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Ado 2 Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood
Joined: 15 May 2015 Posts: 1204 Location: Dublin
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 11:41 am Post subject: |
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I just did it once. It worked for my growing season. Seedlings etc were safe |
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Gardini Rank attained: Hazel Tree

Joined: 07 Jun 2017 Posts: 11
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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Ok that doesn't sound too bad worth giving it a go. I put out my bran there this evening to test it out - so hopefully some unsuspecting slugs will stuff themselves into oblivion later . |
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Keeks Rank attained: Silver Birch Tree

Joined: 14 Apr 2012 Posts: 168
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2017 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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Ado 2 wrote: | I just did it once. It worked for my growing season. Seedlings etc were safe |
What about the following season?.....were thye back with a vengence? |
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 31 Dec 2014 Posts: 2029 Location: West Fermanagh
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Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:05 am Post subject: |
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I have used Sluggo and nematodes (try amazon for the nematodes). Fewer slugs but still overun with snails! My mum's beloved hostas got clobbered early on but a combination of the above (and a very helpful thrush) has seen them recover.
Sluggo works very well around lettuce and celery. _________________ Be humble, for you are made of earth
Be noble, for you are made of stars |
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Gardini Rank attained: Hazel Tree

Joined: 07 Jun 2017 Posts: 11
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2017 8:33 am Post subject: |
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Well I've tried the bran over the last few nights, unsure how successful it was but I do know a few birds definitely got plumper off it . Need to build a some little shelters for it to stop the birds and will try again.... |
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Gautama Rank attained: Silver Birch Tree

Joined: 29 Aug 2008 Posts: 172 Location: Cork
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 8:42 am Post subject: |
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There's any organic slug pellet sold by the Irish Seed Savers Association (and others that promote organic growing) that works quiet well.
It's a chemical, but that doesn't mean it can't be used in organic gardening.
(Don't forget that chemical fertilisers are NOT permitted in organic gardening but certain chemical pest control ARE permitted, e.g. Bluestone).
Anyway, when the slugs eat these organic chemical pellets they take 12 hours to die. As they feel sick they retreat to a safe haven, die, and rot into the soil. No birds or other wildlife consume the slug and the poison.
Traditional slug pellets kill the slugs in less than an hour, leaving their dead bodies scattered around the place. Then birds see them, eat them, get poisoned too. |
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tagwex Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 23 Feb 2010 Posts: 5188 Location: Co. Wexford
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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Well I bought a 500 g jar of those blue pellets. Trade name escapes me at the moment. Liberally sprinkled the greenhouse with them and yet I still find healthy slugs in and around my lettuces. So its a no to killing within the hour. _________________ “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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Blowin Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 930 Location: Drimoleague, Co Cork
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 4:29 am Post subject: |
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Tagwex. look for 'Doff' pellets in a white plastic container. They're probably no different to all the others, in that they're the same colour etc., but each pellet's only a fraction of the size of the ones we normally see. It's therefore easy to squirt a few round each seedling as you plant them and, in my case, I haven't lost a single one last year or this. Being smaller, they seem to last much longer too. _________________ A novice gardener on newly cultivated, stoney ground. |
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Gardini Rank attained: Hazel Tree

Joined: 07 Jun 2017 Posts: 11
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 11:20 am Post subject: |
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Slug bait which are iron phosphate based are still allowed (e.g sluggo) - if uses responsibly should have little ill effects on other wildlife. Doff as far as I know are Metaldehyde-based so should not be used for organic gardening. .
Think overall you probably need a combination of Sluggo & nemaslug for slugs and a good old beer trap for snails from what I can see. |
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Blowin Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 930 Location: Drimoleague, Co Cork
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 11:28 am Post subject: |
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Fair enough, but, while I'm generally in favour of an organic approach wherever possible, I'm prepared to 'stray' if I must. To the purist that'll mean I'm not organic, but I can live with that. _________________ A novice gardener on newly cultivated, stoney ground. |
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 31 Dec 2014 Posts: 2029 Location: West Fermanagh
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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Ado 2 wrote: | Nematodes from Mr. Middleton. A natural organism that clears slugs. Ive tried it. It works | It's OK, but doesn't seem to effect snails. They still made lace doilies out of my mum's hostas.
Nemasys and Nemaslug are both cheaper on 'tinterweb.  _________________ Be humble, for you are made of earth
Be noble, for you are made of stars |
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Gardini Rank attained: Hazel Tree

Joined: 07 Jun 2017 Posts: 11
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Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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Just learning the organic side myself - trying to figure out which products I can use and which are effective at moment - think my next stop is caterpillars - done a fair bit of damage to my cabbages this year - Think I will cover them next year with a fleece. |
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Gautama Rank attained: Silver Birch Tree

Joined: 29 Aug 2008 Posts: 172 Location: Cork
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 5:57 am Post subject: |
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If you have the time and wish to save money and the planet, the most environmentally friendly way of tackling slugs is probably to "grow your own" nematodes.
I've never tried it but it seems straightforward enough.
Google it, there was an article in one of the Lahndahn papers about it a few years back. |
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Blowin Rank attained: Vegetable garden tender
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 930 Location: Drimoleague, Co Cork
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 7:34 am Post subject: |
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I'm a little bit suspicious about systems you have to 'learn', if only because the information you look up is only what another human being thinks? Essentially, if something has grown, it needed nutrients to form so, when it decays, those goodies will be available for re-use if sited next to a new plant. Back in the UK some years ago the bracken on a local common was mown and stacked up in a huge heap. I availed myself of some of it and it composted down into a nice dark moist material but, being bracken, was presumably full of cyanide. Nature copes with these things so that's what I rely on but, as Sue says, if it nukes the natural live things, it probably isn't good. Having said that, boiled rhubarb leaves (highly poisonous, at least to us) will blast aphids off things like broad beans without further damage to the plot. Nature is perfection, so look there first? _________________ A novice gardener on newly cultivated, stoney ground. |
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Sue Deacon Rank attained: Chlorophyll for blood

Joined: 31 Dec 2014 Posts: 2029 Location: West Fermanagh
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Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2017 8:12 am Post subject: |
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Blowin - in the same vein, the same gardeners who used rhubarb leaves would have used nicotine smoke cones in the greenhouse. It has always struck me as odd that my Dave enjoys inhaling a substance that, in Victorian times, a gardener would light then leg it out of the greenhouse before the stuff took effect. I mean only an idiot would drink rhubarb leaf tea, but it's OK to smoke a poisonous fumigant. (You'd never guess him smoking is the bane of my life)
Just a thought, I wonder if dog-end tea would work on gooseberry sawfly? nothing else does! _________________ Be humble, for you are made of earth
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