Apparently there's a new variety of spanish slugs that are HUGE. They've been known to eat dead mice, dog poo, and each other. Hoping to goodness that the nematodes work on these blighters, although they won't need to if I see them first......
Poppa Greenwood on GQT just advised going out for evening slug hunts now before they start breeding- but by the size of the toddlers in the gh, they're already hatching.
I also found 4 in my cold frame yesterday, I placed a bowl of flour and water paste in there as this was recommended by a poster last year and I found it an environmental way to get rid of them.
How does it work Kate? Do they expire in the bowl? What consistency's the paste? Have just emptied out larder and have found some embarrassingly out of date flour...
But I find the best option is going out in the evening when its damp and getting rid of them by hand. That is the method that best worked for me last year
I find slugs tend to go back to the same plants every evening so if you see damage the slugs wont be too far away.
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Apparently there's a new variety of spanish slugs that are HUGE. They've been known to eat dead mice, dog poo, and each other. Hoping to goodness that the nematodes work on these blighters, although they won't need to if I see them first......
I also found 4 in my cold frame yesterday, I placed a bowl of flour and water paste in there as this was recommended by a poster last year and I found it an environmental way to get rid of them.
They do expire in the bowl, which is quite yucky, not sure why it works. The paste is gloopy.
Guiness is also good
But I find the best option is going out in the evening when its damp and getting rid of them by hand. That is the method that best worked for me last year
I find slugs tend to go back to the same plants every evening so if you see damage the slugs wont be too far away.
But then, what do you do with a bowl of flour and water paste full of dead slugs; can you compost it?
Yes artjak. its all organic meterial so it can be composted
The slugs go for the yeast in the flour, thats what attracts them
The mice are also on the move, my dear cat Lennie has started bringing them in and then leaves them half dead. Bless him
Ooooh mice