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Big blobs of clear jelly!
Mollycat2
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When weeding this afternoon I found quite significant balls of clear jelly - some as big as...... 3 grapes! They were not joined by tracks of jelly and were throughout the border, largely out in the open. It was in 2 particular areas, one shade and one sun.Are these large blobs slug related? I tried to pick it all up and threw it in the waste....or just dug some in the soil! It is a relatively new garden and we actually had very few slug related 'injuries' last year. Should I prepare myself !!!?
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I think they're the water retention stuff that is in some compost and growbags - when they get thoroughly soaked they look blobs of jelly.
As far as I'm aware slug and snail eggs come in clutches, and are much smaller than 3 grapes!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Is it like any of these?
Pam x
http://uk.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=slv8-msgr&va=jelly+fungus
I wish I hadn't looked at those! Yuck. In the past I have found lumps of snail/slug eggs but I don't believe that they were as big as 3 grapes. Also, they were not out in the open, they were in damp nooks and crannies.
I know exactly the kind of blobs your talking about. I found a few in my pots after a heavy rainfall last week, they've since disappeared. I wouldn't worry to much about them - sorry but I can't give a definitive answer, but I reckon its probably just water retentive gel, as they didn't appear to be anything inside them.
Sorry KG I only put the link on because I remember someone asking about jelly blobs somewhere else Some of the fungus does look like grapes
Pam x
Can you spot the round jelly ball in picture... it was found Aug 31, 2017 along with many others, on the wooden walkway and up on the wooden porch . Many remained for several days. The one captured in photo was over 24 hrs old and you could still see thru the jelly substance. I froze some , put some in alcohol and they shrunk , but still remained translucent . Whatever it is I found it really weird that it was the first time I had ever seen or heard of anything like the jelly spheres...jst asking ! .... anybody else find any!
You've lost me, glkaystanton! I can't see any picture either
Maybe it's just me
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I tried looking in the avatar pic but it's too small.
Could you upload a picture by using the little camers icon top right of the text box please? Giz a better squizz at what we're looking for...
I have seen this gel up in the Berwyn hills in Wales. I walking up
in the hills in the rain about 8 weeks ago and discovered it on the moors in the middle of nowhere. Here is a pictureYou can get the scale based on the blades of grass.
I didnt tiuch it and assumed it was a slime mold. But there is very little information available to confirm my assumption.