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Zaf

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Woudn't it be nice......
« on: June 17, 2012, 11:01:16 AM »
If slugs would eat bindweed  ;D
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Re: Woudn't it be nice......
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2012, 01:43:35 PM »
Oh yes indeed  ;D ;D

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Re: Woudn't it be nice......
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2012, 08:46:56 AM »
That would be amazing....

I heard a discussion about slugs on the radio last week. Apparently porridge oats are good for getting rid of them. The slugs eat them up and die, but them when the birds, hedgehogs or frogs eat the dead slugs they are not harmed because its only oats. They didn't say why the oats killed the slugs... maybe it dries them out?
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Re: Woudn't it be nice......
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2012, 08:50:59 AM »
Thats interesting,  once it dries out I'll pus some down and see what happens :)


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Re: Woudn't it be nice......
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2012, 07:25:21 PM »
I think it's because they absorb fluid and expand (I don't think I'll elaborate  ;D ). I may give that a go myself  :)

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Re: Woudn't it be nice......
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2012, 07:29:19 PM »
Oh dear, that conjures up a vision of exploding slugs  :o
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Re: Woudn't it be nice......
« Reply #6 on: June 18, 2012, 07:55:48 PM »
oh yuck!....Have you ever stood on a poor wee snail?  OMG I do that all the time (by mistake, of course!) there are loads in our back yard.....makes me wanna puke!

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Re: Woudn't it be nice......
« Reply #7 on: June 18, 2012, 08:13:19 PM »
Its horrid, I try very hard not to :(

I'm trying some yukka slug repellent but every time it rains I have to renew it so thats an awful lot this year :(

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Re: Woudn't it be nice......
« Reply #8 on: June 18, 2012, 08:16:07 PM »
Exploding slugs yuk ;).                   S x x x x
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Re: Woudn't it be nice......
« Reply #9 on: June 18, 2012, 08:25:10 PM »
My Gran used to put salt down, it makes them dehydrate  :-\

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Re: Woudn't it be nice......
« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2012, 08:29:33 PM »
I think I remember my gran doing it too now you mention it

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Re: Woudn't it be nice......
« Reply #11 on: June 19, 2012, 12:42:51 AM »
Apparently salt isn't good for the animals that then eat the dead slugs :(

I didn't realise that hedgehogs were mini slug eating machines! Upto 100 a night apparently.....
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Re: Woudn't it be nice......
« Reply #12 on: June 19, 2012, 09:10:36 AM »
Love hedgehogs, we get them in the garden.  Amber had me up at 2am the other morning barking at one through the cat flap  ;).

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Re: Woudn't it be nice......
« Reply #13 on: June 19, 2012, 10:15:22 AM »
For some reason we dont get many here :(
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Re: Woudn't it be nice......
« Reply #14 on: June 19, 2012, 10:25:35 AM »
We get a few... but they are usually in the front garden and not where all the slugs are out the back! We do have a family of frogs though, so they help :)
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