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- Sat Sep 28, 2019 7:04 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Our changing slug population
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Re: Our changing slug population
... I fleetingly thought of flushing them down our toilet but knowing their tenacity I had a horror of visiting the downstairs loo this morning and discovering all 30 of them had painstakingly crawled back up the sewage pipe and were all cosily nestling around the inner pedestal rim! No thank you !...
- Tue Sep 10, 2019 9:17 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Our changing slug population
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8012
Re: Our changing slug population
OMG, I feel sick now!
- Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:54 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Our changing slug population
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8012
Re: Our changing slug population
http://www.slugwatch.co.uk/?page_id=21 That's put me right off my food, Alan! It seems that to properly identify my slugs, I would have to have a much closer look at them. I think I'll pass on that! Though this has reminded me of a childhood prank my sons once played on their grandparents. Do you r...
- Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:39 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Our changing slug population
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8012
Re: Our changing slug population
... but it is probably no coincidence that our thrush numbers are down here.
- Tue Sep 10, 2019 7:38 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Our changing slug population
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8012
Re: Our changing slug population
After lower numbers of snails for a few years, I have seen a huge increase in their numbers again this year in my garden.
Isn't it strange how these things come and go, and with no obvious pattern across the country!
Isn't it strange how these things come and go, and with no obvious pattern across the country!
- Mon Sep 09, 2019 11:45 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Our changing slug population
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8012
Re: Our changing slug population
I also keep uncovering what definitely look like strange-coloured slug eggs - a variety of colours - when I start digging over in spring. As I haven't bought in any garden centre /nursery plants that might have the slug-egg-sized fertiliser in them, I can't think what else they could be, and when I ...
- Mon Sep 09, 2019 11:37 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Our changing slug population
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8012
Re: Our changing slug population
Primrose wrote: [...] I suspect I may approach my next roast duck and orange salad meal with slightly less enthusiasm after reading about their diet preferences!
My thoughts exactly, Primrose
- Mon Sep 09, 2019 9:51 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Our changing slug population
- Replies: 26
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Re: Our changing slug population
I'm about to go and remove some marrow plants now that the village show is over - there are probably loads lurking under them!
- Mon Sep 09, 2019 9:49 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Our changing slug population
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8012
Re: Our changing slug population
I need ducks then - though the greenish horrors are so repulsive that i find it hard to imagine that even ducks would want them!
- Mon Sep 09, 2019 8:39 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Our changing slug population
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8012
Our changing slug population
Over the 20-so years that we have lived in our present house, the large (in both size and quantity) garden slug population has changed completely! For years, we had the typical big black slugs, but it struck me recently that I can't remember when I last saw one. They have been completely replaced by...
- Sat Aug 24, 2019 7:24 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Summer Bits and Bobs
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Re: Summer Bits and Bobs
I haven't had one cucumber yet this year! One of my two plants was shoved into the only space left in the packed garden, a small, half-shaded spot at the base of a eucalyptus tree that I killed off last year. It's actually got some fruits on it now, which is more than can be said for the other plant...
- Sun Sep 09, 2018 1:15 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Pa Snip Enterprise visits Agricultural Show
- Replies: 46
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Re: Pa Snip Enterprise visits Agricultural Show
Blilmy, Robo, that' s impressive!
Well done, Pa Snip. You must have put in the work on your plot, despite everything else, in order to do so well
Well done, Pa Snip. You must have put in the work on your plot, despite everything else, in order to do so well
- Fri Sep 07, 2018 8:10 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: How to present non-alcoholic beverage in village show
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5179
Re: How to present non-alcoholic beverage in village show
Pa Snip wrote:
Benching due by 10am Sat 8/9. Have not even started getting entries ready.
1 x Strawberry Jam,
1 x Marmalade
13 entries in veg class
4 entries in photographic
Mrs S has entered some floral stems.
Good luck to you both
- Fri Sep 07, 2018 8:07 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: How to present non-alcoholic beverage in village show
- Replies: 11
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Re: How to present non-alcoholic beverage in village show
BTW Mouse tell Mr Mouse his "assistance" could get your entry marked "Not as schedule" because the schedule specifies a bottle of cordial. It should specify the bottle type (colour), labelling and presentation, just as onions have to have the top tied. Thanks again - it's only a...
- Fri Sep 07, 2018 7:53 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Pa Snip Enterprise visits Agricultural Show
- Replies: 46
- Views: 15053
Re: Pa Snip Enterprise visits Agricultural Show
I agree 100%, Monica, and already have some entries lined up that are far from perfect - in fact, I am not sure yet if any of my huge number of vegetable/ flower entries will be up to scratch this year. (I thing I am probably the most prolific entrant in our show, putting in a lot of veg, crafts, pr...