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Title: snails in my vegie garden!!
Post by: curly66 on October 27, 2012, 11:17:19 pm: I've got beer pots, finally used snail bait, bran scattered around and I'm STILL finding holes in my spinach and live snails, they've destroyed my basil and I'm at a complete loss what to do next...
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Post by: consumerate on October 27, 2012, 11:19:07 pm: Epsom salts might be worth a try.
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Post by: droverjess on October 27, 2012, 11:22:11 pm: Slug pellets.

Even organic farmers use them.

Use sparingly and targeted.
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Post by: Halex on October 27, 2012, 11:23:05 pm: I use slug pelets, have too
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Post by: Amy :-) on October 27, 2012, 11:24:35 pm: Yep, I use the little green pellets too. I just have to watch that my dogs don't eat them.
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Post by: droverjess on October 27, 2012, 11:25:26 pm: Here is info

http://www.which.co.uk/news/2011/03/slug-pellets-247120/

The ferric phosphate ones are organic
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Post by: kt2 on October 27, 2012, 11:29:00 pm: I think I've heard that egg shells scattered around on the ground as they can't crawl over them. Good luck. :)
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Post by: Cuilidh on October 28, 2012, 01:20:59 am: You could try ashes from a fire (or BBQ if you don't have a fire place) I don't think they like that very much - I seem to recall someone saying talcum powder as well as it dries them out - also coffee grounds from your local cafe are reputed to be very good (and they are also good for the garden).
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Post by: CreamPuff63 on October 28, 2012, 01:30:26 am: Could it be something else eating the spinach like moths?
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Post by: curly66 on October 28, 2012, 02:12:10 am: oh absolutely could be something else, I only said snail because I was fortunate enough to spring one crawling up the side of the pot!! I've been out in the early hours of the morning, just light, and found some slug activity so that was the main prompting for the snail bait..
I have the ashy parts of the weber to clean out, I might try that now it's been suggested...
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Post by: meganjane on October 28, 2012, 02:32:30 am: Ugh, hate them. We have more slugs than snails.

I'm having trouble with aphids. Because we have canola all around us, the aphids have come. They've totally destroyed my broccolini before it even had a chance to emerge from it's leaves.
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Post by: cookie1 on October 28, 2012, 06:00:07 am: It could be red spider too. They destroyed all our basil in one night. Horrid things.
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Post by: obbie on October 28, 2012, 06:55:59 am: scary, you need chickens, free range to eat the bugs for you
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Post by: gertbysea on October 28, 2012, 08:32:04 am: When I had a garden and Labrador I used beer in a saucer which killed the snails.

Gert
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Post by: Jude59 on October 28, 2012, 08:36:10 am: It is so frustrating. We use coffee grounds and snail pellets. Keep at it as they do tend to go away if you keep up the offensive!
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Post by: droverjess on October 28, 2012, 09:09:44 am: MJ try garlic oil for aphids

http://organicgardening.about.com/od/pestcontrol/a/spraysforaphids.htm
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Post by: droverjess on October 30, 2012, 05:58:11 am: Now have slugs in my kitchen, they come out at night eeek, messy.
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Post by: astarra on October 30, 2012, 06:02:50 am: Gross. Sawdust or eggshells where they get in will stop them - or salt (dries them up ;D )
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Post by: gertbysea on October 30, 2012, 06:06:12 am: I had snails for lunch.

(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/10/30/yzehezy7.jpg)

(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/10/30/6e4y3u8y.jpg)

And some wine to wash them down.

(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/12/10/30/ybyve6a6.jpg)

Gert
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Post by: astarra on October 30, 2012, 06:07:27 am: :P :P :P
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Post by: obbie on October 30, 2012, 06:08:05 am: Gert, you are so funny....
I had pizza
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Post by: droverjess on October 30, 2012, 06:10:16 am: Gert it's five past 6 in the morning, I haven't had breakfast yet!
Now I don't want any.
You are a scream.

Astarra don't know where coming in.
Dead one fell out of dishwasher last week too.
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Post by: curly66 on October 30, 2012, 06:35:21 am: That is the ultimate revenge Gertbysea..........LOL
I will certainly try everyone's suggestions though, my garden beds will end up like a compost site full of egg shells, coffee grounds, bran and beer!!
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Post by: gertbysea on October 30, 2012, 06:42:41 am: Hey we're delicious. I could not believe my eyes when I saw them on the special board.

The last time I has snails was an eon ago at a cocktail party in Singapore. Some guy and I ate 50 each with a lot of wine. Best party ever.

Gert
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Post by: obbie on October 30, 2012, 06:45:07 am: ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: meganjane on October 30, 2012, 01:06:41 pm: ;D ;D

Love it Gert!

Thanks for the tip re garlic oil, I'll give it a go next time they appear. They've all gone now, it was a whirlwind pit stop for about three days where they came, they sucked and they left!

Now, we have an influx of earwigs. I have found two in our bed in the last two days!
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Post by: Frozzie on October 30, 2012, 07:32:16 pm: Hate bugs.....!!! and lol to gert...
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Post by: Cuilidh on October 30, 2012, 07:39:58 pm: HATE HATE HATE (yes I do mean to yell) earwigs - how do you get rid of them?
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Post by: gertbysea on October 30, 2012, 08:24:55 pm: I really do not like earwigs. I really really do not like earwigs.

Gert
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Post by: Halex on October 30, 2012, 09:37:08 pm: We have cabbage white butterflies who eat everything.
Any ideas?

H :)
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Post by: obbie on October 30, 2012, 09:47:28 pm: No, someone will help Hally
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Post by: curly66 on October 31, 2012, 07:08:18 am: my mum bought this thingymajig from the $2 shop and it's a solar powered butterfly that spins around and around... it's a novelty BUT also the theory is, it attracts the flying things in your garden and when they go towards it and it does nothing for them, they fly away somewhere else!!
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Post by: CreamPuff63 on October 31, 2012, 08:07:40 am: well it sounds like a novel idea in theory - does it actually work?
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Post by: consumerate on October 31, 2012, 08:08:38 am: Quote from: Halex on October 30, 2012, 09:37:08 pm
We have cabbage white butterflies who eat everything.
Any ideas?

H :)

Tennis racquet?
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Post by: Frozzie on October 31, 2012, 08:30:32 am: One of those electric ones lol
Lmao at that image.. Perhaps a glass too much wine !
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Post by: curly66 on October 31, 2012, 08:36:05 am: well I have it in the vegie garden that has the lettuce, tomatoes, basil and ummm, trying to think of what I planted in there yesterday... and differently to last year in that particular patch, I don't have any flying anything's hanging around so maybe it does work... and for a couple of bucks it's probably worth a shot.. I had that many flying insects and butterfly's around my vegies last year it became ridiculous, I tried EVERYTHING and nothing worked... heard Jamie Oliver's (I LOVE HIM) gardener saying he gets the 'hoover' out, shakes the plants and then hoovers the fliers...lol
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Post by: Frozzie on October 31, 2012, 08:57:50 am: Lol we'll if crazy works why not!
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Post by: obbie on October 31, 2012, 09:49:41 am: I have seen those solar powered butterfly's, but the tennis racquet might work better