Posted: Wed Jun 29, 16 12:09 am Post subject: the slimey hoard part ....umm ..many
i just slaughtered about 60 leopard slugs and evicted 3 snails
compared to the numbers pre nematodes that was a very light "crop" even though i havn't added more todes for 3 years.
i recon that once established the nematodes just get on with it and keep the numbers at manageable levels
most slug species are are completely absent although the little ones that only eat dead plant material are still doing their job.leopard slugs seem immune.
I squashed some more snails and disposed of another slug yesterday. The main thing is to try to get rid of hiding places for them, but as I am not the most systamatic of gardeners, I find that hard.
my issues are more stalingrad than the libyan desert ,the yard is all hiding places and not much growing space,the "landscape" makes any attempt at a dmz/mac namara line strategy equally ineffective.
tis far better than a few years ago when i regularly got a couple of hundred mixed slugs and a hundred snails at a time even though it was an every damp evening job.
i recon the todes have helped a lot
i still haven�t had a single lettuce that got above 5mm out of the soil yet
Slim
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