Slugs

Thats too funny!!!

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DogDiesel
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:-)) Perhaps you need to go buy some Vegemite or Marmite or Promite :-))))) If you don't like the taste of it on your toast, (and anyone with any degree of discernment, style and class will of course like it on their toast) you can use it on the gastropods.

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FarmI

Indeed. But I suspect we might be laughing at different things.

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FarmI

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DogDiesel

What? It's better than Nuss Nuggat with raspberry jam on toast? I already have enough habits, most of them are bad, but I await the opportunity to give it a go ;O)

I'm not sure what my formerly rampaging gangs of snails and slugs are having for breakfast in that Gastropod Valhalla where they now reside.

Saw your waterspouts on the telly, very impressive, WOW.

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Billy

Whoops, Nuss Nuggat is what they call it in Germany, in the States we use the French brand, Nutella.

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Billy

I'm sure we've all got a few habits we should give up.

I do hope there is a gardener there with large boots who likes nothing so much as the satisfying crunch as the boot comes down on those soft slimy bodies.

I just had to do a google. Very big and scary looking beasties. Wish those selfish sods would send some decent rain in my direction - it always seems to fall over the coastal cites these days. Sigh.

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FarmI

We got 70mm this week and 30mm last week, I'll email you some.

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David Hare-Scott

The iron phosphate slug killers are safe,

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General Schvantzkoph

try filling a old pair of tights with road salt place them on ya border FOR AN INSTANT CURE !!!

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Urban Wildlife

The above may be someone's idea of a joke, but to be sure that there is no miss understanding, adding salt to garden soil is a very dumb idea.

Causes of soil salinity Salt-affected soils are caused by excess accumulation of salts, typically most pronounced at the soil surface. Salts can be transported to the soil surface by capillary transport from a salt laden water table and then accumulate due to evaporation. They can also be concentrated in soils due to human activity, for example the use of potassium as fertilizer, which can form sylvite, a naturally occurring salt. As soil salinity increases, salt effects can result in degradation of soils and vegetation. Salinization is a process that results from: ? high levels of salt in the soils. ? landscape features that allow salts to become mobile. (movement of water table) ? climatic trends that favor accumulation. ? human activities such as land clearing, aquaculture activities and the salting of icy roads.[2]

Consequences of salinity The consequences of salinity are ? detrimental effects on plant growth and yield ? damage to infrastructure (roads, bricks, corrosion of pipes and cables) ? reduction of water quality for users, sedimentation problems ? soil erosion ultimately, when crops are too strongly affected by the amounts of salts. Salinity is an important land degradation problem. Soil salinity can be reduced by leaching soluble salts out of soil with excess irrigation water. Soil salinity control involves watertable control and flushing in combination with tile drainage or another form of subsurface drainage.[4][5] A comprehensive treatment of soil salinity is available from the FAO.[6] High levels of soil salinity can be tolerated if salt-tolerant plants are grown. Sensitive crops lose their vigor already in slightly saline soils, most crops are negatively affected by (moderately) saline soils, and only salinity resistant crops thrive in severely saline soils. The University of Wyoming [7] and the Government of Alberta [8] report data on the salt tolerance of plants.

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Billy

Salt is not good for the soil, your cure may turn out worse than the problem.

David

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David Hare-Scott

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