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Comments (24)In Netherlands you probably have Neudorff's Ferramol available, and it's worth trying again in my opinion. It's much the same stuff as Sluggo. It works very well against all sort of snails without shell. The ones with shell tend not to spend time enough on the ground to attract them. It does help to pick them. Check dailias daily, the are slug magnets. A piece of honey or canatalupe melon is really (!!!) effective too, if you have time to check now and then and pick them. Iron sulphate and picking really helps, and pretty fast too. Withing a short week I can go from mass invation and picking about 100 a night to hardly find any. This is what I do, and it works very well here. Ferramol has been around for ages and does well in tests. There's the nematodes you water into the ground, some regard these as the most effective in the long run, but you haveI to keep it up for a couple of years. Best of luck with the slugs. It doesn't have to take a long time for you to notice major improvement :-)...See MoreHelp with slugs, etc. eating seedlings...
Comments (14)Slugs are a problem for me only in spring, right when I'm planting out my babies and the soil is still moist. Our summers are usually too dry for slugs to be around. We don't eat enough eggs, but I do crush any shells I use and throw them into my beds. Tiffy has been telling me about her ammonia for years but I have trouble dumping that foul-smelling chemical into my organic soil. Makes me cringe. Beer gets pricey to place in all my beds every day and I don't want to smell stale beer in my gardens either. I want to smell flowers, fresh clean dirt, not ammonia or stale beer. And I like beer a lot, probably resent sharing with those slimy boogers. Boards work but take lots of time and boards to go around and squish every individual slug every morning and night. Won't use most chemical pesticides, either, that might harm my armies of worms and other good bugs. I've been happy with iron phosphate. I try to apply it 2 or 3 times before planting out in spring and have had truly impressive results with it. It's sold under many brand names (Sluggo, Escar-go, Slug Magic....), isn't toxic to worms, doesn't stink. It breaks down in the soil to iron. Lasts 3 weeks even if it rains. Works well even when applied very sparingly and one package treats all my beds for the year. I applied it a few days ago in my front bed. It's supposed to be a beautiful day today so I hope to treat the rest today. Karen...See MoreHelp!!!! Slugs infesting my flowerbed
Comments (30)Mary and Brandon, I have to agree with both of you. Mary, I can understand your love of gardening, and don't want to take the love out of it to make it science. I am a gardener too, but I used to be a scientist, but then I guess there's never a "used to be" - I always will be a scientist whether or not that's what I do for a living. When I was working at it I was a botanist and worked in several different labs, both at universities for scientists on faculty and at medical centers for doctors/medical school professors. I used to be the one doing those studies, and like Brandon, I firmly believe in them. The journals where my work was published are very careful and have other scientists review the papers before they are accepted for publication. I remember one time when I observed something and repeated the experiment over and over always with the same result- like you said, Mary, - seeing is believing. I spent mind-boggling hours and hours, days and days, on the microscope counting and measuring to get sufficient numbers to be able to run statistics on. We called in the professor who taught the university Biometry course (biometry = the science of using statistics in life sciences). She worked on the numbers for a couple of weeks then told us she couldn't back up our findings. There was some missing data we had no way of obtaining. We were so disappointed, and that study was never published. I suppose we could have bent the rules as Mary said she observed, but we were ethical and just kept of working trying to fill in the blanks so we could eventually report our findings. Yes, there are disreputable people who publish studies that are questionable. Some have actually "padded their data" and reported findings that were false. Some of those people have been caught too and have lost their jobs and reputations! I still believe what I observed is true, but nobody in the scientific community will ever hear about it because my boss and I had more integrity than the people Mary described. A few posts back I mentioned a guy in Memphis who did an experiment with coffee grounds in his garden. If I had said he did a study that included statistics, Mary, would you have believed what he observed? Scientists actually DO garden and get dirt under their nails and mud on their gloves.Alan Armitage and Michael Dirr (you are probably familiar with those names) established studies at the University of Georgia on garden plants. Those studies find varieties that are best suited for our Southeastern US hot, humid, climate. Please check the link below that describes that they started and how it effects our gardening. You have to believe those "studies". Your gardens probably include some of those plants Drs. Armitage and Dirr found to be ideal for us to grow. I know I check the The Gardens at UGA to learn about new plants that can be counted on to grow well for me because they're suited for out climate and the UGA studies prove it. Looking at the results of those studies saves me a lot of money and time too. Time I can be enjoying my garden instead of worrying about this and that plant that I never should have planted in the first place. I hope to still be digging in the dirt when I'm in my 80's and 90's. Maybe by then some scientist will have come up with a foolproof way to eradicate slugs from our gardens....See MoreDesperately need neutral to go with blues and greens
Comments (18)Just wanted to update-- I am liking the Quietude more and more. I thought maybe it was too gray and I should have gone with Wythe Blue, which is a bit more saturated. Then I changed out my lightbulbs to Sylvania Halogena and now the gray is much less and the blue-green is coming out much more. Since I have been getting home from work late every night this week, I still haven't finished getting the room back into shape (rehanging drapes, pics, etc.). I bet it will look even better when I do that this weekend. I'll also get to see how it looks with the sunlight coming through the windows during the day. I need to find some new artwork to hang in the room. I originally thought I wanted to go with subdued art in mostly white, but now I'm thinking I like the idea of bringing in some bright reds and oranges to complement the blue. In a magazine (maybe Domino) about a year ago, they showed Miles Redd's apt. He had a large piece of art that was a white canvas with an orange-y red "splatter" that was created from that little machine called a Spirograph I believe that little kids use to make art. It was really cool looking and would be perfect for my room. Wish I knew where to get something like that. For any of you that watched the Bravo show "Top Design", you might remember the winner, Nathan, created a beautiful piece of art by simply allowing different colors of paint to drip over the side of a canvas. I have always wanted to try this and with my millions of paint samples I could really do something cool. Maybe different hues of blues and greens with a little black in the background and one big bright orange, red or yellow stripe. I also would love to get one of those lamps that have what I call that candy red or orange glossy finish in the "genie bottle" shape with a simple drum shade. I am getting excited! As of now, my Kandinsky print (the color study of the different concentric circles) in a thick black frame is looking great against the walls. I have also noticed that placing a true blue color against the walls makes them appear to be more strongly aqua as the green undertones are accentuated. I love that! I am so happy that I made a good color choice and I have now made it to the "fun" stage of decorating the room. SO GLAD I STUCK TO MY GUNS AND DIDN'T SETTLE FOR A NEUTRAL! Pics forthcoming....See Morejean001
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