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Slugs and slugs and more slug
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:17 pm
by John
Help
In this prolonged spell of warm wet weather the slugs are really flourishing here. Everything I pick up in the garden has a nice collection of them underneath it. Even the chickens have got fed up with eating them.
Time to pop out and get some pellets before we are totally overwhelmed.
John
Re: Slugs and slugs and more slug
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 1:26 pm
by Redfox
Was on the plot yesterday and i must have moved/killed about 50 of the little terrors,
fortunately it was on an area not yet planted up
Have put sheep pellets down around my peas and beans and this seams to be working to some degree. However I do use the blue pellets where there is cover by netting/fleece.
Jane
Re: Slugs and slugs and more slug
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 2:40 pm
by Kleftiwallah
I use "Slug Clear" a liquid concentrate. Diluted and watered onto the soil so I don't have to wait for the divvils to eat a blue pellet, it sinks into the soil and gets them there. Safe for pets and wildlife too.
Cheers, Tony.
Re: Slugs and slugs and more slug
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:58 pm
by Arnie
Hi Kleftiwallah,
Please tell me that you are only using this on flowers & shrubs and not Vegetables
as it should not go anywhere near your vegetables.
Regards
Arnie
Re: Slugs and slugs and more slug
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 5:32 pm
by Geoff
Echo that
Product Description
Slug Clear Liquid
- For use on flowering and ornamental garden plants
- 250ml makes 75ltr of solution, treats up to 67m²
- Kills slugs and snails
- Invisible to pests
- DO NOT use near edible crops
Re: Slugs and slugs and more slug
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 6:08 pm
by Gerry
In fact, a couple of years ago, I contacted Scotts (the makers of Slug Clear) to enquire how long ground, which had been treated with this, should be left before growing edible crops on it.
At least a year they said.
Regards, Gerry.
Re: Slugs and slugs and more slug
Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 7:13 pm
by vegpatchmum
It is at times like this that my role as a supportive wife to a Series Landy Owner who is trying to restore his much loved Series 2 Truck (which currently involves stripping back, primering and then top coating all the battered and moth eaten body panels for which he needs drought like conditions
) is at complete odds with my roles as home and school veg gardener, who can't but help feel relieved at the prospect of not having to spend 2-3 hrs each day, water by watering can, two veg patches, and assorted tubs, posts and baskets.
Have to say that the gardener in me is winning at the moment
VPM
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