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    What have the Slugs/Snails ruined for you this year?

    I had a load of beetroot growing in some modules which weren't really growing very much. After some advice on this forum I was advised to put them in the garden as beetroot don't like being in small modules.

    I did exactly that and planted them all into their final positions and they all started to grow brilliantly.

    Then the other day I went out to see how they were getting on and to my horror found that ALL of them had been munched to bits. Literally down to the stem. Only a tiny bit of leaf left on each of them.

    At this point I decided to start some more off in a large pot which I will prick out once they are looking good.

    Today I went and looked at the first lot of beetroot I put in my garden and there is absolutely nothing left of them. Slugs and/or snails have literally stripped them bare to the point where there isn't even a trace of them left.

    I've been growing the buggers since March and now have to start all over again. Fuming!
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    The beetroot I planted out in my friend's garden have been badly shredded, even though she uses slug pellets. We haven't had that many slugs here this year as its generally been rather dry, but my rhubarb leaves are being eaten by something (I suspect some type of moth caterpillar - I had big problems with silver Y moth a couple of years ago).

    Lots of cuckoo spit about this year especially on the strawberries, which is a bit of a pain.
    A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Penellype View Post
      The beetroot I planted out in my friend's garden have been badly shredded, even though she uses slug pellets. We haven't had that many slugs here this year as its generally been rather dry, but my rhubarb leaves are being eaten by something (I suspect some type of moth caterpillar - I had big problems with silver Y moth a couple of years ago).

      Lots of cuckoo spit about this year especially on the strawberries, which is a bit of a pain.
      I use slug pellets as well all around my garden including where my beetroots were. It never worked.

      I have also noticed lots of cuckoo spit too. I harvested my oregano plant the other day (so I could dry it and keep it in a jar as a dry herb) to encourage it to grow back even more thickly and I had to remove loads of cuckoo spit.

      I didn't kill them though, I just placed them onto other leaves to let them get on with turning into froghoppers. There was no need to kill them.

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      • #4
        The slugs and snails have not been too bad for me this season so far. They felled a couple of sunflowers, made a mess of some daffodils, munched a few sweet peas and have done some damage to my brassicas but compared to last year they've been tolerable.

        Hopefully they'll leave me most of my potatoes and carrots, these were badly hit last year.
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        • #5
          Munched ALL my runner bean seedlings!!
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          • #6
            Not had a problem with slugs this year,but thy have started on my hostas now
            Dogs have masters, cats have slaves, and horses are just wonderful

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            • #7
              Three runner bean plants (though they might bounce back) I put it down as a 'Nature tithe'.
              Pain is still pain, suffering is still suffering, regardless of whoever, or whatever, is the victim.
              Everything is worthy of kindness.

              http://thegentlebrethren.wordpress.com

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              • #8
                A few lettuce but only in one particular planter. Other than that no slug problems yet.
                Mind you we have a hedgehog come in from next door, a herd of sparrows (and some blackbirds) living in the hedge and a small frog so maybe pest control for a while is sorted.

                My biggest problem is the hedgehog that must have mole genes somewhere as it likes digging up a low bed.
                I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison

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                • #9
                  Nothing major so far. Had an odd nibble at my radishes but that's it. Haven't seen many about either.
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                  • #10
                    Well... they've decimated some brassica seedlings still in modules on a bench in the garden, ditto a tray of dahlia seedlings. They demolished half my broad beans before I collared the rest with plastic rings cut from bottles with serrated scissors. And 'something', I believe slugs or snails, has just munched their way through the bulk of my previously thriving butternut squash seedlings, some down to stumps and some with just half their stems eaten away.... Oh the joys of gardening .
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                    • #11
                      They have killed a few of my sunflowers but so far not too bad

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                      • #12
                        Some damage but the only losses to date are a couple of lettuces - five years of collecting night after night is finally paying off as when we started probably three quarters of everything got noshed.
                        It is so disheartening after putting in such much time for stuff to just disappear overnight.
                        Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/

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                        • #13
                          Thankfully I don't have a problem with slugs out here because it is too hot and dry for them. Snails on the other hand are ENORMOUS!!!!!!!!!! They are easily seen and lobbed over the terrace for a free-fall of about 40 feet
                          Just think happy thoughts

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                          • #14
                            Slugs and snails not a lot of problem for me here in Kent.

                            Flea beetles, every where

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                            • #15
                              Slugs kept me away from growing much for about a decade. This time i am only growing stuff in containers which i put copper tape on. So far so good. I also put some stuff on several tiers of crates to see if slugs would get to them and it seems like they can't be bothered to climb them. They seem more interested in our food waste wheelie bin where they gorge themselves and get huge.

                              I went out to look a bit before dawn but never saw a single slug. I know they are around however as i saw trails all over... they tried to get to my stuff but apparently the copper tape works. I followed one trail with salt in hand and found a slug but a centipede was eating it. lol

                              Then one day i left the house and found 3 biggish slugs baking on the driveway. No idea why... family theorized that they got stunned crazy by the copper tape but perhaps they gorged some slug pellets from the neighbours gardens.

                              Perhaps it is because i am in Scotland but cuckoo spit and flea beatles are things i've never even seen... or maybe i just dunno what it looks like... mostly slugs, birds, foxes, cats and the weather are my main enemies.

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