Slug Deterrant?

[HayleyB]

Crikey is bran still around, stopped feeding that to my nags years back when it was shown that bran stopped the digestion of calcium.

Anyway, made a salad bed yesterday all green with herbs as well surrounded with chook grit. I potted up a few Lollo Rossos and red salad bowls as well for back up as I know the slugs won't eat those (last year's experiment), so lets see if I'll be eating green with reds......

I will be making circles around my brassicas too when they go out, watch this space.....

[lottie dolly]

that sounds like a good idea,but where do you get the grit from,what kind of shop

[Digger-07]

I heard that crushed egg shells wors so...
Carefully saved, cooked and crushed enough shells to put round my first courgette as a trial. Area covered was 3inches wide and far enough away so that the slimy critters could not jump onto a leaf. depth of shells was enough to cover all the soil about 1/4 inch deep.
Did it yesterday and went out last night with a torch - 4 slugs chomping away on the plant. definately not in the exclusion zone before the shells went down so what is the answer??

[COMPOST CORNER]

I heard that crushed egg shells wors so...
Carefully saved, cooked and crushed enough shells to put round my first courgette as a trial. Area covered was 3inches wide and far enough away so that the slimy critters could not jump onto a leaf. depth of shells was enough to cover all the soil about 1/4 inch deep.
Did it yesterday and went out last night with a torch - 4 slugs chomping away on the plant. definately not in the exclusion zone before the shells went down so what is the answer??

Could they have been under the soil inside the ring of steel, sorry, eggshell?

[sweetiepea]

I heard that crushed egg shells wors so...
Carefully saved, cooked and crushed enough shells to put round my first courgette as a trial. Area covered was 3inches wide and far enough away so that the slimy critters could not jump onto a leaf. depth of shells was enough to cover all the soil about 1/4 inch deep.
Did it yesterday and went out last night with a torch - 4 slugs chomping away on the plant. definately not in the exclusion zone before the shells went down so what is the answer??

I'm gutted! The local coffee shop/cafe has been saving buckets loads of egg shells for me! Heard such great reports from friends that I thought it would be a sure thing this year. Perhaps I should have known though, my raised beds are surrounded by shape gravel which hasn't stopped the little blighters yet.

[Digger-07]

Could they have been under the soil inside the ring of steel, sorry, eggshell?

They might have been I suppose but last night there were another two! Admittedly these two were much smaller than the first night, but this morning I went down to the killing field and actually watched one slime its way across the no go zone staight into a jar of salt water

I will persevere but my little test has not convinced me yet.

[HayleyB]

Lottie Dolly I got the oyster grit from my feedmerchant - Frontier where I get all my animal food. 20kg bag feels like a ton was really quite cheap can't remember exactly but I was shocked how cheap. Bought it back in January and thought then it'd last the girls a year or so.

I gave up with eggshells, spent ages baking them and crushing - useless

[lottie dolly]

Lottie Dolly I got the oyster grit from my feedmerchant - Frontier where I get all my animal food. 20kg bag feels like a ton was really quite cheap can't remember exactly but I was shocked how cheap. Bought it back in January and thought then it'd last the girls a year or so.

I gave up with eggshells, spent ages baking them and crushing - useless

thanks hayleyb,there is nothing like that near to us,the nearest is aprox 12 and 14 miles away,according to the yellow pages,will have to ring up and see if i can get any,plus price,

[glut]

I planted out my peas a couple of weeks ago and slugs or snails took a fancy to one of them (not sure why only one!) so I surrounded it with bran, and over the next two nights the whole thing got eaten entirely...hmmmpf. I might give the oyster grit a go to keep them off what's left!

[lottie dolly]

I planted out my peas a couple of weeks ago and slugs or snails took a fancy to one of them (not sure why only one!) so I surrounded it with bran, and over the next two nights the whole thing got eaten entirely...hmmmpf. I might give the oyster grit a go to keep them off what's left!

could it have been pigeons,was there any sign of slime

[glut]

definitely slimed...ho hum.

[lottie dolly]

i managed to track some oyster shell grit down today,a large pet shop in the next village,they only had it in small,coffee sized jars,£3.??,they rang me this afternoon to say they can get me a 25 kg bag for friday,£13.50,so i ordered 1,there is a no public allowed place also,but a no go for me,so i will give it a waz and se how things go,if nothing else,it will not harm the ground,the shop said other people buy it from them for the same purpose,and no vat,as it comes under live stock,