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Muddymike
Sep 16, 2016, 5:25:45 AM9/16/16
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I have a plastic dustbin in use as a water butt one side of my
greenhouse. I lift the lid and dunk the watering can to fill it.
I often find slugs around the inside of the bin rim and knock them into
the water. They always sink towards the bottom but more appear quite
regularly, hence my question.
Mike
greenhouse. I lift the lid and dunk the watering can to fill it.
I often find slugs around the inside of the bin rim and knock them into
the water. They always sink towards the bottom but more appear quite
regularly, hence my question.
Mike
Broadback
Sep 16, 2016, 5:32:25 AM9/16/16
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to the top.
PeterC
Sep 16, 2016, 11:36:57 AM9/16/16
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follow the water level as I take out water, I assumed that they're leeches.
I couldn't resist 'stroking' one - there didn't seem to be slime (although
my hands were wet at the time).
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Spider
Sep 20, 2016, 11:34:35 AM9/20/16
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On 16/09/2016 10:25, Muddymike wrote:
possible, I suppose, that the unlucky ones have found themselves in
water where some plant food residue lingers ... or perhaps different
types of slug have evolved to live and cope in wetter ground. I'm sure
the latter is a possibility. I have never seen a slug doing the breast
stroke, for which I am heartily grateful!
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Gardening on heavy clay
David Hill
Sep 20, 2016, 5:56:23 PM9/20/16
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Broadback
Sep 21, 2016, 4:27:45 AM9/21/16
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Spider
Sep 21, 2016, 8:17:10 AM9/21/16
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On 20/09/2016 22:56, David Hill wrote:
Muddymike
Sep 22, 2016, 6:02:22 AM9/22/16
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Mike
martinj...@gmail.com
Mar 28, 2018, 4:06:24 AM3/28/18
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alan_m
Mar 28, 2018, 11:02:20 AM3/28/18
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On 28/03/2018 09:06, martinj...@gmail.com wrote:
> Yes I did the same in an enclosed water butt, knocked bit fat slug off above the water line he spiralled to the bottom but was back the following morning!
>
Make Your Own Slug Nematodes
> Yes I did the same in an enclosed water butt, knocked bit fat slug off above the water line he spiralled to the bottom but was back the following morning!
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg1cosZY6k0
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Ian Jackson
Apr 5, 2018, 3:31:45 AM4/5/18
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In message <fi1p3q...@mid.individual.net>, alan_m
<ju...@admac.myzen.co.uk> writes
just as good a job as worms at consuming and excreting what I put in.
Some of the slugs are real beauties - all shiny and black, or
fluorescent orange - and often 3+" long. If I find any in the garden I
usually transfer them to one of the bins, where they can live for the
rest of their lives in total luxury.
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Ian
<ju...@admac.myzen.co.uk> writes
>On 28/03/2018 09:06, martinj...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Yes I did the same in an enclosed water butt, knocked bit fat slug
>>off above the water line he spiralled to the bottom but was back the
>>following morning!
>>
>
>Make Your Own Slug Nematodes
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg1cosZY6k0
>
In my compost bins, slugs (and, for that matter, woodlice) seem to do
>
>> Yes I did the same in an enclosed water butt, knocked bit fat slug
>>off above the water line he spiralled to the bottom but was back the
>>following morning!
>>
>
>Make Your Own Slug Nematodes
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg1cosZY6k0
>
just as good a job as worms at consuming and excreting what I put in.
Some of the slugs are real beauties - all shiny and black, or
fluorescent orange - and often 3+" long. If I find any in the garden I
usually transfer them to one of the bins, where they can live for the
rest of their lives in total luxury.
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Ian
Vir Campestris
Apr 5, 2018, 4:36:22 PM4/5/18
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On 05/04/2018 08:31, Ian Jackson wrote:
> In my compost bins, slugs (and, for that matter, woodlice) seem to do
> just as good a job as worms at consuming and excreting what I put in.
> Some of the slugs are real beauties - all shiny and black, or
> fluorescent orange - and often 3+" long. If I find any in the garden I
> usually transfer them to one of the bins, where they can live for the
> rest of their lives in total luxury.
It's spring today, and the frogs are having an orgy in the pond. Perhaps
> In my compost bins, slugs (and, for that matter, woodlice) seem to do
> just as good a job as worms at consuming and excreting what I put in.
> Some of the slugs are real beauties - all shiny and black, or
> fluorescent orange - and often 3+" long. If I find any in the garden I
> usually transfer them to one of the bins, where they can live for the
> rest of their lives in total luxury.
that's why we don't have much of a slug problem?
Andy
Janet
Apr 6, 2018, 5:17:36 AM4/6/18
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In article <pa61c5$203$4...@dont-email.me>, vir.cam...@invalid.invalid
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Our frogs spawned on Sunday; yesterday I noticed almost all of it has
disappeared. Too soon for it to have hatched so I suspect it's been
gobbled by the larger fish (8").
Janet.
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disappeared. Too soon for it to have hatched so I suspect it's been
gobbled by the larger fish (8").
Janet.
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