Help please! - Slug pellet made it in to pond

[toadpole]

As other people have allready mentioned things that slugs and snails like ...i thought i would just add my one to the list ....i was feeding chaffinches and sparrows a mixture of bird seen and leftover niger seed from last yr (as siskins never came this yr ) on the path in my front garden ....and noticed how all the slugs and snails now *ignore* all my bedding plants and congregate on whats left at the end of the day ....i was at first collecting them keeping them over night and releasing them sometimes 2 miles away where i used to live ....and then over the woods where i live now ...but now i dont bother i still do a collection on a wet night in the back garden ...but then just release them on the front lawn by the seed ...and then hopefully a hungry hedgehog gets a chance of a good feed ..Marion

[Gill Catton]

well I have just bought some copper tape from the garden centre and have put it around some of my pots I will let you know the results

[ladylinda]

Yes,slugs and snails love beer!!,but only AFTER they've dined out on my sunflower seedlings,sweet peas and lupins!!

[galanthus]

We've had a blind hedgehog from the rescue centre for 2 years now. We have an enclosed garden although he does pop over to my neighbour's garden for hols . I haven't seen a slug for about the same amount of time. He often wombles around the garden during the day scoffing invertabrates, although I hope he doesn't eat our newly formed frogs Therefore, sling the pellets as planned and help your local hedgehog help centre. pic attached tho it looks huge on the Gallery lol

[m1.carson]

Hi,

We're trying copper mesh cut into strips around her butternut squash, it's already been demolished once.

kymba, if copper works as a deterrent wouldn't any conductor of electricity work if it makes them spark, like cheap steel for instance, I did read that they don't like ingesting it, but surely it will work almost the same.

I know I'm a cheapskate

Max.

[ollyk]

Originally Posted by m1.carson

Hi,

We saw somewhere on the box that the average garden has approx 50 slugs, well, we put down six slug pubs, [fresh beer it has to be ], and the following morning I counted 96 of the drunk little blighters, from 5mm up to the monsters.

Definitely a working deterent, we use the cut off top and bottoms of plastic coke bottles sunk flush into the ground, and I ask our local hostelry to save us a quart coke bottle of beer every time they clean the pumps [NO I'm not allowed near it ].

Somehow this thread has drifted off ponds, perhaps it should be moved.

Max.

I think it is best to raise the containers off the ground to prevent trapping other crawlies.

My mum has been using the beer & grapefruit thing for a few years now and she seems to have an endless supply of slugs!!! Still it seems effective enough!

[demicav]

Hate slug pellets, they should be banned. It just introduces poison into the food chain and the environment.

[Gaina]

Originally Posted by m1.carson

Hi,

We're trying copper mesh cut into strips around her butternut squash, it's already been demolished once.

kymba, if copper works as a deterrent wouldn't any conductor of electricity work if it makes them spark, like cheap steel for instance, I did read that they don't like ingesting it, but surely it will work almost the same.

I know I'm a cheapskate

Max.

Alan Titchmarsh gave the most entertaining explanation for the copper - he says the sensation for them is like licking copper for us because their foot is basically one big tongue too. Eugh! That'd put me off munching Hosters for life!

[eeyore]

gravel works quite well as a deterent, also coils of hemp rope , they dont like crawling over rough stuff

[Gill Catton]

pot with no copper


pot with copper


Nuff said!!