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  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    I treated myself to some mussels the other week and thought, "these shells are just like eggshells".  So I stuck them in the fire for a bit to burn off the residual mussel bits and have crumbled them coarsely along with my eggshells.  They're going round the baby lettuces next week......

  • rosemummyrosemummy Posts: 2,010

    just though t i'd mention tesco has 4 packs of bitter or lager for £1 tha't cheapest i've found to drown the disgusting things!!

  • Jim MacdJim Macd Posts: 750

    I only have one hosta but I've never had any problems with slugs, I make sure I have a balanced garden attracting wildlife. They eat the slugs and I enjoy the wildlife. Nematodes sound good if you can't do balance though.

  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    That sounds like an excellent organic garden, Jim

    I think the 'organic' pellets' active ingredient is ferric phosphate, which doesn't sound very organic to me.

  • I have been using Organic child & pet safe slug busting granules which seem to work, but the only downside is when it gets wet it swells to an unsightly sticky mess! Still, better than ruined plants and flowers I suppose.

  • rosemummyrosemummy Posts: 2,010

    i do my best to encourage birds and we'd love a hedgehog! what do you mean by balanced jim, how to acheive?

  • rosemummyrosemummy Posts: 2,010

    AAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!! was so busy ensuring kept the @~@ off sweet peas forgot all my young clematid - 8 of them- they've been eaten to within an inch of their lives, now surrounded with grit eggshells and beer desperately hoping the can recover come are pretty damaged

  • flowering roseflowering rose Posts: 1,632

    After years of trying to be friendly to snails and slugs and at the same time kind to birds ,the only nasty way to be is a quick death to the snails and slugs (in boiling water) and then feed to birds ,no toxins .Hate it  but no alternative.image

  • rosemummyrosemummy Posts: 2,010

    beer working well for me just forgot they may eat anything other than sweet peas

  • rosemummyrosemummy Posts: 2,010

    the b!!!!rs have started on my hellebores now! what can i do? getting desperate

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