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slugs and snails
Im about to begin an experiment using human hair as a deterrent for slugs and snails, i have heard that this works really well as hair has tiny barbs on it and they dont like it, i wonder has anyone tried this??it will hopefully help against by rosie plum
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14/04/2012 07:26:09
by lilwead
Slug Pellets
Is it just me or has anyone else had problems with 'furry' slug pellets? I know they usually 'breakdown' after a while, but they have swollen up and gone all furry !  I don't know whether it is because they are old or whether they were just a cheap by Moemye
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18/06/2012 00:03:52
by paulkearney
Slugs and snails
I am so impressed with this concoction that I feel I have a duty to broadcast it to everyone. I have been plagued for years with slugs and snails eating my plants, as soon as they poke their heads out of the soil, they are attacked.  I have tried by Chrissie05
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14/04/2012 15:37:10
by Indianagarner
slugs and snails
Hi can anybody tell how to stop slugs and snails eating my clematis every year it is the same.I've tried pellets around the bottom, copper tape around the pot and keeping foliage from other plants away so that the slugs and snails can't reach across by carolyn gray
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26/06/2012 23:30:00
by BobTheGardener
chickens and slug pellets
Hi has anyone got any info on the effects of slug pellets and chickens. At present i dont use any, but my crops are being eaten alive.  Am i safe to use 'green' ones in my garden as my chicken do have limited access to the beds when i have no crops by chicken!
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10/06/2012 10:01:29
by chicken!
Advice on slug free plants
Hi everyone, I wonder if anyone would know whether Rudbeckia plants are prone to slug damage or any other damage as far as that goes.  I am really fed up with fighting off slugs and snails and want to grow some tall, hardy flowers like rudbeckia by sterelitza
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15/04/2013 17:15:55
by sterelitza
Slugs v Campanula
We planted some new campanula plants recently on the top of our wall. Within 24hours they looked to have been eaten. At first I accused my husband of being 'secateur-happy' but this he denied. What I want to know is - do slugs eat campanula?  Yes by Jane12
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11/05/2013 21:31:14
by blairs
At wits end with carrots and slugs
Hello all Last year I sowed 10 rows of carrots, one after the other as each time the seedlings raised their heads they were eaten by, I assume, slugs. I treated the soil with nematodes but to no avail.   I cannot use slugs pellets etc as I have a by Auntiemand
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03/05/2012 01:51:52
by Welshonion
slug pellets help
just a quick question for any 1,just bought some slug pellets and it dosnt say anything about if it harms the birds if they eat them after they have died,i emailed the company that produces them and they say that birds will not eat dead or dieing by matmats123
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06/02/2013 00:02:36
by Welshonion
Talkback: Slug sex
Wild life mating can be very fascinating. i have two collar doves which kiss beaks for ages before mating on next door's roof! The time od day does not seem to bother them but we will all have to get up very early to watch the slugs it seems by Richard Jones
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28/11/2011 18:41:20
by hereisabee