slugs and snail eggs

[tatter]

Just a reminder and especially to newbies now is the time to be looking out for snail & slug eggs especially in sphagnum moss as they like to lay in moist dark places

remove or be overrun they only take about a month or so to hatch

regards

Jim

[Stu]

Yes I saw a pile on the surface of a small pot the other day (slug must have jettisoned on top rather than dig a hole).

Always seems a horrible sight for me to find a nest in any of the pots!

[Picavorus]

I've found a few too recently - horrid things, but the birds appreciate them when I throw them on the path

[North West Neps]

I drop them in my pitchers, they think they're getting osmocote pellets 

[ian]

I feed mine to the goldfish !

[MWilko86]

I find that you may not get all their eggs as slugs can lay theirs deep in the soil or at the bottom of the pots and it is tedious with the re-potting or re-planting. Luckily enough that the molluscs are all alcoholics and can't resist beer. I find that beer traps are the fool proof way to control slugs and snails. After setting traps in my planter and cloche after fresh leaf tips getting nipped last year. I've not had much of a problem since.

[starseeker]

I have been doing a torchlit check every evening for a month now, picked up at least forty now :/

[linuxman]

On 01/05/2017 at 0:05 PM, MWilko86 said:

I find that you may not get all their eggs as slugs can lay theirs deep in the soil or at the bottom of the pots and it is tedious with the re-potting or re-planting. Luckily enough that the molluscs are all alcoholics and can't resist beer. I find that beer traps are the fool proof way to control slugs and snails. After setting traps in my planter and cloche after fresh leaf tips getting nipped last year. I've not had much of a problem since.

Who can resist beer?

[MWilko86]

Resistance is futile with the weather that we've been having at late and less so when theres a refreshing golden or pale on the pumps.

[MWilko86]

Taken some pics of the beer traps that I've set up in my planter and is a use for the cheapo basic stuff from supermarkets.