On the BBC webpage it states there will be a slug explosion due to the mild winter, it states the average garden has an average of 2000 slugs harbouring and they lay 200 eggs per cubic metre. Seems a bit over the top to me.
hopefully once the blackbirds and thrushes get going ( mine are tossing mulch about with gay abandon in their searching ) there will be an explosion of them too.
Me and hubby were discussing slugs this morning and we're going to try drowning them in real ale this year in order to avoid slug pellets. If they don't like Scruttocks Old Original then they really do have very poor taste for invertebrates.
As I understand it - and I should like very much to be corrected here - nematode applications only last for about six weeks and are very expensive. I do use slug pellets when I have to, reluctantly, but I would welcome an affordable alternative. I don't have to worry about hedgehogs: the badgers drove them away more than twenty years ago. I would need to treat about a third of an acre if I didn't do the grass.
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Slug explosion sounds messy, but definitely environmentally friendly.
hopefully once the blackbirds and thrushes get going ( mine are tossing mulch about with gay abandon in their searching ) there will be an explosion of them too.
Blood and feathers everywhere!
Slugs will explode very well if you go around the garden with a meat skewer.
Haha pansyface, i'm off to hide in my bunker.
Me and hubby were discussing slugs this morning and we're going to try drowning them in real ale this year in order to avoid slug pellets. If they don't like Scruttocks Old Original then they really do have very poor taste for invertebrates.
Aha! If you're expecting a visit from the M5 or M6 you must be near Birmingham!
I like chopping them with a trowel
And unfortunately tempting the novice viewers with slug pellets as a result. Just another factor to contribute to the hedgehog decline.
A few slug facts its 20,000 only 5% live above ground active above 5c lay up to 200 eggs 7 times a year what a battle
As I understand it - and I should like very much to be corrected here - nematode applications only last for about six weeks and are very expensive. I do use slug pellets when I have to, reluctantly, but I would welcome an affordable alternative. I don't have to worry about hedgehogs: the badgers drove them away more than twenty years ago. I would need to treat about a third of an acre if I didn't do the grass.