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First time grower and in need of advice!
, is that the right thing to do? We have a space around 3m x 1m to put the bed in.We suffer terribly with slugs and snails. We have two dogs and don't want them poisoned. Any tips? Trough's are very useful for growing most things on Paving (that's what we did anyway by emraa
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25/02/2013 21:22:26
by Joolz13
Bee news from The Beeb, Eu Ban pesticide
infestations - but do have lots of blue its ( aphids) and ladybirds, ditto, aphids, blackbirds and starlings - slugs and snails and so on and so on.  The only exception is the darned lily beetle which nothing hrere recognises as prey - but I can often be found by blackest
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30/04/2013 17:54:06
by figrat
Beekeeping
really busy and obviously have a grand time of it ,so this has to be another one to remember for the future for our garden,also i noticed the tadpoles were doing a piranha on a garden snail that must have fallen into the pond, i always thought they only by Beekeeper Gardener
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15/05/2013 16:47:05
by Alan4711
Talkback: Draining ponds
Kate hi kate sorry cant send picture,,,,however they are about 1in long with what seems as bits of broken leaves attach to them which sort of looks like a shell as such and no they are not snails.....and white/cream colour sort of like a maggot by Dragonfly
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28/11/2011 18:40:34
by Angel
Talkback: Vine weevils again
it has happened to me in 50 years of gardening. WAR has been declared on the beasties!(just not sure what ammo/tactics to use) Thanks Christine. I think my frogs are keeping the evil weevils in check. I daren't touch the slugs and snails either - even by Chalkweed
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28/11/2011 18:41:23
by ANNEWHITE
Talkback: Garden birds and my Big Garden Birdwatch
that i am saving our population. Have a bird that looks like a thrush, its sits on TV aerial and roof and sings beautifully. Plus eats snails find a great deal of empty snail shells about. It is singing beautifully now. I also have a family of blackbirds by Kate Bradbury
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28/11/2011 18:43:02
by ANN
Thugs
of Geranium C. Druce ( no police amongst us i hope, I plead insanity) and it,s still rampaging through borders, paths,neighbours. Crime really doesn,t pay. Oh, and unusually it,s raining here in Cambridgeshire. Snails night out again xx I'll be out by pamajo
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22/07/2012 21:11:27
by christopher2
Sizzling Summer Plant Deal
hope it works with your alliums, there's nothing worse than putting in some of your favourite plants and finding them decimated by slugs! I have not seen many slug just lots of snails. But when my new plants come do i put grit sant in the hole by pash2
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16/06/2012 12:57:40
by Mummy Muddy Paws
Welcome to the fruit & veg forum
have been growing crops organically in my garden for 47 years and do not get the pest troubles other gardenrs have who spray chemoicals about because the garden is in equilibrium.  Frogs, hegdehogs and birds keep down the slugs and snails; ladybirds eat by Daniel Haynes
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01/08/2012 11:53:48
by barrie_hem
new years resolution
and eat everything in sight,yes I am going to be a reformed gardener with tools at the ready clean and tidy and not stopping for too  many cuppas and chocie biscuits,watch out Monty! Are you going to be kind to slugs and snails? Gosh, flowering rose, do by flowering rose
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06/01/2013 13:22:22
by Verdun