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The slugs win according to the RHS...

Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,135
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Just spotted this -
The results of the RHS slug trials

Billericay - Essex

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,226
    Saw that too @Pete8 not one worked.🙄
  • Hampshire_HogHampshire_Hog Posts: 1,089
    Interesting reading the bit I liked best was the new word “slugocide” I will be using this in future.

    "You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,840
    The RHS used salad plants for their trial.  I use salads - soft, succulent lettuces - as sacrificial plants to keep slugs away from treasures.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,008
    Do you find that works, Obs? I seem to have slugs who just treat it as a side salad to the main dish
    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,840
    Yes - in the sense that I could easily find and remove them before they got to the main course.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    I have been conducting my own experiment since late February this year because I have a particularly bad problem with slugs. At present, I am cautiously hopeful that it is working. About five evenings a week I go out for one hour and collect all the slugs I can find and dispose of them. From April U was collecting between 200 and 600 each night. The drought helped of course. Now I am only finding about 40. I hope that by reducing the breeding population it may be possible to grow a number of plants more successfully next year. We shall see.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,000
    I came across slug or snail eggs the other day. When you see how many there are in a clutch,it's not surprising how many mature ones there are about. :(

    I find a lot of slugs lurking under plants that they don't eat. I never used to think of looking there but I suppose it makes sense -there's more shelter under a plant that you haven't defoliated.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • stewyfizzstewyfizz Posts: 161
    Well using copper tape on ground-sown plants would obviously be useless as they can tunnel underneath. Dont need the RHS to tell me that. 😕
    Gardening. The cause of, and solution to, all of my problems.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I use copper tape on really cheap lawn edging to enclose vulnerable veg, it has always seemed to work as beans, peas, cornichon etc all un-nibbled. Now I'm wondering if it's worth just using the edging as a barrier without the copper tape? Definitely going to try that next year, always have too many plants for the space so might just sacrifice a few.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 29,840
    When I pick rhubarb I cut the leaves off there and then and leave them on the ground.  In my Belgian garden this worked a treat as slugs would shelter there.  Haven't had any mature enough to pick here yet.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
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