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Didn't you get any complaints about the taste?
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Wandering Willy wrote:Didn't you get any complaints about the taste?
it's not the sack they are generally interested in - but the huge tuber...
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The slugs that eat holes in your tubers are a completely different type of slug to the slugs that crawl around topside. The tuber chewers are keeled slugs. Keeled slugs prefer loamy type soil so you can always add a bit a sharp sand around your seed pots to discourage them or alternatively plant anything other than Maris Piper - they're dead keen on Maris varieties but not so keen on King Teds etc (apparently).
[But I now know why they're slimy - if the little bleeders been sucking on Bish's huge tuber they need to wash themselves afterwards]
[But I now know why they're slimy - if the little bleeders been sucking on Bish's huge tuber they need to wash themselves afterwards]
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Get some chickens - then problem solved - they'll eat all the slugs (and your lettuces... )
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Yeh but... if you get chickens then you lose not only the slugs but all the grass too. Plus they peck the slowworms. Plus the extra grain you have to put out to keep the greedy partially evolved dinos from starving attracts rats from all parts of the Kingdom. Chickens plus gardening equals caveats.Gooner Girl wrote:Get some chickens - then problem solved - they'll eat all the slugs (and your lettuces... )
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Good job i'm not garden proud then, my chickens and ducks live in 2/3rd of our back garden. I grow my pots and veg in the other third. Last year i had lettuce, potatos, TONS of raspberries, apples, cherries, rhubarb and a few other bits and bobs - flowers i always kill though!The Axman wrote:Yeh but... if you get chickens then you lose not only the slugs but all the grass too. Plus they peck the slowworms. Plus the extra grain you have to put out to keep the greedy partially evolved dinos from starving attracts rats from all parts of the Kingdom. Chickens plus gardening equals caveats.Gooner Girl wrote:Get some chickens - then problem solved - they'll eat all the slugs (and your lettuces... )
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I hate to point this out GG but you appear to be Farming rather than Gardening.
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Farming is WAY better then gardening! Still trying to persuade Mr GG to let me have a cow though. He's such a spoilsport.The Axman wrote:I hate to point this out GG but you appear to be Farming rather than Gardening.
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Hmmm. Whereas I think the ultimate goal of my gardening is to create a bit of the Costa Rican Rainforest (but accessible). So I'm not aiming for cows, but parrots and leopards. Meanwhile I'm cultivating my thriving population of slowworms: saw one yesterday, sunning itself, that was a good 15cm in circumference.
Also thought of getting a couple of Alpacas to clear out the brambles, but apparently goats are better (but so much more mundane). Hey-ho.
Also thought of getting a couple of Alpacas to clear out the brambles, but apparently goats are better (but so much more mundane). Hey-ho.
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Oh i'd like a few goats too (but thats not allowed either apparently. Humph.)
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I'll lend you mine when they've cleared the brambles. (Actually I've borrowed them from a farm myself). (And they keep on escaping. Found one in the bathroom yesterday eating the soap).
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One of my friends is dyslexic.
He once went to a Toga party dressed as a goat
In other news - Our Kid's chicks should've hatched yesterday. They haven't
He once went to a Toga party dressed as a goat
In other news - Our Kid's chicks should've hatched yesterday. They haven't
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There isn't a groaaaaan smilie, so this'll have to do:Bruce Rioja wrote:One of my friends is dyslexic.
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my chickens never ate the slugs in my garden....Gooner Girl wrote:Get some chickens - then problem solved - they'll eat all the slugs (and your lettuces... )
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That'll be because they taste of WD-40thebish wrote:my chickens never ate the slugs in my garden....Gooner Girl wrote:Get some chickens - then problem solved - they'll eat all the slugs (and your lettuces... )
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Don't let them. You don't want a chicken choking in your garden.thebish wrote:my chickens never ate the slugs in my garden....Gooner Girl wrote:Get some chickens - then problem solved - they'll eat all the slugs (and your lettuces... )
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ahhh - good point!!Bruce Rioja wrote:That'll be because they taste of WD-40thebish wrote:my chickens never ate the slugs in my garden....Gooner Girl wrote:Get some chickens - then problem solved - they'll eat all the slugs (and your lettuces... )
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Our Kid's chooks still haven't hatched. It's not looking good
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Slugs and snails and puppy dog tails. Leave it to the ladies, chaps.
My wife tells me that a sawdust barrier is reasonably effective when protecting plants as the slugs and snails are not enamoured of 'sliding' over the texture thus presented. It is certainly not 100% efficient as a deterrent but it is much better than nothing. The negative side of the exercise is that the sawdust needs to be replaced often and some wood dust is not recommended as it damages the soil. Don't ask me which timber to avoid as I don't know.
Bruce, you didn't have the children boil the googs before placing them in the incubator did you?
My wife tells me that a sawdust barrier is reasonably effective when protecting plants as the slugs and snails are not enamoured of 'sliding' over the texture thus presented. It is certainly not 100% efficient as a deterrent but it is much better than nothing. The negative side of the exercise is that the sawdust needs to be replaced often and some wood dust is not recommended as it damages the soil. Don't ask me which timber to avoid as I don't know.
Bruce, you didn't have the children boil the googs before placing them in the incubator did you?
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In my front garden the holly bush is laden with berries and the heather has flowered. It's early March. Is this right?
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