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    This will be my first serious year for growing last year I had a lot of veg eaten by the usuall cuprits so what I want to know is what to use and when to use it the array of available stuff is bewildering I mainly want to stop attacks on brassicas legums and carrot slugs and snails I can deak with maually likewise cabbage white larvae but the burrowing and sub soil egg laying villians are a different story all help will be welcome
    thanks Devlin

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    Have a browse through the Pests & Diseases forum, you'll find lots of answers.

    In a nutshell:
    - Butterfly netting for brassicas
    - Fleece/voile for carrots
    - What attacks your legumes? Mice? If so, sow into pots and transplant
    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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    • #3
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      Hi Devlin. I had to deal with all these when I first starting growing my own, But I am learning. The advise you have been given is good. What I can't cope with is the cat from no. 3.
      There's pleasure sure in being mad that only madmen know - Anon

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      • #4
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        Forgot to say....no, I don't want a dog.
        There's pleasure sure in being mad that only madmen know - Anon

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        • #5
          Cats: stick short spiky sticks where they try and go; like battlements. Or, use chicken wire made into cloche type covers until the crops get big enough to withstand the cats.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by ann-the-nan View Post
            Forgot to say....no, I don't want a dog.
            Our dog doesn't seem to deter the things anyway
            Urban Escape Blog

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            • #7
              I have heavy clay soil and was advised not to use nematodes, so I tried Bio-friend slug banish from Victoriana Nurseries. It does seem to have done a good job.
              History teaches us that history teaches us nothing. - Hegel

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              • #8
                Originally posted by zazen999 View Post
                Cats: stick short spiky sticks where they try and go; like battlements. Or, use chicken wire made into cloche type covers until the crops get big enough to withstand the cats.
                Thank you!! I have terrible trouble with cats, one neighbour has 3 and the other 6!! They use our garden as their toilet

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                • #9
                  we did'nt have much luck either - we lost LOADS! so we've gone down the enviromesh route on wooden frames. Fingers crossed it'll work - we've spent alot of time and a fair bit of ££'s to knock them together

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