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My husband built me a cold frame and it is sitting next to my greenhouse. Pretty standard type - built from left over wood with a glass top. It doesn’t have a base and sits on the ground. Yesterday I discovered lots of slugs had been at my lettuce seedlings which were in pots in a tray with a cover- not sure how they got in. Is there something I could put on the base of the cold frame to stop this?
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A beer trap
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Second beer trap.
Where there's soil there'll be slugs. If they can't get in through the bottom they can climb up the sides and sneak in through cracks.
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Slugs can get anywhere - I put an old rug under mine and then filled the frame with a few inches of gravel. They still get in, but only the very very determined ones. I have resorted once or twice to putting down a large gravel tray, filling it with an inch of water, then putting my seed trays on bricks in the water. I really wanted those seedlings to make it, and I’m pretty sure slugs are non-swimmers.He-Pep!Comment
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I've done the same thing bario and the only slugs I saw were under the seed trays when I dismantled everything my seedling were fineOriginally posted by bario1 View Post
Location....East Midlands.Comment
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Check the holes at the bottom of the pots,they like it there there’s more moisture near the roots.Location : EssexComment
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I might have a bit of carpet and could take some gravel from the front. Determined wee buggers aren’t they. Can’t work out how they got into a tray that had no holes on the bottom and had a lid. Thanks for all the advice. Will sow some more lettuce I guess. For now have put them on the greenhouse shelves.Comment
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Slugs can make themselves remarkably thin. I have seen quite big ones squeeze out of my hotbin when closed, and I've also had small ones escape from a jar with the top screwed on.A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard NimoyComment
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How about using copper sheets as I've found that copper tape in a couple of layers works quite well.
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Watching gardeners world last night. Looks like they use gravel in their cold frames.Comment
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Could there have been some slug eggs in the compost you used?Comment
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Worth looking on youtube for "slugs climbing copper"
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