Long live slug pellets - thats all i will say

Since i have taken alot of trouble doing my allotment i did consider doing it all organic - however then my serious head came on the scene so i just had to put them pellets down - well after just one night - i picked up 60 slugs/snails , now if i had not used pellets chances are all my hard work would have been for nothing , my runner beans are most gratefull for my insight :lollol:

Anyway just thought i would share this with you guys. Its great to see the new plants taking off and knowing shortly i will have so many runner beans i will have to start giving them away.

cheers :D

 

I just use salt now on my garden each night, just watch them bubble up.

 

I salt them aswell.

 

does salt not harm the plants?

 

I think it does Dee, it is used to prevent things growing-I have used it on dandelions that pop up through the pavement and it works on them.

 

It can do - I've just posted elsewhere that I almost killed an emerging Helenium with too much salt.

Catch the blighters with tweezers (I can't pick them up in bare hands) and drop them into a bucket of salty, salty water.

 

that all very well but unless your prepared to stay out with a torch....

 

It's still better than killing off the wildlife and pets with slug pellets... just read the labels.... it's really nasty stuff!

 

My mother used to use crushed up egg shells round the plants. She washed them and saved them all year round for the spring. As a matter of interest i thought they were supposed blue so therefore birds animals etc don't eat them? I take it from your comments that this is not the case. I use them sometimes around a new clematis or the odd pot plant if the slugs are having a go. Not much though since my grandchildren came on the scene.

 

I have a tub which I don't use-just in case the thought of murder crosses my mind-they busied themselves clearing whole crop of geraniums this year-I nearly wavered on my organic principle-they probably are all stuck together with time by now anyway. Sometimes the temptation is almost too much.

 

I dont like using pellets, beer traps work equally well as does sharp grit, I do use pellets ocasionally but only for a week or so after Ive planted out bedding plants.

Remember that although the pellets might bring out sixty slugs not all would have been eating your plants, they feed on other stuff aswell.

 

egg shells dont work, neither does sharp grit. There are only a handful of deaths of animals each year caused by slug pellets, if you want to do something for wildlife, its the cat that has to go

 

I'm thinking the cat aswell, after it crapped on my veg patch AGAIN!!!!!! I'm thinking of putting a cage around my entire garden!

 

well i use those organic slug pellets , but if you have a limited size plot, and all your hard work goes to nothing - sorry pellets win every time. As for animal deaths - well eather keep out of my garden and using it as a toilet, or take your chances - anyway pellets are coloured blue to deter animals from eating the pellets - and i even think birds are not as silly as people think eather . I pick up the snails / slugs when i see them so little chance of birds eating those , also my dog is walking around all day , she has never eaten pellets...

End of the day its a case of what works - and pellets work for me I tried doing it all organic , but there comes a time when good intentions have to leave via common sense.

cheers

 

Just a suggestion but you can buy slug pellets that are child and animal friendly.

I use these and have no problems with my two dogs. I also use a liquid solution you mix up with water and this then penetrates the soil below killing the ones you cant see. Again ok to use around animals as it just the same as watering. As soon as the water has gone there is no danger (I just lock the dogs up while applying this and give it ten mins before letting them out).