terrible slug damage

[ladbrokesMember]

with all this continued wet weather my planted out lettuce, peas and calabrese is taking a hammering from slugs. are others suffering the same fate.

[SpadelessAdeParticipant]

Hi Ladbrokes, sorry to hear about your poor lettuces etc, I can well understand how you must feel.

I do find mine seem to be well protected by using Slug Gone, which I surround every lettuce, row of peas etc with, and so far nothing has been attacked at all. Slug Gone is made from sheeps wool and dried into pellets, so is very easy to use, and forms a mat when it’s been rained on or watered, which the slugs won’t cross as apparently it irritates them to move over it, so they don’t!

I’d highly recommend it anyway, if you’re interested. I bought mine online quite easily – I just googled it.

[DaucusMember]

Hello it’s terrible here too – they are even coming inside our house to eat seedlings! Something that has worked brilliantly as a deterrent is sheeps wool, used either as collars for individual plants or alongside a whole bed, it doesn’t have to be thick. Mine is shoddy – the waste stuff you wouldn’t want to spin with, so it’s easy to get hold of if you have a spinning/weaving guild local to you.

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