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slate soil and slugs

I need help with what plants to choose. each year I spend a fortune just for the slugs to eat, or for them to die because soil is bad I need to know what plants I can buy that will survive both problems Maybe you might consider trying to improve by jackie williams

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06/05/2012 11:05:09

by blairs

Mini greehouse slugs

I have a small back garden and a small allotment plot, I use 2 of the plastic mini greenhouses (4 tiers) to start most of my crops off. I have just been out to have a quick look at everything and find slugs have eaten 3/4 of my tomato seedlings. I by wrightnuk

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10/06/2012 08:27:49

by backyardee

Slugs may destroy my life

Hello all my lovely gardening folks. I've tried everything. nematodes pellets beer the lot. last year my garden was destroyed by slugs. My lovingly nurtured dahlias were eaten to the ground in one night. No delphiniums survived. Green brands by Rampant climber

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03/05/2013 22:33:38

by Woodgreen wonderboy

keeping slugs off the hostas

this hosta is slug free by putting vaseline round the tub,slugs love hostas and ruin the look of them xx I think the slugs like the pale leaved/varigated ones, must be more tender. None of my dark leaved ones have been touched. What a beautiful by gail collins

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18/05/2013 17:25:22

by GillyL

Talkback: Hostas and slugs

Hello, my slug problem is pretty huge even though I have all sorts of wildlife. I have started putting roughly crushed eggshells amongst and around my hostas in the hope that the slugs and snails won't like to manoevre through or past them. I save by sheilac

23/04/2013 17:33:21

by sheilac

Talkback: Slugs and snails and pussycat tails

we have got more slugs than year than any year before Make yourself a small pond, the frogs will eat them. Tried nematodes for the first time a couple of years ago and am now a convert! However, still have the problem of snails which need by geoff fearn

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21/05/2012 22:06:16

by blairs

Are these leopard slugs?

I found these under an old planet pot not used for a few years. I want to know if they are leopard slugs or do I need to kill them now? Look like them to me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limax_maximus but I'm not an expert - anybody else by Amy-new-at-this

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13/05/2013 18:12:08

by Welshonion

Slug invasion

Despite a very dry start to the year where I had difficulty getting seeds to germinate, or plants to establish ( we don't have piped water on the allotments, and the captured water ran out very early), the end of the year has seen a massive slug by Campbell McKee

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22/01/2012 16:38:26

by Old gardener

Slug warfare

I can't believe I've just spent the last half hour wearing headtorch and spearing 35 slugs with a wooden skewer. These beasts are really getting to me this year. I think they are living in the soil in the cracks between the flags on the patio by Jigsaw Gill

26/04/2013 21:55:46

by Jigsaw Gill

Talkback: Slugs

I can't help laughing at all the articles I keep reading on slugs and snails and what people do to them, I've not give up and I think some people {nieghbours} may think I'm mad in and out at night and half grapefruit skins between plants all over by Elisabeth Telford

28/11/2011 18:37:13

by sumguywhoneedshelp

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