Rutland magpies are woosies. They never come within 50’ of the house.
Exactly my ranking as well. Tomorrow morning might give us the first indications.
I fully agree but this is very much a scaled-down fun experiment. I have seen Vaseline, grit and coffee grounds recommended so many times as...
I’ve thought of that @flounder The pots are right outside the kitchen window and our pigeons are not that brazen. However mice and rats are: if...
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[ATTACH]Two slices of cucumber on top of five near identical pots. One has coarse pebbles, one has coffee grounds, one has Vaseline smeared...
I expect slug numbers are strongly influence by the weather in any particular week. I think we have all witnessed a scourge of slugs and snails,...
I shall Caroline. When the weather warms up and the dahlias are planted I’ll see if the slugs’ heads are turned by marmite.
Hi Caroline, as mentioned in post #24 the bed was empty apart from a few self sown foxgloves and a dusting of verbena bonariensis. It will be...
I’d be interested to hear your findings @flounder . Maybe you could use Guinness instead of Peroni and I read on another forum today that fruit...
@flounder Week 1 65 Week 2 34 Week 3 8 Week 4 19Front right 28 Front left 29 Back right 31 Back left 38Sorry, I don’t know the slugs’ names....
Certainly John, we have loads and loads of snails. It’s odd.
The bed is largely cleared waiting for the dahlias to be planted. However there are a few verbena bonariensis and also foxgloves neither of which,...
@ViewAhead, don’t feel too bad about getting the results wrong. A good friend of mine in the village is a GQT panellist and he was equally off beam.
THE RESULTS ARE IN[ATTACH]But first an explanation of the experiment for those who are new to the thread. Four weeks ago I put four jam...
A little bit of patience needed! We are having a new carpet fitted in the sitting room next week so I posted a village WhatsApp message asking if...
I’m another who thought the impact of barley straw was feeble.For about four years, with great effect, I used Nishikoi Clear Waters. It is a...
It was a very poor - or should that be good? - harvest at the end of week three. There were just 8 slugs and one tiny caterpillar.The results...
The objective test I saw showed that baskets without crystals were wilting after seven days but the identical basket with crystals was perkier for...
It works for some but objective testing of it against other repellents gives it quite a low ranking.
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