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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2014 10:03 pm Post subject: Help with Hostas |
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I was visiting a cousin today and she was telling me that the prize plants in her gardens are her Hostas. But she says she is plagued with slugs and snails damaging them. Do any of you know of an organic method rather than the slug pellets that she doesn't want to use? I had heard of a concoction of garlic, chillie peppers and soap flakes or something similar, can any of you advance on this please. _________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
This boy can really sing http://youtu.be/Dgv78D2duBE |
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tippben Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 15 Jan 2011 Posts: 921 Location: north tipperary
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Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2014 4:01 am Post subject: |
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There are organic pellets , ferric sulphate, I think. |
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Greengage Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 09 Nov 2011 Posts: 3131 Location: Kildare
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Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2014 10:02 am Post subject: |
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Maybe we should not be growing hostas then we would not have a problem, Joking.
last year I resorted to collecting slugs and snails at night a collected up to 500+ then gave up counting and let the hens loose in the garden but that created other problems.
You could use copper rings.
Ground coffee ask in starbucks or Costa for leftovers.
I also heard 10% vinigar solution sprayed on with a handsprayer also works.
and finally a hand reared flock of thrushes and blackbirds.  |
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Good guy Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 11 Feb 2013 Posts: 2593 Location: Donegal
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 4:49 pm Post subject: |
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A healthy variety of wildlife always helps to balanc things. As well as birds, frogs and hedgehogs eat slugs.
After my early lettuce got devastated by slugs while I was on holiday last year (despite coffee grounds, holly leaves, crushed shells and pellets) I used nematodes. End of problem. They are quite expensive, but used on sensitive areas , maybe only once, they should reduce the problem. |
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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Thank y'all for the input. The 10% vinegar one appeals the most in her situation. Anyone heard of the chillie spray or something similar? I did mention every other remedy that you mentioned in my initial chat with her. _________________ “It’s my field. It’s my child. I nursed it. I nourished it. I saw to its every want. I dug the rocks out of it with my bare hands and I made a living thing of it!”
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mountainy man Rank attained: Hawthorn Tree


Joined: 18 Apr 2010 Posts: 83 Location: south east sligo
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Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2014 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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If any of you are especially fond of hostas I can recomend this forum which I joined recently, its members are from US and Canada mainly but there are a few of us Europeans, it seems to be the font of all knoledge regarding hostas including slug problems.
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/hosta/? |
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