slug pellets

[ioan]

Hi
Is it ok to mix slug pellets in with the potting compost, for growing veg ?
kind regards
ioan

[Scarlet]

I wouldn't. If you have slugs you only need a few pellets around your plants, they don't need to be heavily sprinkled.
What are you sowing, will they be in pots or straight in the ground?

[ioan]

I wouldn't. If you have slugs you only need a few pellets around your plants, they don't need to be heavily sprinkled.
What are you sowing, will they be in pots or straight in the ground?

Hi
trying to get my spuds going in pots in the greenhouse, if I put pellets around the newly planted tubers, do I leave them in
when I start earthing up the new growth? or just leave them in the various top up layers.
I mean are they, or can they be, in someway toxic?
I had thought about putting lots around the gravel the pots will be stood on
kind regards
ioan

[Scarlet]

I've never used slug pellets, so I'm probably not the best person to give advice though I do grow early spuds in buckets in the GH and never had a problem with slugs. They usually go for the easier stuff on the benches, although I can't see that they would be a problem if your buckets are sat on gravel - that should stop them. Or put a few around your pots if you have a big problem with slugs - I wouldn't put them in the buckets.

[Shadylane]

Our spuds on the allotment get slugged and just about everything at home gets slugged. But potatoes grown in buckets are always hole and slug damage free. I wouldn't bother with them.

[greenishfing]

Although my allotment seems to be a holiday camp for slugs and snails ( I am planning all out war this year) they have never touched my new potatoes even though they have decimated the maincrop potatoes and strawberries.

[Potstubsdustbins]

One of the good things about growing in containers placed on a hard standing is that you can use slug pellets around the bottom of the container without any chance of contaminating your growing medium.

Do be aware though they will harm other life forms as well as slugs, including pets if you have any. Used with care and sparingly they can really help with a bad slug problem.

[ioan]

Thanks for all your advice much appreciated.
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail, thats what they say.
thanks to you I will be prepared, dib dibs....
kind regards
ioan

[Snadger]

The bran in slug pellets goes mouldy very quickly. I would also be wary of putting a poison against spuds I intend eating!

[Bohobumble]

I think the best advice I have heard is sprinkle a little around the edge of your bed/garden. After all its attracts the blighters so you don't want too much, and on the perimeter to pull them away from your crops.

Limits the amount of nasty chemicals in the soil.

I shall use the organic ones as a last resort, wildlife pond is about to be installed, as are marmite jar slug traps filled with homemade beer

[Bohobumble]

Oh and that nemaslug malarky.... have seen how to grow your own nematode slug killers on here and I'm rather tempted to try that too.