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I have a colony of slugs in my Darlek Will slug killer pellets harm the worms?
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Best place for slugs is in your Dalek! They re the ones helping your compost along , put the pellets around your plants to kill the less helpful slugs that haven't got the message
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Yes, I agree with snakeshack. If I find leopard slugs in the garden (the big blotchy coloured ones)or the big orange ones, I put them in the dalek, because they prefer dead and dying plant tissue, and will help turn it into compost. It's the tiny black b@ggers that do the damage in my garden.
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I just freaked out when I saw so many!!!!!!!!!!
they are mostly the little black ones but i have seen some of the big orange ones.
so leave alone and chuck em back into the Dalek when I empty it
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How do you make sure you don't transplant slug eggs into your garden when you spread the compost?Comment
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If you leave your compost until it's properly broken down there will be nothing left for the slugs to eat so they won't lay their eggs, they'll move to where there's more food. As previously mentioned, they enjoy dead or dying plant material and properly made compost is neither.Comment
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The only good slug is a dead one. I hate em.photo album of my garden in my profile http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...my+garden.htmlComment
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Two sides to every question
I think, on reelection, I am on the dead slug brigade
BUT. WHAT EFFECT WILL SLUG KILLER HAVE ON THE WORMS...????You grow it; I'l tell you how to cook itComment
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I am not sure, not am i sure if the chemicals in the slug pellets might go into the compost and subsequently into your food. If you do it I would only use the minimum amount to do the job. Get a few worms in a tin of compost and sprinkle some pellets on to see how they do is the best I can come up with.photo album of my garden in my profile http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...my+garden.htmlComment
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I'm not sure whether or not the pellets will kill the worms, I'd be more worried about killing the local slug eating wildlife - hedgehogs, frogs, toads, birds and their predators, like cats.A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard NimoyComment
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You shouldn't put slug pellets in your compost heap.Originally posted by Ken the Chef View Post
Slugs in the heap are doing a good job, let them get on with it. Use slug pellets, sparingly, around vulnerable crops, eg. lettuce, strawbs, young beans
You don't need to use them on everything, and you shouldn't use very many: only about one per 4 inchesAll gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.Comment
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Slug pellets are a moluscicide and are not nice in the food chain.
Use slug pellets and your compost will not rot down as quickly as you are destroying not only the visible molusk's but the microbial molusks that complete the composting process.
Apart from that, the compost will be used on food crops I presume? Do you really want to be eating slug pellet residue?
Do you want your crops inbibing slug pellet chemicals?
I would say, either put up with the slugs in the compost heap or do away with the compost heap, send your waste to land fill, and pay a fortune for compost that at one time would have been full of slugs!
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