Snail/Slug damage

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  1. Michael Hewett

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    Those things are even attacking my cacti !

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      Hopefully he swallowed some spines and is being stabbed internally.
       
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        I bet you say that to all the boys :heehee:
         
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          Slugs and snails have given my onion leaves a good chomping this year ! Never had a problem before and naively thought that onion leaves were not on their menu .
          Now I normally lift my onions in early September . I presume the chomped leave ones will be OK just a bit smaller :scratch:
           
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          I have often seen the leaves eaten away but never the bulb. The damaged ones are all right but smaller as you say.
           
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            Used to hear them chomping the onion leaves when I lived in Wales, they decimated them there because of the high rainfall.

            Snails have had a pop at my succulent in the greenhouse :th scifD36:
             
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              Interesting questions -
              1 - Apart from being part of the food chain , do slugs/snails serve any useful purpose ?
              2 - Why the heck do they not eat Dandelions or Mares-tail ! ?
               
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                pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                Well Harry you have to ask your self this, do we serve any useful purpose on the planet, and why don't we eat Dandelions and Mares tails?:biggrin:
                 
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                  You speak for yourself, I drink dandelion coffee and make brass polish out of marestails :biggrin:
                   
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                    Try blanching dandelion leaves to make them edible and not bitter. The snails will have the lot away before you do.
                     
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                      pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                      Coffee comes from the coffee plant, you are just drinking dandelion.;):biggrin:
                       
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