Why are slug pellets bad?

lol Claire. Want to loan my glasses ? I bet you dream about slugs. Have you ever woken Mr Lollipop by digging him in the ribs with a cane?

 

"I had found one (blinking slug paranoia), after I prodded it with a cane a few times I realised it was a blinking pebble"

It is indeed not funny. I have two such pebbles embedded in the asphalt of my front drive and I try to squish them every time.

 

Anyone know if its true that birds dont like blue and thats why the pellets are that clour ?

 

No:confused:

 

Well i once filled some blue rubble sacks for a customer and left em under his bird table an he told me the birds stayed away .... im going to go find out

 

I think lots of non eatable things are of a blue colour because very few food things in nature are blue. I am sure there is some sound thinking behind this because also in medicine and food processing many things are made blue on purpose. Don´t eat smurfs.

 

Nut-Ivory,

You just crack me up:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

 

Looked it up and aparently birds dont like blue much

 

Insects see yellow as blue.

 

how do you know:confused: :D

 

Maybe its nowt to do with birds and that slugs like blue

 

Ah! Its becoming clearer now, all my slugs like the colour green!

 

Thanks mate, you made my day, type of answer I expected.

Cheers!!!!!!!!!!

 

I was once reincarnated as a bee...

 

Slugs and snails are no problem on my allotment, but rabbits are.

I have just planted out Aut caulis, savoys, winter cabbage, kohl rabi, broccoli and some greyhound cabbages, only to have them eated, by a rabbit, I think.

They have taken 6 weeks from sowing to planting out.

I am surrounded by a 4 foot chicken wire fence, with no apparant holes dug under it, with a padlocked close boarded gate, so no one had left it open.
All of the plants were completely covered by industrial netting, raised 2 foot above the plants, and pegged down all round the edges.
And a blighter got at them, not once but twice!
I have checked and it is not hiding anywhere inside, and no fur left where it may have jumped over the fence!

One of the older plot holders suggested it was rats,so I put down rat poison inside the netting (well covered) but not a single bit was touched, so back to square one!

Oh! the joys of gardening!