weird jelly substance

[essexboyracer]

Hi all,

I have some seeds that have ben growing in various containers in our back yard, all using an Arthur Bowyers soil. It's odd that all of them havedeveloped some strange jelly in small amounts on the top of the soil. It cant be slugs/snails as some of the containers are on a table off the ground. I dont know what it is?

Is it the nearby maple tree? exhaust fumes from the road? The water from the outdoor tap?

[smallblueplanet]

Ohhh is it like some sort of fungi? My compost often grows long thin 'mushroom-like' things!

[poultrychat]

I've got strawberries growing mushrooms

[blossom]

My slugs and snails find their way easily onto tables, shelving, all sorts (even into my house sometimes).

[Alice]

Can you post a pic so that we can see this.

[Geordie]

If its clear jelly i would guess its slugs eggs...goes well with strawberry ice cream

[chickenkeeper]

I have this 2 on a couple of my growbags and also on some hanging bags I have with flowers in, I assumed it was some water retaining granules added to the compost that had swelled in the recent rains

[essexboyracer]

Dodgy jelly stuff as in attached images, could be the water granules

[Geordie]

Its not slugs eggs

[Alice]

Looks totally waterlogged. I would bet on the water granules.

[voodoo veg]

Well I have NEVER used said water granules and have NEVER had this phenomena in my garden!!!!!!!!!

ps. I thought slug eggs were round and orange

[SueA]

Essexboy, if it feels like thick wallpaper paste I'd say it's just your water-retaining granules which have come to the suface.
Voodoo, slug eggs are round & usually creamy, clearish or white colour & stuck together in clumps like sago (or do I mean tapioca?) pudding.

[lyndap]

Yuk, now I know why I never could stand either of those puddings!!!!

[essexboyracer]

Thanks everyone for your replies. Next time I buy a bag of compost I'll check exactly what it contains!

[gcroft]

slim mold?

it looks to me like a slime mold in its early stages it could be water crystals the way to be sure is in a few days / weeks see if it produces fruiting bodies, i found this pic on the web which shows a mold that has started to undergo the production of fruiting bodies

http://www.deh.gov.au/biodiversity/a...smodium-lg.jpg