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judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 9:28 am Post subject:

Nick Howe wrote:

Strikes me we need a recipe for slugs.

Sadly I think that even dpack couldn't come up with a good recipe.

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 9:43 am Post subject:

judith wrote:

Nick Howe wrote:

Strikes me we need a recipe for slugs.

Sadly I think that even dpack couldn't come up with a good recipe.

Hark...I hear the clatter of a gauntlet hitting the ground...

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 9:46 am Post subject:

Nick Howe wrote:

Strikes me we need a recipe for slugs.

Most slugs are only barely edible. Although I hear tell of them being dried out slowly over a fire, powdered, and turned into a porridge. Whether thats actually 'edible', or whether its even rather poisonous, I have no idea.

Blacksmith

Joined: 25 Jan 2005
Posts: 5025
Location: Berkshire

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 10:32 am Post subject:
Caps off, stand easy.............. Carrots, missing. Presumed engulfed under withy wind. Beetroot. missing. presumed captured by mares tail. We will remember them.

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 11:20 am Post subject:

Nick Howe wrote:

Strikes me we need a recipe for slugs.

If even the French wouldn't eat the things, I think we must presume that they really are inedible...

cab wrote:

... I hear tell of them being dried out slowly over a fire, powdered, and turned into a porridge. Whether thats actually 'edible', or whether its even rather poisonous, I have no idea.

Maybe someone misheard Heston Blumenthal? https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/snailporridge_74858.shtml

Even beetles don't eat them quickly. But frogs... OK, so we could go in for farming frogs for the table, and feed them on a diet of slugs...

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 11:59 am Post subject:

dougal wrote:

Maybe someone misheard Heston Blumenthal? https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/snailporridge_74858.shtml

Wrong gastropod old chap

Snails are alltogether scrummier, they're less muscly, they rely on a shell for protection. Slugs are alltogether togher and slimier. Go on, go and finger some and see

Went

Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 1:48 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

dougal wrote:

Maybe someone misheard Heston Blumenthal? https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/snailporridge_74858.shtml

Wrong gastropod old chap

Snails are alltogether scrummier, they're less muscly, they rely on a shell for protection. Slugs are alltogether togher and slimier. Go on, go and finger some and see

Seems that our distant cousin ate them:

https://www.foodreference.com/html/artinsects9.html

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45678
Location: Essex

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 1:52 pm Post subject:
Something has eaten into the mesh (not wondermesh) tunnel that I was using to protect my carrots, a 15 mtr row nibble to the ground

Tittch

Joined: 17 Feb 2006
Posts: 1768
Location: Chichester

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 4:20 pm Post subject:
6 Sweet Corn plants. RIP. Fell victim to the sudden heat... We will remember them...

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Tue Jul 10, 07 9:09 pm Post subject:

Potatoes - Blight (although I'm hoping the spuds are OK as I've cut the haulms off)
Ridge cucumbers - sowed them two early and they didn't even make it into the ground
Cabbage and cauliflowers - first sowing succumbed to the heat in April
Spring onions - the dog decided to sleep in the trough that they were planted in and flattened the lot just after they germinates
Peas - bloody crows got most of the first sowing
Carrots, beetroot and parsnips - poor germination in the hot weather at the beginning of spring

I thought things were going well here, but writing that lot down has just depressed me.

Aqui

Joined: 11 Jul 2007
Posts: 19
Location: somewhere between London and Essex

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 07 12:32 pm Post subject:

spuds. Still sitting in their chitting boxes on the spare room window sill. Oops. Was expecting Baby Aqui to arrive a little later than he did and then for it not to take 2 months before I could spend more than 10 mins not sitting down! Will they keep for next year? The 4 that I did manage to plant either dried out (lack of water earlier in the summer - remember that when it wasn't raining?) or eaten by the slimey b*ggers.

Everything else didn't happen this year - seeds still in packets. Oh well - next year!

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45678
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 07 12:34 pm Post subject:

Aqui wrote:

Will they keep for next year?

Nope, but you might still be able to plant em now.

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 07 1:35 pm Post subject:
I'd whack them in now. With any luck, you'll have missed the dreaded blight that's affected everyone else, and have a worthwhile crop still. Won't be huge, but will be better than nothing, that's for sure.

Karena

Joined: 10 Mar 2007
Posts: 4
Location: Leeds and Haute Vienne

Posted: Wed Jul 11, 07 2:50 pm Post subject:
Our roll of honour potatoes blight tomatoes blight salad and pak choi scoffed by chickens melons scoffed by slugs runner beans no sign may of deserted the thin green line that's left french beans sweet corn peas 1 cucumber carrots onions swede cabbages

Jenna

Joined: 30 Sep 2005
Posts: 263
Location: Away with the fairies

Posted: Thu Jul 12, 07 9:09 am Post subject:
Sweetcorn. Three lots, first two scoffed by mice within twelve hours of sowing, third lot in the bath failed to germinate in sympathy for their lost brothers! Gave up, but since we haven't seen the sun here since, probably a good thing! Actually slightly concerned that we may get some blight this year, but only slightly!

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