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  • Slug warnings - get those nematodes/traps/pellets ready!

    Yikes!

    'Sleepless slugs' on rise, say experts - BBC News
    http://mudandgluts.com - growing fruit and veg in suburbia

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    Was on radio 3 bnews at 8 this morning



    He who smiles in the face of adversity,has already decided who to blame

    Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity

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    • #3
      Definitely vastly more slugs around this year.
      A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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      • #4
        Tell me about it

        Was wondering why none of the carrots I sowed were appearing - they were and as soon as they did the flipping slugs got them.

        There must be so many of the critters that the 3 robins who regularly visit my plot can't gobble them up (either that or they are bearded bloke's giant slugs).
        Last edited by KairdiffKid; 29-04-2016, 10:43 AM.

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        • #5
          Markable increase on last year :S

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          • #6
            Indeed, there have been a lot of slugs about this winter and spring. My daffodils were savaged. Savaged! And my overwintering onions have been fiercely attacked too.
            My gardening blog: In Spades, last update 30th April 2018.
            Chrysanthemum notes page here.

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            • #7
              Slugs are definitely abundant on my plot this year. They have been tipping the asparagus. Although judicious use of slug pellets are now keeping them at bay.

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              • #8
                Combination of nematodes, copper tape around every raised bed/pot and slug pellets have done the job so far, not one plant touched. *touches wood

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                • #9
                  I have lost a raised bed of carrots and one of parsnips, all in one night last week, so now its WAR.......I wish I still had my chooks, they would have cleared the slimy ones in no time..

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                  • #10
                    Snugs! (sorry Alison, I know you don't like me saying that). Again I seem to already have far more acrobatic snails than slugs, but they still do as much damage. I found a big one munching through an aubergine in the stayput. I have a cunning plan to protect them in the future which I will share if it works
                    Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                    • #11
                      I love snugs! the word that is, not the pesky so and so's

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