said, it would all be sorted but has it?.....Another call last week, as I'd seen they were about to take another payment so I cancelled the dd, and was told they had to have confirmation from the landlord that what I was saying was right. I lost the plot. She got shirty with me and said-- 'your tone is very threatening- I don't get paid enough to listen to that'.....
so I told her 'well I don't get paid at all to sit on the b***** phone for hours trying to deal with incompetent people at the other end.......'
Upshot is- she's refunding me about twice what they took....
I ain't saying a word!!!!
The engineer coming tomorrow to deal with the potentially 'exploding washing machine' as featured on Watchdog...
Worn out with it all...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gone yourself let them have it girl that's what i like to hear someone letting people no when they try to pass you off with there mistakes.