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cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 07 8:53 am Post subject: Honoured dead crops, 2007
Pak choi. Formerly more than a dozen healthy looking plants, mysteriously disappeared at night. Suspected pincer attack from snails and pigeons. We will remember them.

alisjs

Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 1497
Location: Conwy

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 07 9:01 am Post subject:
Annoying! A snail got into my mini greenhouse and grazed on basil seedlings....it took a long flight over the hedge!

Went

Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 07 9:15 am Post subject:
Leather Jackets....evil creatures Also slugs and snail eating two comfry plants I have been trying to grow for a year now - someone said they were safe as they were bitter - try telling tough old Spanish slugs and snails that! We are winning though - sliced lemon around the base of the plant and lemon juice smeared on pots seems to work - need to refresh after rain......

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 07 9:29 am Post subject:
Salad crops are barely seeing the light of day before being slugged here - recent rain and warmth has perked the slimey creatures up no end Must order the nematodes today.....

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46381
Location: yes

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 07 11:31 am Post subject:
i have planned a campaign open beds ,kill molluscs by hand ,by trap and pellets then planting i lost lots last year ,this year the killing will be ruthless

2steps

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 07 12:17 pm Post subject:
haven't lost anything hereother than half a blackcurrant bush and that was my dog! lasy year my major problem was catipilliars on my califlowers and cabbages I have to careful about snail as my daughter loves them...

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 07 1:04 pm Post subject:
Build her some kind of impregnable snailery and keep them all in there. Then you can put her in charge of finding new pets!

2steps

Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Posts: 5349
Location: Surrey

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 07 1:25 pm Post subject:
what a brilliant idea she did have giant land snails but they died I've found snails in some odd places including her wardrobe

frewen

Joined: 08 Sep 2005
Posts: 11405

Posted: Sat Apr 28, 07 7:55 pm Post subject:
We are losing broccoli to the flea beetle Bstrd things I will kill them (somehow)

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 8:44 am Post subject:
An almond tree failed to survive the long dark winter, it's tough out there. my lettuces are fighting a rearguard action against unknown, nighttime assailants.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45709
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 8:46 am Post subject:

Frewen wrote:

We are losing broccoli to the flea beetle

B*st*rd things I will kill them (somehow)

Wondermesh is brill (for the first time in my life I have no flea beetle on me brassicas)

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45709
Location: Essex

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 07 8:47 am Post subject:
Lost all me flipping soy bean seedlings, 100 odd of 'em on a really hot day in the greenhouse

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Mon Apr 30, 07 4:24 pm Post subject:
Beetroot seedlings disappeared overnight - the only one left is a mutant with three seed leaves . Nematodes are on their way, but I don't suppose they'll be much use unless it RAINS .

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 07 12:51 pm Post subject:

First planting out of cucumber plants of the year. Missing, presumed slugged in action.

Winter squash 'nice long'. Completely vanished, presumed bird attack.

Honourable mention for my salsify crop, after strugging for a couple of months there is now a patchy row. Must have been hell down there, well done boys. Don't let the thriving scorzonera in the next row make you feel ashamed at all.

Sweet peas. All varieties except the one in the hanging baskets. Almost total anhilation, finally traced to a pair of starlings who are presumably nesting in an entirely sweet pea constructed nest.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
Posts: 19023
Location: Leeds

Posted: Mon Jun 11, 07 12:57 pm Post subject:

Salsify and scorzonera - wiped out in the trenches. They just sat there and didn't make an effort. The parsnips fought through in small groups and reinforcements were brought in to fill the gaps but the front is still thinly covered. Shallots stood proud and defiant all winter made great gains in the spring only to succumb to a biological attack when it warmed up. 90% losses but the survivors were greatly enjoyed.

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