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Anyone else having a problem with slugs in the garden ??
If you are, How are you controlling them?
Little blighters keep eating my perennials!!
Thanks
I use slug pellets too - I'm over-run with snails (big brutes they are too)
This time last year my peony roses were blooming and were just about over. This year they are nowhere near even showing signs of flowering.
I've planted out some Romanesco brocolli plants today, some courgettes and aubergine plants too. The courgettes and aubergines are under cover (a friend gave me a cold frame which she no longer needs).
The spuds are showing signs of coming on too. The ones I planted a few weeks ago (in those potato planters you get) are nearly at the top of the planters
Do you mean cockchafers, billywitches, Maybugs, June bugs? They're horrible aren't they. I didn't know there was anything you could do about them. Isn't it like trying to stop wasps from coming to your garden? Do you have any oak or sweet chestnut trees close by? Apparently that's what they feed on. We haven't had them so bad this year, probably because of the cold spring. My granddaughter doesn't mind them.
Oh, are the chafer grubs different to the cockchafer grubs? Cockchafer grubs live under the lawn until they turn into cockchafers. I thought it was the same thing.;\
That's what I thought, although I can't say we've ever noticed them in the lawn, but our lawn is more like a field than a bowling green!:^O
Yuk
My main problem this year is snails - hundreds of them and I've no idea where they came from.
Apart from that things are growing! My first lot of spuds are nearly at the top of the planter. Other veggies have really come on a treat in the recent hot weather.
I also have my first roses flowering and the peony roses look like they will start flowering in the next day or two. This time last year they were pretty well over!
Have you tried putting sharp sand or crushed eggshells around them? I wonder if barbed wire laid on the ground would stop them? They're not supposed to like to crawl over anything rough are they. Do they like beer traps like slugs do?
Found this a few pages back, has everybody given up on gardening this year?
We've got our first strawberries ripe but that's all just now.
Look at the number of flowers on this Pyracantha, I wonder why they always have so many?
Things have finally got going with me. My spuds are all doing well. The radishes are coming up a treat and the beans are growing up the canes as you look at them.
now that's a lot of flowers on that pyracantha!! lovely.
I found two chafer grubs in the garden, I put them on the ground feeder and the birds swooped on them and ate them up! We did get treatment to do the lawn, but I haven't seen any this season so I never used it.
CG, 3 of your sweet pea seeds came up!!:^O I took them out of the ground and have put them in little pots to grow them on. thanks.:-)
They'll probably die now! :^O
Mine are covered in buds. I'll take a piccy when a few open.
