Comments on: Salad Garden Dreams and Slug Solutions http://domestikgoddess.com/salad-garden-dreams-and-slug-solutions/ thrifty and creative | home and garden | ideas and experience Sat, 12 May 2012 21:10:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: domestika http://domestikgoddess.com/salad-garden-dreams-and-slug-solutions/#comment-1147 domestika Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:07:00 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/salad-garden-dreams-and-slug-solutions/#comment-1147 @Lawrence, sacrificial plants sounds so cold-hearted, but it's an idea with merit - I'll have to give it a try. @natasha, yes, the beer trap is my first choice - but only when there's dregs around, not wasting a full new bottle on the slugs! @Jean, hm, ol' Peter Rabbit set a bad example there for untold generations of garden-raiding bunnies. Maybe borrow Lawrence's idea of sacrificial plants (outside the fence)? Or, hey, it might be worth trying some of the tips for repelling deer in <a href="http://domestikgoddess.com/gardeners-homemade-deer-repellent/" title="The Desperate Gardener and the Homemade Deer Repellent" rel="nofollow">The Desperate Gardener and the Homemade Deer Repellent</a> -- and if any of that works, want to send me a few of your slug-eating frogs? I've only got toads - do toads eat slugs? If so, mine seem to be lazy... @Lawrence, sacrificial plants sounds so cold-hearted, but it’s an idea with merit – I’ll have to give it a try.

@natasha, yes, the beer trap is my first choice – but only when there’s dregs around, not wasting a full new bottle on the slugs!

@Jean, hm, ol’ Peter Rabbit set a bad example there for untold generations of garden-raiding bunnies. Maybe borrow Lawrence’s idea of sacrificial plants (outside the fence)? Or, hey, it might be worth trying some of the tips for repelling deer in The Desperate Gardener and the Homemade Deer Repellent — and if any of that works, want to send me a few of your slug-eating frogs? I’ve only got toads – do toads eat slugs? If so, mine seem to be lazy…

]]> By: Jean http://domestikgoddess.com/salad-garden-dreams-and-slug-solutions/#comment-1146 Jean Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:28:50 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/salad-garden-dreams-and-slug-solutions/#comment-1146 My problem isn't slugs as we have so many frogs. No, rabbits are my problem and I really don't know what to do! Fence is pretty good but the little wretches eat through the wire! My problem isn’t slugs as we have so many frogs. No, rabbits are my problem and I really don’t know what to do! Fence is pretty good but the little wretches eat through the wire!

]]> By: natasha http://domestikgoddess.com/salad-garden-dreams-and-slug-solutions/#comment-1145 natasha Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:10:05 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/salad-garden-dreams-and-slug-solutions/#comment-1145 i hear that a little bottle of beer will do em in. they go in, get drunk, drown. happy. i hear that a little bottle of beer will do em in. they go in, get drunk, drown. happy.

]]> By: Lawrence http://domestikgoddess.com/salad-garden-dreams-and-slug-solutions/#comment-1144 Lawrence Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:59:50 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/salad-garden-dreams-and-slug-solutions/#comment-1144 Sacrificial plants are a good idea too, just plant more than you need so the slugs get a feed away from your stock, and leave an open space between those and yours were the sun can dry them up. I made the mistake of putting down old planks as walk-ways between beds and this gave them a shady path ( under the planks ) to move around the garden even in the height of summer. Sacrificial plants are a good idea too, just plant more than you need so the slugs get a feed away from your stock, and leave an open space between those and yours were the sun can dry them up. I made the mistake of putting down old planks as walk-ways between beds and this gave them a shady path ( under the planks ) to move around the garden even in the height of summer.

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