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Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3102 Location: Herts

It's off to the plot with the cucs and squashes this w/e.

So .........................

I have just been cutting up 2 litre. poly drink bottles with pinking shears ... and I read in Garden Which? that if I also spray them with WD40 that should totally fix the slugs .... YAY !! Razz

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I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad:
I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!

green2 · Prince Charming Joined: 08 Apr 2006 Posts: 860

Or even better use the pinking shears on the slugs, much more fun Wink

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Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3102 Location: Herts

eeeuu

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Gulp ...
I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad:
I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!

redimp · Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 3:59 pm Post subject:

Mine are all sat under bottle cloches and despite the rain this week, they are all bigger. Last year when they weren't under bottles, they had all shrunk to not there anymore within a couple of days.

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frenchchique · Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 3179 Location: Kent

Mine were big, and healthy, and... they've all been munched into a lacy mess, like last year's Sad

Last year was last year, and I put up .. This year i aren't Evil or Very Mad

Either I win, or it's over Confused

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Juliet · Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Posts: 181 Location: Cambridge

Bit worried about the WD40 ... wouldn't it kill lots of other things too? Sad

Maybe even things like hedgehogs & frogs Crying or Very sad

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Flowerlady · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 3102 Location: Herts

A quick trip to the hairdressers then ... slugs HATE hair ... they can't glide across it !!! Twisted Evil

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Gulp ...
I love my vegetable garden. So here is my sad ballad:
I nurtured it for months, And ate it in one salad!

Juliet · Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Posts: 181 Location: Cambridge

Oooh, that's a really useful tip - got lots of that! Very Happy

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SeedQueen · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 408

That really is a great tip. I do lots of cutting with clippers so will have to remember to bag up what I cut off Very Happy

Thanks Flo

loobytoo · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:22 pm Post subject:

Flowerlady wrote:

A quick trip to the hairdressers then ... slugs HATE hair ... they can't glide across it !!! Twisted Evil

I draw the line at lying down on the ground next to my courgette plants - they'll have to take their chances Laughing

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