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27/05/2008, 9:09 mossie Joined on 27/05/2006 Posts 83 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs I have just started my first potager but am getting some expert advice from an elderly French neigbour who has a completely perfect veg patch.  He turned up the other day with some young lettuce plants for me and a bucket of wood ash.  He has been gardening organically all his life and not one of the leaves of his crop have been nibbled, so I tend to value his advice.  He uses coffee grounds to deter the ants.  However he does not have a dog. I would be very reluctant to use slug pellets.  They kill the slugs but also then the animals which eat the slugs.  I have a friend who lost his Springer Spaniel because he ate some sort of pellet the farmer had put into his maize field.  Not the same thing I know but just shows how nasty these chemicals can be.  As the owner of a Springer and a maize field (farmed by a neighbour) of course this set alarms ringing.    Report

27/05/2008, 11:18 sweet 17 Joined on 05/08/2006 charente maritime Posts 2,355 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs Thanks, mossie.  I have not used pellets.  At the moment, the walnut- and egg-shells seem to be effective round the new lettuce plants.  And the beans are now too sturdy to be killed off by slugs. I do have a clematis which has struggled for over a year and every time the poor thing puts out a new leaf, it (the leaf) gets nibbled to its veins.  Gr.............    Report

27/05/2008, 11:36 Russethouse Joined on 23/08/2004 Forum Moderator Posts 9,806 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs  Apparently the woman who holds the national collection of hostas uses a liquid she makes up by boiling 2 bubs of garlic in 2 litres of water, she waters it over the hostas but the downside is that when it rains you have to do it again. I'm trying to think of a way of incorporating the slugs hatred of garlic into a more user friendly method. Any ideas ? www.quimperclub.org 99    Report

27/05/2008, 12:02 Pierre ZFP Joined on 12/11/2004 PdC(62)/Luxembourg Posts 1,758 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs Garlic butter? so they would be like pre-peeled escargot? Fool me once, shame on you Fool me twice, shame on me Fool me 3 times and you can see a statistical tendency    Report

27/05/2008, 12:46 sweet 17 Joined on 05/08/2006 charente maritime Posts 2,355 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs Pierre, I'll eat them if you go ahead and taste first, OK?    Report

27/05/2008, 12:58 tracteurtom Joined on 09/01/2007 19 Correze Posts 346 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs  Russethouse wrote:  Apparently the woman who holds the national collection of hostas uses a liquid she makes up by boiling 2 bubs of garlic in 2 litres of water, she waters it over the hostas but the downside is that when it rains you have to do it again. I'm trying to think of a way of incorporating the slugs hatred of garlic into a more user friendly method. Any ideas ?   Pizza - but then the French dont but garlic on pizza   !!!! Its quite common to gut garlic and onion plants around more sensitive subjects.    Report

01/06/2008, 13:34 Bastet Joined on 06/02/2006 Deux-Sèvres Posts 208 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs Going back to an idea suggested earlier, I'd like to say that our local commune has mulched all the public flower beds with what looks like finely shredded wood. It's pale in colour and is definitely not sawdust. Anyway, within days, the suface was covered with dead snails so I'd say it works pretty well.  If we ever get a summer, I imagine it'll also help moisture conservation. "If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve the man but it would deteriorate the cat"    Report

01/06/2008, 13:53 sweet 17 Joined on 05/08/2006 charente maritime Posts 2,355 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs Any chance of finding out what this stuff is?  Do you think you could ask somebody what it's called and whether it is readily available?    Report

02/06/2008, 15:33 Bastet Joined on 06/02/2006 Deux-Sèvres Posts 208 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs I'll try asking our across-the-road neighbour when I see him next. He used to be in charge of public works here. "If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve the man but it would deteriorate the cat"    Report

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