When we came back from our break and had the front door open to unpack the car - this chap let himself in. I suspect he lives pretty near the front door as he often leaves a tiny present on the doorstep. We have quite a lot of frogs and toads in our garden which is pretty surprising as I don't have any areas which don't get fettled by me at one time or another (no peace for the wicked); also I don't have any water in the garden, unless you count the bird bath! Nevertheless, as I said, I'm pleased to say our friendly slug eaters live here. We also see the scat of a hedgehog now and again who visits fairly regularly and must do his bit. I still suffer pretty badly from slugs and last week I found my first snail! To add insult to injury it was a huge one with brown and orange striped shell. I do use organic pellets without which the garden wouldn't stand a chance. I've reduced the population dramatically from that which I inherited in the football pitch outside the back door when we bought the house three years ago.
Beer in plastic cups (sunk in the soil)is pretty useful at getting rid of slugs.
ReplyDeleteLike yourself I also use organic pellets. Someone told me they affect hedgehogs though, and made me re-think about the pellets, but on reading an article on this web page:
http://www.wildlife-web.org.uk/hedgehog/facts/dangers.html
it says it would take 40-50 times as much to kill a hedgehog than a slug.
I have tried beer traps and they do collect a load of slugs but I think they didn't deal with the amount I inherited. The pellets have knocked 'em back quite a lot in two years and things are now doable. Think I'll do a post on pellets - thanks for the prompt.
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