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Things are coming on.

Forgot to put the pictures up. Oh and some of the lettuce is planted out with more to come.
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Not sure how effective it is going to be but my father in law is busy scattering egg shells around his tomatoes to keep the slugs away.

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38thfoot said:
Not sure how effective it is going to be but my father in law is busy scattering egg shells around his tomatoes to keep the slugs away.

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Do Egg Shells Help Stop Snails From Eating Plants?

Children are usually fascinated with snails, but home gardeners know that snails are hungry little critters that can quickly decimate a garden seemingly overnight. It's hard to know how to get rid of them. Your neighbor might mention using beer to attract and drown them. Another home gardener...
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Might not be true mind, cant believe everything you find on the web
 
The theory of the egg shells is that slugs allegedly don't like the sharp edges to crawl over. I tried copper bands around plant plots that seems to work keeping the snails off. I always thought a pet hedgehog was the answer but even that's been done down because they only eat them if desperate for food. If only they were edible.......
 
The typical garden snail is infact edible, might try after a bottle of whiskey mind , and plenty of snails in the freezers over here in France
 
Medwayman said:
The typical garden snail is infact edible, might try after a bottle of whiskey mind , and plenty of snails in the freezers over here in France
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Escargo, a little melted garlic butter and salt YUMMY
 
Just consulted 'the gardener' in the house, she says beer traps work for slugs but not snails, we did egg shells in the past and she thinks they worked but at the allotment she used pellets. Any snails found, I have free range to dispatch, despite her being a goddamn veggie hippy.
 
Bam said:
Just consulted 'the gardener' in the house, she says beer traps work for slugs but not snails, we did egg shells in the past and she thinks they worked but at the allotment she used pellets. Any snails found, I have free range to dispatch, despite her being a goddamn veggie hippy.
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I occasionally shoot them with my SMK for a bit of light relief
 
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Bam said:
No idea what a SMK is, I tend to just squish them with a size 11, seems to do the trick. ;)
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Smk is my cheap little. 22 rifle firing at 8.5 and perfect for slugs......and pigeons
 
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