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Control: Bed of nails (the barrier method)
Imagine you are out in your bare feet, you need to get to the nice juicy strawberries on the other side of the garden. Some delightful soul has sprinkled a handful of tacks, some sharp edged pieces of broken glass or even set up a bed of nails for *@*? sake. Set up a barrier…
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Pest Profile: Slugs
Slugs Slugs are persistent and widespread pests which can cause havoc in the garden, eating holes in leaves, stems, flowers, tubers and bulbs. They can cause damage throughout the year on a wide range of plants, but seedlings and new growth on herbaceous plants in spring are most at risk. See the original article at https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=228 RHS…
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From the Archive: Slugging it out in the garden – The Irish Times
JANE POWERS presents a who’s who of garden culprits IT IS THE time of the year when people who have never grown anything before take to the garden. This is entirely a good thing, and should be encouraged. Growing plants – as every gardener knows – fosters contentment and connectedness with nature, gets one out…
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People: Slug identification by Prof. Bill Symondson
Britain is the slug capital of the world. Nowhere else has such ideal conditions for a broad range of slug species, for our cool, damp summers and warmish, wet winters allow slugs to be active, breeding and feeding for so much of the year. Added to this, we have recently suffered a succession of milder…
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What is going on?
This blog will deal with an issue all of us British gardeners have to deal with, slugs. Hopefully, as I find resources on the web, I’ll add them here (or at least link to them) so that you don’t have to do the searching. This being the world wide web, hopefully we’ll get a few comments from…
Eaten by Slugs 