Slug Hunting.

[PyreneesPlot]

Seaweed is a fabulous idea - good in so many ways.

The birds take one look at our slugs and realise who is more likely to eat who!

[PyreneesPlot]

325 tonight - warm again and wet after big thunderstorms.

Cut the edges of the grass paths around the beds before the rain and about half the slugs were on the clippings. Rest were on the peas.

[Tripmeup]

Interrupted my glass of red for a quick look around the garden and took care of the poor slugs I found out in the dark

[iam]

325 tonight - warm again and wet after big thunderstorms..

Whats this warm, all I get is cold and wet

[PyreneesPlot]

Must have been a glitch. 3 days of continuous rain, max 19 min 1. Slugs 141, 75 & 90.

[veggiechicken]

What's the total so far this year PP?

[KittyColdNose]

One tonight. Caught it munching on my cabbages the fat chunk.

[pipscariad]

This thread has given me the fear. How can there be that many slugs in one persons garden, where are they all coming from??! I thought I'd found a lot on my plot over the past three days, but at only around 300 (only?), I'm a novice.

Get 'em all in a nematode brew, although PP would need a dustbin rather than a bucket for his/hers!

[Keira]

I have nothing placed out yet other than vegetables so they'll be starving if the come here. I've never even believed if going out tracking for them.

[Daffy]

My mum works for our local wildlife rescue centre. They are always looking for places to rehome hedgehogs. They need to be fed regularly, that's pretty much it. I'm sure you probably all have local rescue centres much the same.

[KittyColdNose]

Just three slugs last night. I am still pulling up more sunflowers than there are slugs.

[alldigging]

Giant, fluorescent pink slugs found on mountain

What about some pink ones?

[PyreneesPlot]

Wow, Alldigging, if I was hunting for them I wouldn't need a head torch!

I've been very slack this last week - too bloomin cold and wet. And even the slugs agreed - total figs for the last 7 days is 140.

Oh, and 137mm of rain. The river in our valley is currently 5 times its normal level, but less than half as deep as the worst recorded flooding. The mind boggles. And to think I dismiss nematodes because it's too dry....

[PyreneesPlot]

Back to normal last night - warm and wet.
Slugs 333 and a vine weevil on a hosta pot. May explain why the leaves are going limp and yellow.

[Kitchen Gardener]

I thankfully don't see a lot of slugs here (perhaps it is the salty air or maybe my frogs in the pond) but we do see snails. Again not as many snails as we had in Bradford and when there I used to chuck them over the wall into the road so that passing cars squashed them after reading that they had a homing instinct - my feeling was if they were squashed they couldn't come back. Horrid slimy things.