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07/06/2008, 9:02 Bastet Joined on 06/02/2006 Deux-Sèvres Posts 208 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs Okay folks, it appears that the mulch our commune is using something called 'Paille de Chanvre'.  The best translation I can come up with is that this is shredded hemp.  The commune have obtained it from a garden centre in Melle, 79, where coincidentally, the wife of the Chef de Commune works.  It's behind Intermarché, where Mr Bricolage used to be. I have no idea of cost or its availability in other garden centres. "If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve the man but it would deteriorate the cat"    Report

07/06/2008, 10:33 sweet 17 Joined on 05/08/2006 charente maritime Posts 2,985 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs Bastet, thank you so much for taking the trouble to find out and for coming back to post your answer. I'll ask at the agricole coop to begin with and will "rechercher", as the French say.    Report

07/06/2008, 13:16 Bastet Joined on 06/02/2006 Deux-Sèvres Posts 208 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs My pleasure.  I just hope I've read his writing correctly. It could have been chauvre, so I posted a question on a language/dictionary forum about mulch possibilities and the response was it was definitely chanvre.  If it wasn't for the fact that the cats would probably love it as a loo, I'd look into getting it for our garden.... "If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve the man but it would deteriorate the cat"    Report

07/06/2008, 16:35 sweet 17 Joined on 05/08/2006 charente maritime Posts 2,985 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs Do you have cats, Bastet, you lucky person! Even if they do use the stuff as a loo, they'd cover it all up so, as long as you always wear gloves when you're gardening, it shouldn't be a problem!    Report

07/06/2008, 22:22 tegwini Joined on 19/09/2007 Wiltshire & Vienne Posts 282 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs I've tried soot & bits of ash from the barbeque- they do seem to work, and holly likewise - a bit easier since I have lots in a hedge - I just snip bits off & surround special plants. Snails can be picked off & thrown onto the road   (or next door?!)  slugs I often throw onto the driveway hoping the birds will get them.  I do sometimes wonder if slugs are really tasty to them. So many slugs & snails around now with all this rain, difficult around vegetables, it is a  real problem to protect them.  With flowers  it's diffucult if you are a bird lover..   I have used slug pellets, but feel guilty using them-  I worry that my bird-brained feathered friends may decide to eat them,  but I doubt that dogs would. Regards Tegwini I think, therefore perhaps I am...    Report

07/06/2008, 22:28 sweet 17 Joined on 05/08/2006 charente maritime Posts 2,985 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs I am too cowardly to kill anything but the crushed egg-shells and walnut-shells seem to be detering the slugs. I, too, worry about slug pellets. Don't know what killed the squirrel the dog brought in this evening.  I don't think that she was the killer on this occasion as the squirrel was quite stiff so it would have been killed sometime ago.    Report

10/06/2008, 17:49 Bastet Joined on 06/02/2006 Deux-Sèvres Posts 208 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs Was in Melle today so checked out the garden centre & found that this product is actually sold as Paillis Chanvre, (did I say I couldn't read the handwriting?) and is in 100 litre bags for approx 19€. That amount supposedly covers 2-3 sq m. "If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve the man but it would deteriorate the cat"    Report

10/06/2008, 18:13 sweet 17 Joined on 05/08/2006 charente maritime Posts 2,985 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs Nice bit of investigation there, Bastet, and thanks again for reporting back.  Does it seem a bit expensive to you?    Report

11/06/2008, 10:01 Meg and Mog Joined on 17/02/2006 Mog is back! Posts 2,003 Re: dog friendly but fatal to slugs Copper tape works really well. In the veggie patch you can cut the top and bottom off of plastic bottles to go over the plant and put a ring of the tape round it. Same around plant pots. I tried a mixture of hair and eggshells around some parsley i just planted out, but no luck it had all been totally scoffed by the morning. I am growing melons/cucumbers, and as the plants were getting eaten so much while in pots, i planted them out quite early with a lot of sand around the base, and they have survived! MIL has tried nematodes with very limited results. My newest hobby is slug slinging. Meg & Mog .    Report

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