Yet Another Cycling Forum
Random Musings => Miscellany => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: onb on 24 April, 2008, 03:30:27 pm
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Why is it they eat everything but bindweed. :(
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Why would they want the bindweed when you're providing them with such tasty and tender fare?
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Is it time to release the nematodes?
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i prefer the beer option.
you don't bother to leave it in little saucers for them - you simply drink enough of it yourself so you no longer care the little buggers are eating everything in sight.
i've got some copper tape this to wrap around my raised beds. i've also built a pond in the vain hope of attracting frogs
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You need this... 50 Ways to Kill a Slug :thumbsup:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/0600608581/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
Lots of non-slug pellet options... I quite often throw slugs into our pond, which last year had 20-25 frogs in it...
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My mother swears by used ground coffee. I quite like an early morning/late evening wander round the garden with a jar of salty water, pop the buggers in it and then tip onto the compost heap when they're deffo dead. It's almost as satisfying as picking scabs. We have a decent frog population, but last year they were no match for the slugs.
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There were two woodies on my back garden yesterday evening munching up the little ones.
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i've also built a pond in the vain hope of attracting frogs
I think that you'll find that they prefer snails...
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Crushed egg shells round the strawberry plants seem to help.
They're also free and non-toxic.
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Could you keep hedgehogs in your garden and tie them to a post with string, then they can't escape and will eat all your slugs for you?