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  • #16
    Originally posted by ancee View Post
    I do find it hard to squash them, but I really hate them! I really don't like killing anything, but they make me so mad, they're just so greedy and inconsiderate! ��
    Don't generally like harming anything but no problems with spearing slugs on a fork or crushing them under my boot. That said the frog army from the wildlife pond really does keep the population down and if the amount of frog spawn there at the weekend is anything to go by then it'll be great this year

    Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

    Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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    • #17
      Originally posted by ancee View Post
      I do find it hard to squash them, but I really hate them! I really don't like killing anything, but they make me so mad, they're just so greedy and inconsiderate! ��
      Brought a massive smile to my face

      inconsiderate buggers

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Alison View Post
        Don't generally like harming anything but no problems with spearing slugs on a fork or crushing them under my boot. That said the frog army from the wildlife pond really does keep the population down and if the amount of frog spawn there at the weekend is anything to go by then it'll be great this year
        Alison, really must get to grips with my inherited pond. Love frogs and the birds seem to congregate there too. If frogs neutralise the slug threat, bring on the frogs!!!
        ~~~ Gardening is medicine that does not need
        a prescription ... And with no limit on dosage.
        - Author Unknown ~~~

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        • #19
          Originally posted by SusieG View Post
          Alison, really must get to grips with my inherited pond. Love frogs and the birds seem to congregate there too. If frogs neutralise the slug threat, bring on the frogs!!!
          There were two HUGE areas of frog spawn there when I looked on Sunday, there's usually plenty but this is definitely more than normal. Meant to take a photo but forgot, will have to remember this weekend.

          Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

          Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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          • #20
            Originally posted by kathyd View Post
            Difficult isn't it? But this is exactly how the farmers feel when we fight to get neonicitonoids etc banned... It's a real dilemma, not sure how we address it
            Didn't post that to turn this thread political, just thought it needed to be said as wasn't expecting that answer at the time. When the staff member said about the EU banning stuff and I turned around and looked at the shelves there were loads of gaps.

            Don't get me wrong banning DDT and some of the other nasty stuff was correct but a lot of stuff they are stopping us using now is just crazy and is nowhere near as bad.

            As for slugs and snails, I pick em up and throw them in the stream that runs past our allotments along the border, if they survive that and crawl out alive then they deserve to live. Might give em a decent death and put beer traps down this year, let em have 'death by hangover'.
            The day that Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck ...

            ... is the day they make vacuum cleaners

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            • #21
              I go slug truffling most nights when my garden is in full swing. They are popped in a tub then tipped over the wall at the front garden into the stream for the frogs
              When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.
              If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

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