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Talkback: Slugs
! :) I sympathize with you all. I have these massive brown slugs and two residential hedgehogs which look like they are ready to explode because they have eaten soon many! At night my back garden path looks like something out of a horror scene. Even my by Elisabeth Telford
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28/11/2011 18:37:13
by sumguywhoneedshelp
Talkback: Slugs and snails and pussycat tails
to reach places and there were small (baby?) slugs under virtually every other leaf. They were also hidden under heuchera leaves and primroses. Hopefully I made a dent in the population - I must have picked up 200 of the horrible things! Adopt a hedgehog by geoff fearn
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21/05/2012 22:06:16
by blairs
Talkback: Hummingbird hawkmoths and bumblebees
on the different varieties but have enjoyed standing and watching their endeavours. Butterflies which year have been prolific and for the first time in many many years hedgehogs have again taken ownership of our modest garden. The 3,000 acre farmland around us by ssbattison
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28/11/2011 18:39:27
by Ruth White
Nettles
as possible and use no chemicals except for glyphosate every year on the paths between our veggie beds and the cobbled area at the front of the house.  My garden is heaving with insects and birds and we have hedgehogs and voles and frogs and toads and newts by Wendy8
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07/08/2012 12:20:46
by obelixx
children and gardening
. Usually things that grew quickly, like radish and lettuce so that they could see results within a few weeks and keep them interested. They also loved to help harvesting, especially strawberries! Hello Hedgehog, It's heartening to hear that you kept your by Emma Crawforth
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27/02/2012 15:44:52
by decdore
cm holes in my lawn and dead grass
of thatch (dead grass) which needs raking out, it wouldn't have taken much  scrabbling by a bird to make that mess - or it could've been squirrels  or jays burying nuts.  Or it might possibly be hedgehogs looking for worms, beetles etc, and gathering by Omen
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14/10/2012 13:39:08
by Omen
christmas tree
year as required, until it too I hope will find a grateful new  home elsewhere when we are no longer able to accommodate it. When are those Xmas smileys going to be available? I have been feeding 3 hedgehogs dogmeat since late oct .they have a nest by flowering rose
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03/12/2012 21:46:49
by Zoomer44
Animal rescue...
in the garden with her and a book. Anyone else ever rescued an animal and what was the outcome? A hedgehog couldn't get out of large pond at our old house , OH saw it thrashing around, we brought it out, wrapped it up warm and made little warm box with blanket by Sam Glendinning
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01/03/2013 17:33:42
by Sam Glendinning
Easy care plants
for butterflies are easy and how about scabious which children find very pretty (little pincushion flowers) and are great for bees and butterflies too. My girls loved dianthus which I had in a big clump beside the path and they called it the hedgehog! Very tactile by The Artist
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23/05/2013 23:08:16
by HOLEDIGGER
Talkback: Bees at Gardeners' World Live
't produced any veg yet, shall i scrap it? Also, do hedgehogs eat lots of worms as well as slugs (and snails?), I'm contemplating getting a rescued hedgehog for my garden! Mrs Cullen - the loud buzzing is just the queen bee warning potential predators to stay by Patricia bowers
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28/11/2011 18:38:52
by bunnysgarden