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Talkback: Emptying the compost bin

Hedgehog for years and I haven't seen a slow worm ever,Just Sid your Black Bird and a couple of woody's eating the leave's on my golden plumb.Dave Oldchippy. My compost bin has worked very well over the years but this year it is jammed in the middle by oldchippy

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08/06/2012 14:06:52

by peteballan

Slug invasion

go on slug patrole armed with a jar with salt water an a old pair of tongs to pick up any others not in slug trap It is a never ending job, I just leave them for the hedgehogs. I would love to entice a hedgehog into my garden. I haven't seen one by Campbell McKee

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22/01/2012 16:38:26

by Old gardener

Battening down the hatches

without walking across the lawn, but they should be ok anyway. Hydrangea and other cuttings are in the cold frame - I'll throw some fleece over them if the temperatures drop too low. The hedgehogs have at last realised it's winter and are snuggled up by Dovefromabove

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10/12/2012 11:40:30

by jungle balls

slugs and toddlers

everything is allowed to live because everything has a value. Mummy MP and Verdun have given such good advice in my opinion. I look after 4 acres, and have found that nature usually sorts it all out. Hedgehogs and birds make a feast out of snails and slugs by dibladocus

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17/04/2013 01:04:19

by Sam12

Slugs and snails

slugs or snails-if and when the sun beats down they will disappear again. Slimey bs I find the new ferrous phosphate pellets work very well near my most susceptible plants but don't use them in one corner where I know I have a resident hedgehog so by Lorraine Sharp

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03/08/2012 18:25:11

by Leggi

Talkback: Dogs in the garden

!The only problem is that my efforts to puppy-proof our boundary have made it difficult, I suspect, for visitors like hedgehogs who would be very welcome.A suggestion for Alan Pasco - what about one of those 'cages' you can anchor to the lawn to prevent big by Tilly Lover

28/11/2011 18:30:26

by Dave L

Talkback: Squirrel damage to Brussels sprouts

and retrieve your quarry in the evening (if you do it overnight your more likely to catch a hedgehog).We already have one or two of the pests back in the garden - with several large oaks and a couple of hundred yards of largely hazel hedge they're always going by Antonia

28/11/2011 18:30:33

by Simon N

Talkback: Bug hunt at Gardeners' World Live

? You probably could find a pesticide to kill the beetles, but it would also kill the ladybirds, bees, hoverflies and all other beneficial insects in your garden, not to mention the odd hedgehog or two. And then of course the birds and the bats would by budding entomologist

28/11/2011 18:31:53

by Richard Jones - reply to Gnomefan

Talkback: Frogs and slugs

its a great way to keep down the pests having frogs, hedgehogs and birds in the garden - but what tips do you have for encouraging them into the garden in the first place?? What we really need is a good recipe for slugs!!! Any suggestions, Jamie by Lizzie the gardner

28/11/2011 18:37:17

by joseph woosey

Talkback: Lawn trouble

what we'll do the length of the garden this year if we can't walk on the lawn thats left one long upraised path down the garden to my greenhouse would be great, the frogs,birds and hedgehogs would love it my other half was'nt to happy about the idea by Pippa Greenwood

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28/11/2011 18:37:43

by Jackie

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