Slugs - can I prepare for battle during the winter?

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  1. *dim*

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    one of my clients has a few hostas and uses the coffee grounds as she has birdfeeders/baths in her small garden, and refuses to use pellets....

    I'm not sure how effective it is, as I still often sell slugs eating her hostas ...

    I also read conflicting reports about using coffee grounds .... some have said that it 'may' alter the ph of the soil if used often?
     
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    I have had some success with the shells of beechmast mulched thickly around beans. The shells are quite spikey, rough and uneven so the slimey critters don't like to cross them. After the season is over I just hoe them in and they rot down.

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    I use Coffee Grounds at the base of the Roses as a feed. Saw it on Gardeners World some time ago.
     
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    Theres a demand for them?
     
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      In the"Dim" world, anything goes :loll:
       
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        LOL ... had me baffled for a while .... meant to say see (not sell)! .... too much 'Grants' whisky and too many beers!

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          We know, were only joshing you:D:thumbsup:

          Happy New Year Dim:dbgrtmb:
           
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          Love the avatar mate. One of the best, if not the best :thumbsup:
           
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          The only pellets I know that work are those that you load into a Shotgun:D:heehee:
           
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            Thats just put a pic in my head of you charging round the garden at night with a leather flying cap, goggles and scarf, blasting away at the cabbages singing "Men of Harlech" for some reason:D:help:
             
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              But that's me, Ziggy, that's me:D:heehee::heehee::loll:
               
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                gcc3663 Knackered Grandad trying to keep up with a 4yr old

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                It's that Year of the Dragon effect again.
                Well have to watch the Taffs. next year.
                 
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                Are you talking about Dai now, Gcc:scratch::D:heehee::love30::love30:
                 
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                No he's on about the Welsh year of the Dragon:D
                 
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                I wasn't, but he'll probably take offence now. Cheers for that A.:heehee:
                 
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