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Post by debbiem on Apr 10, 2007 21:47:26 GMT 1
Same here, Plocket, but I can't help admiring their good looks. Our main flower bed where all the Euphorbias hang out is about 18" raised off the ground and doesn't lend to going there, luckily.
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Post by maggyd on Apr 10, 2007 22:32:38 GMT 1
Well in my garden I think its down to my mucky little pup who has developed a taste for them I keep finding him crunching them yuk!!  Is that whats upsetting his tum.......you don't use slug pellets do you?  I don't use slug pellets until I put in my annuals sweetleaf or the hostas are showing through but I don't think Ill be able to this year mucky pup eats anything he has brought in every banana skin that I have put down for months. :  |
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Post by Sleepy on Apr 10, 2007 22:34:31 GMT 1
Is that whats upsetting his tum.......you don't use slug pellets do you? I don't use slug pellets until I put in my annuals sweetleaf or the hostas are showing through but I don't think Ill be able to this year mucky pup eats anything he has brought in every banana skin that I have put down for months. : I hang banana skins around my tomatoes when their ripening starts to slow down. Everyone thinks I'm crazy |
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Post by plocket on Apr 11, 2007 9:38:28 GMT 1
I do that with unripe avocados Sleepy - isn't Nature clever?
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Post by The witch on Apr 11, 2007 11:48:23 GMT 1
I'm like the slugs - not keen on Euphorbias either.  |
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Post by plocket on Apr 11, 2007 13:35:12 GMT 1
I've got six different ones and I really like them. LP just has to stay away from them - I think that people should learn to respect plants rather than not have them if they are poisonous or whatever - if they like them that is!!! ;D
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Post by debbiem on Apr 18, 2007 12:10:22 GMT 1
They're coming out....slowly....the slugs....they've been munching. Caught me right out.  |
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Post by plocket on Apr 18, 2007 13:13:12 GMT 1
My Markham's Pink has been decimated by them - I've had to dig it up and am going to try and nurture it so that it has a chance of surviving. There isn't a leaf left on it And I was really really evil today - I found a big fat slug right next to my poor clem (before I dug it up) so I snipped it in half with my secateurs. I felt really cruel afterwards and was positively sickened by what happened to the poor thing |
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Post by The witch on Apr 18, 2007 22:04:16 GMT 1
Do you use beer traps P?
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Post by debbiem on Apr 19, 2007 6:35:03 GMT 1
At least it was a quicker and more painless end for it than slug pellets and the like. |
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Post by plocket on Apr 19, 2007 8:17:49 GMT 1
I tried beer traps but the slugs avoided them like the plague! I put a cunning trap out last week - a plastic box with blue pellets in it, and a little hole cut out for the slugs to get in. Not a flicker of interest!
I'm not going to do the snipping thing again - it was too traumatic - for me!
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Post by sweetleaf on Apr 19, 2007 13:21:46 GMT 1
Dont dwell on it, its gone to a better place, I bet in slug heaven Clematis isnt off the menu  |
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Post by plocket on Apr 19, 2007 13:36:51 GMT 1
Humph!!! I don't even want to start thinking that slugs go to heaven!!!!! ;D
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