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Post by bestofour on Jun 7, 2020 20:27:42 GMT -5
Just walked outside to put out more egg shells around my little sprouted seedling and this guy is using the shells as a stepping stool.
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Post by carolyn on Jun 7, 2020 21:08:07 GMT -5
crush them a little bit finer or use diotamecious earth around them instead.
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Post by bestofour on Jun 7, 2020 22:37:30 GMT -5
They are very crushed leading up to that pot. I have them inside the pot too. Last night I saw a bigger one in the middle of the walkway and killed it. Guess he didn't want to chance getting closer to the pot. Walking in and out today I noticed some of the shells had been kicked around so I was going to add more and thankfully caught this guy.
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Post by september on Jun 7, 2020 23:16:02 GMT -5
I think you just helped prove this -
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Post by carolyn on Jun 8, 2020 6:42:20 GMT -5
I use slug bait. I have no use competing for my plants. I have never used eggshells for anything other than adding compost to the pile.
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Post by brownrexx on Jun 8, 2020 7:22:48 GMT -5
Wow, your slugs are BIG. That is probably 10 times the size of my slugs. I rinse my egg shells and let them dry. When I have a lot of them I cover them with a rolling pin. I always felt like it worked on my cabbage seedlings but I have not had good luck with using them on the bean row.
I use Sluggo which is an organic bait and it works.
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Post by bestofour on Jun 8, 2020 8:51:04 GMT -5
Last night I put a ring of salt around that little pot and this morning there are at least 30 dead slugs of various sizes and one tiny snail. That pot is sitting on the brick. I put the Sluggo in the planted are where the dirt is thinking it would keep the slugs from coming to the brick but it doesn't seem to be stopping them.
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Post by bestofour on Jun 8, 2020 8:58:03 GMT -5
I think you just helped prove this -
Well isn't that just interesting. Our back walkway has been a mess with crushed egg shells
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Post by brownrexx on Jun 8, 2020 9:01:43 GMT -5
I put a ring of salt around that little pot Be careful using salt on brick. It can deteriorate the bricks. I have heard that sand works but I have no personal experience with it.
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Post by paquebot on Jun 8, 2020 9:23:16 GMT -5
If sand is used, it must remain dry and be silica sand. That has sharp edges.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by paulf on Jun 8, 2020 10:42:18 GMT -5
My father used to put beer in a jar lid to use as slug traps when we lived in Oregon and slugs were a major problem (for him anyway).
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jun 8, 2020 16:27:19 GMT -5
brownrexx, I get those big slugs, too: (That pic is from 2012...that's my youngest son, who was 3 at the time.)
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Post by brownrexx on Jun 8, 2020 17:08:32 GMT -5
Euuuu gross. That looks like a leech to me and I am really creeped out by those!
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Post by bestofour on Jun 8, 2020 20:05:22 GMT -5
Laura_in_FL, such a cute picture. Boys will touch anything.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jun 9, 2020 10:33:23 GMT -5
brownrexx, it's definitely a slug. You just can't see the antennae well in the picture - you can see a hint of one up near his wrist. And don't worry - we washed his hands afterwards. Thanks, bestofour! It's one of my favorite pics. He had actually been nervous about touching it, but I held it first and showed him it was safe. Speaking of which... Some boys will touch anything. Others...well...the other day we had a BIG bullfrog in the pool. My 15 year old netted it out and put it out of the net for a picture. Then he was trying to get it back into the net to carry it outside the back fence (so it could make its way back to the ditch behind our house). He was having trouble getting the frog back in the net without using his hands. I told him to just pick it up, but he wouldn't do that. Finally I got frustrated watching him and told him to move the net out of the way. I just reached down and scooped it up. Oh, then his ego kicked in - he wasn't going to be afraid to touch the frog now that Mom had picked it up. "Let me hold it!" So he did, and then he carried it to the fence. Luckily it didn't pee on him - he would have freaked out.
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Post by brownrexx on Jun 9, 2020 11:45:30 GMT -5
brownrexx, it's definitely a slug. You just can't see the antennae well in the picture Oh, I believe you. It's just that I have never seen such a big slug around here. It just reminds me of leeches that I have seen and if one of those sucked onto me I would freak out!
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jun 9, 2020 15:00:04 GMT -5
Funny, I have never seen a leech, even when I was a kid and we swam in the freshwater lakes. But I know they are around here.
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Post by brownrexx on Jun 9, 2020 15:38:47 GMT -5
Laura_in_FL, I have only seen them in pictures, thankfully.
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Post by bestofour on Jun 10, 2020 8:39:57 GMT -5
You guys should watch an old movie, The African Queen, with Humphrey Bogart. At one point he gets leeches all over him. Grossed him totally out. Grossed we out too. I'm still fighting the slug problem. The rain isn't supposed to affect Sluggo so my yard must be infested in epic proportions.
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Post by september on Jun 10, 2020 15:25:36 GMT -5
Funny, I have never seen a leech, even when I was a kid and we swam in the freshwater lakes. But I know they are around here. There are many kinds of leeches, the majority are not bloodsuckers. Some are the larger brown ones you see swimming by in lakes called horse leeches, harmless and don't grab onto mammals (not even horses!) Then there are the small black bloodsuckers, and I've had a couple on over the years. Only once in our lake, and once in a very clear lake down by the Twin Cities called Square Lake, scuba divers now like to use it for training. You can't feel it when the bloodsuckers attach and they really don't want to let go when you try to pull them off!
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lisaann
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Post by lisaann on Jun 13, 2020 18:15:44 GMT -5
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Post by bestofour on Jun 13, 2020 20:43:42 GMT -5
lisaann, I haven't but the new slug bait seems to have worked although we haven't had rain in the last few days.
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Post by coppice on Jun 14, 2020 2:35:11 GMT -5
A 50-50 mix of water and common ammonia in a spray bottle has been my go-to for slugs for many years. The slugs melt and expire in the most satisfying way.
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Post by carolyn on Jun 14, 2020 5:42:05 GMT -5
lisaann.. not me. I have too much ground to cover to consider them. I don't container garden either. for me its slugbait.
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Post by brownrexx on Jun 15, 2020 8:01:24 GMT -5
I haven't but the new slug bait seems to have worked although we haven't had rain in the last few days. I put slug bait around my beans and it was all gone by the next day. I thought that it must have dissolved in the light rain so I spread more bait and then watered the next day and the bait did not dissolve. I guess that the first bait must have been EATEN but he slugs! I must have millions of them. Mine are really small, like 1/4" or so. I have rarely even seen them. They come out at night and chew round holes in my bean leaves. The beans have finally started growing since I started using the bait.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jun 15, 2020 9:44:26 GMT -5
lisaann, I have never tried the copper, either.
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