Cor, slug threesome! I have been out collecting after the recent rain, and now the damp mornings, putting them on the compost heap. Tried beer traps for the first time this year, did collect some slugs, but inspite of the traps being under netting, new puppy got in there and drank the Newcastle brown! over the weekend, she had tea, (thats OK) but she also drank Hubbys glass of pineapple! Dove, you can have all my slugs with pleasure, I will even deliver them personally!!!
Wondered why there's always loads of orangey slugs in my guinea pig run... looks like they're Spanish slugs and they eat excrement, yuck! (although I'd rather they ate guinea pig poo than my plants!)
If your orange slugs are eating your healthy plants then they may well be the Spanish variety. It won't take you long to find out because they eat almost everything. They have an unattractive habit of moving about in little groups and simply coating a plant from top to bottom, chomping up flowers, buds, leaves and stems. Twenty a night is nothing - if the damp weather holds you will be able to pick up hundreds in an hour. ON NO ACCOUNT put them on the compost!
green fingered finch, when I say "compost heap" it is actually a green compost bin with lid, they are not allowed back out! They are allowed to eat, the rotting stuff. I havernt got any orange ones, just the usual beige, brown,black. I gather lots of folk who hate killing the things put them in the compost bin. OOOOOOh, is that life size Dove, what a beast!
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Hideous beasts the lot of them. Mine look suspiciously like the Spanish variety. And I saw one on my kniphofia too! That's it, I'm getting rid!
Cor, slug threesome! I have been out collecting after the recent rain, and now the damp mornings, putting them on the compost heap. Tried beer traps for the first time this year, did collect some slugs, but inspite of the traps being under netting, new puppy got in there and drank the Newcastle brown! over the weekend, she had tea, (thats OK) but she also drank Hubbys glass of pineapple! Dove, you can have all my slugs with pleasure, I will even deliver them personally!!!
Nanny, you put slugs on the compost heap??
Love that your puppy drank the Newky brown!
Wondered why there's always loads of orangey slugs in my guinea pig run... looks like they're Spanish slugs and they eat excrement, yuck! (although I'd rather they ate guinea pig poo than my plants!)
If your orange slugs are eating your healthy plants then they may well be the Spanish variety. It won't take you long to find out because they eat almost everything. They have an unattractive habit of moving about in little groups and simply coating a plant from top to bottom, chomping up flowers, buds, leaves and stems. Twenty a night is nothing - if the damp weather holds you will be able to pick up hundreds in an hour. ON NO ACCOUNT put them on the compost!
green fingered finch, when I say "compost heap" it is actually a green compost bin with lid, they are not allowed back out! They are allowed to eat, the rotting stuff. I havernt got any orange ones, just the usual beige, brown,black. I gather lots of folk who hate killing the things put them in the compost bin. OOOOOOh, is that life size Dove, what a beast!
They are not allowed back out haha
phew!
Well they don't seem to have decimated the garden as yet... Interestingly they do seem to make a beeline for the hedgehog food each night.
What is it about kniphofias? Slugs love them so