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Offline curly66

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snails in my vegie garden!!
« 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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Re: snails in my vegie garden!!
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2012, 11:19:07 pm »
Epsom salts might be worth a try.
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Re: snails in my vegie garden!!
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2012, 11:22:11 pm »
Slug pellets.

Even organic farmers use them.

Use sparingly and targeted.
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Re: snails in my vegie garden!!
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2012, 11:23:05 pm »
I use slug pelets, have too
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Re: snails in my vegie garden!!
« Reply #4 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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Re: snails in my vegie garden!!
« Reply #5 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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Re: snails in my vegie garden!!
« Reply #6 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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Re: snails in my vegie garden!!
« Reply #7 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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Re: snails in my vegie garden!!
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2012, 01:30:26 am »
Could it be something else eating the spinach like moths?
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Re: snails in my vegie garden!!
« Reply #9 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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Re: snails in my vegie garden!!
« Reply #10 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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Re: snails in my vegie garden!!
« Reply #11 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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Re: snails in my vegie garden!!
« Reply #12 on: October 28, 2012, 06:55:59 am »
scary, you need chickens, free range to eat the bugs for you
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Re: snails in my vegie garden!!
« Reply #13 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.

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Re: snails in my vegie garden!!
« Reply #14 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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