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  Posted by joanne (U14429175) on Monday, 9th August 2010

  hello, well I am fuming and had to resort to the salt. I went out this morning to check on my little lettuce seedlings under the cloche and a snail had been in again. It's one of those green cloches with zip that you can peg down. I made sure that there were'nt any gaps and still one got in. They are leaving my parsnips and carrots alone but the lettuces are suffering . At this rate I won't have any. We've eaten all the lettuces I had grown.Anyway I came up with idea to put salt down that doesn't affect the plants. I cut up the egg part off a plastic egg carton and sunk slightly in the soil filled the sections with salt just around the edge so as they enter they'll get a shock. When we had the cloch on the patio it worked before. this means war. They won't eat my lettuces and get away with it

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  Posted by farmerSteve (U2644680) on Monday, 9th August 2010

  I would not use salt as it is absolutely lethal to plants
  Their are plenty of slug killers which are far more friendly the iron phosphate ones will feed your plants while killing slugs

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  Posted by joanne (U14429175) on Monday, 9th August 2010

  The salt is no where near any plants I have made like a trough of plastic that the salt is sat in ready for any snails. No salt will in any way touch the soil joanne

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  Posted by punpun (U14553477) on Monday, 9th August 2010

  Try an old plastic butter dish (as bought in the super market) fill it with ale and put in the area we're your lettuce are "the slugs/snails will go for the ale and drown.

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  Posted by juststartingoff (U11189730) on Monday, 9th August 2010

  I'm only after cutting open a homegrown green pepper to find a slug inside! Needless to say the whole thing went over the wall into the field.

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  Posted by joanne (U14429175) on Monday, 9th August 2010

  I usually stand on the buggers when I find them great satisfaction and that lovely crunch they make joanne

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  Posted by calculad (U3607616) on Monday, 9th August 2010

  I pop em in the compost bin and make em earn their keep. "Sadly" it gets so hot they cook.
  In fact this year I have had ants, woodlice, slugs and snails in one compost bin and they have produced some really well broken down material especially the ants.

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  Posted by mummyduckegg (U8437139) on Monday, 9th August 2010

  Try the "growing success" organic slug pellets - they work really well, and are safe for pets and wild animals. The slugs crawl away and die rather than dying on the spot as they did with the old ones.
  
  Or go round on a damp night and pick them up - me and OH collected a large coffee jar in about 10 minutes!

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  Posted by joanne (U14429175) on Tuesday, 10th August 2010

  yes yes yes the salt troughs worked once my lettuces sre well established I shall remove the troughs and maybe the cloche. My last lot of lettuce were at the other end of the raised up bed
  so bit safer from the snails.They had further to go for a nosh. I haven't got room for a compost heap or bin. I have a 10x8 greenhouse small shed which is being converted into a chicken house with run
  3 bloomin household bins which is a pain and small patio area. We've had to put off getting our chickens do to hubby not being able to finish the run with all this rain we've been getting. When I think sometimes and look out the back bedroom window I am amazed just how much is in my modest mid terraced back garden joanne

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