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Cabbage plants

Netty9dNetty9d Posts: 5
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What has eaten these Cabbage plants, 15cm high, centers gone, under enviromesh, two pictures attached

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Slugs unfortunately. Put a few pellets under the mesh, then nothing else can get to them.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Netty9dNetty9d Posts: 5

    I did use slug pellets. Many thanks for your response.

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    Netty, one problem with slug pellets is that they contain an attractant so also pull slugs into the area.  If a slug happens to find a plant before a pellet, then..

    Try sprinkling pellets around the periphery rather than in the middle.  Beer traps also work really well.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Netty9dNetty9d Posts: 5

    I did use slug pellets. Many thanks for your response.

    I will try that Bob, but as its just the center of the plants eaten at 15cm high, i'm not sure it is slugs?

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