Do they live in families? there were 2 big ones and 6 babies - I reckon if you can find a couple and make a little enclosed home from home for them you could feed all the moluscs to them -pet slug destroyershow do you dispose of snails?
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sue-the-recycler
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I moved some membrane that had been piled up in a corner and discovered why my veg plot at home was seemingly free of snails and slugs and nearly had a heart attack when about 8 toads lept for cover!! Do they live in families? there were 2 big ones and 6 babies - I reckon if you can find a couple and make a little enclosed home from home for them you could feed all the moluscs to them -pet slug destroyers
Do they live in families? there were 2 big ones and 6 babies - I reckon if you can find a couple and make a little enclosed home from home for them you could feed all the moluscs to them -pet slug destroyers
My neighbour told me that her Uncle puts them in a box filled with thyme for 48 hours, this gets rid of all the garbage slugs have eaten. Which then makes them edible. Pour moi a size four boot or a salt bucket does the trick without a shudder, especially after they have eaten all my beans.
Patience be damned. If slugs & snails eat my produce, they will be killed. I can't throw them over the wall, knowing that they come straight back, and get their revenge by munching all the veg. So, if killed without the use of salt or pesticides, some creature will come along and devour the remains 
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Colin_M
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Excuse me, because I'm sure this must have come up already on another thread.
Can anyone explain what the problems are with using Slug Pellets?
I've heard before that they're supposed to be a danger to birds. Can anyone give some background to this?
Colin
Can anyone explain what the problems are with using Slug Pellets?
I've heard before that they're supposed to be a danger to birds. Can anyone give some background to this?
Colin
Hi Colin,
I very much doubt that anybody can give you a satisfactory answer to this one.
They are said to harm every living thing but the manufacturers were forced to change the chemicals in the formula and this is when the Organic Myth and Legend began. Certainly with the old formula it was possible to cause damage to wildlife and one presumes Human Beings if they were stupid enough to eat them. In practice birds and animals didn't eat these pellets but because they were chemicals the Organic scare tactics were employed.
Hedgehogs were said to eat infected Slugs and Snails
but as an example I have used both new and old pellets in my thirty odd years here and the Hedgehogs have been captive within a Rabbit Fence for the last 25 years (plus) and they are thriving here. I have Snakes and Slow worms, Frogs, Toads and Newts and Birds in great numbers and I place my pellets rather than scatter them and they never seem to disappear nor do I see the supposed carnage.
I am trialling the new type Advanced pellet said to be harmless to everything but Mollusc's but although they are doing a fair job they are not as effective as the conventional pellet. The new pellets do not seem to attract Keeled Slugs which are the ones that damage your spuds and eat off a row of newly emerged Carrots. For this purpose I will still be protecting with conventional pellets.
I went to a place this morning that was selling the Advanced Pellets as part of a Summer sale and they were marked at £1.50 a tin so bought half a dozen so I suppose I intend to keep on using them.
In another thread I wrote to Mole and said that I grew quite a large patch of Lettuce as sacrificial crop and truth to tell I really have quite a decent edible crop so in the main the new pellets work.
JB.
I very much doubt that anybody can give you a satisfactory answer to this one.
They are said to harm every living thing but the manufacturers were forced to change the chemicals in the formula and this is when the Organic Myth and Legend began. Certainly with the old formula it was possible to cause damage to wildlife and one presumes Human Beings if they were stupid enough to eat them. In practice birds and animals didn't eat these pellets but because they were chemicals the Organic scare tactics were employed.
Hedgehogs were said to eat infected Slugs and Snails
but as an example I have used both new and old pellets in my thirty odd years here and the Hedgehogs have been captive within a Rabbit Fence for the last 25 years (plus) and they are thriving here. I have Snakes and Slow worms, Frogs, Toads and Newts and Birds in great numbers and I place my pellets rather than scatter them and they never seem to disappear nor do I see the supposed carnage.
I am trialling the new type Advanced pellet said to be harmless to everything but Mollusc's but although they are doing a fair job they are not as effective as the conventional pellet. The new pellets do not seem to attract Keeled Slugs which are the ones that damage your spuds and eat off a row of newly emerged Carrots. For this purpose I will still be protecting with conventional pellets.
I went to a place this morning that was selling the Advanced Pellets as part of a Summer sale and they were marked at £1.50 a tin so bought half a dozen so I suppose I intend to keep on using them.
In another thread I wrote to Mole and said that I grew quite a large patch of Lettuce as sacrificial crop and truth to tell I really have quite a decent edible crop so in the main the new pellets work.
JB.
Maybe we should all send ours to Maz, we might get a grant from the sports council for the postage!
David
ps I pellet where the dogs and kids cant get at them, then introduce others to a bucket with pellets in. When I go to the tip I take the bucket of bodies and let the council bury them in a landfill.
David
ps I pellet where the dogs and kids cant get at them, then introduce others to a bucket with pellets in. When I go to the tip I take the bucket of bodies and let the council bury them in a landfill.
Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids.
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CradleyMike
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We use a range of methods, some are dropped in the compost bins, some fly over the fence into the nettle patch. If the damage is too great we resort to pellets, normally the young brassicas that are under netting.
Mike