deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
It's worth a shot.
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It's worth a shot.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
A day of sunshine and biblical-grade showers here chez Casa Reynard.
I slept well. Spent the morning writing. After a fine lunch of a salami & cheese sandwich, a nectarine, a pear and twoI then scanned some stuff that needed scanning. After, I knocked more ice out of the freezer (I think that's about as much as I can remove at the moment), re-filled fruit bowls etc, and then I was forced to go out on Slug Patrol.
I removed THIRTY NINE slugs lurking in the vicinity of my planters and pots within the space of about ten minutes - including catching two in the act of climbing up the wood bins to reach the herb pots, strawberries and the assorted small plants and seedlings, and one in the act of eating an almost-ripe strawberry.
Needless to say, those thirty nine slugs will not be bothering my plants any further.
I have also been booked to steward at the Supreme.
I presume you know to smear grease for couple of inches round the outside diameter of your tubs and pots. Stops slugs and snails getting beyond the greasy bit.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
It's the weekend 😺
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I have just removed another one hundred and forty eight slugs.
The parental found two more as well.
So that's a grand total of 189 slugs.
The parental found two more as well.
So that's a grand total of 189 slugs.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I shall be doing that in the morning. I have a tube of axle grease that'll do nicely.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Time to feed the cat, and then it will be time to feed me.
Just thought, the alternative to hexi tablets are the Dragonfuel 'pots' of alcohol gel.
Wonder how long before they're banned in case folk start getting inebriated by licking the gel - ? !
classic33
Leg End Member
Banned last October.So the Govt. in their wisdom have now banned the use of Hexamine tablets. Apparently, for someone with 'some knowledge of chemistry', they could be used to make explosives. So can nitrate fertiliser; is that going to be banned on the same basis I wonder - ?
On the health side, because Hexi tablets contain formaldehyde, there is a small possible health risk if you're exposed to a lot of them or eat too many.
But as they've been around for nearly a hundred years, why has this only now come to light - ?
Mamod turned to a gel fuel instead.
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
Evening hot drink and old top of the pops another good evening
Apparently it did rain, heavily. Completely missed it. Saved me having to water the patchfix.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Lovely supper of steamed salmon, bulgur wheat with roasted vegetables, and a beetroot salad. Followed by a pear and a peach that were both in need of eating.
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
It's possible to keep them away with copper and a battery: https://interestingengineering.com/...from-plants-with-a-9v-battery-and-copper-tape
Jenkins
Legendary Member
- Location
- Felixstowe
The chap doing the measurements for the carpet didn't turn up until nearly 13:00 which gave me a free morning to do a bit of tidying up and clearing out of a few old bits. One thing I found was an unopened pack of Minidiscs (remember them?) which I don't know why I had kept as my player broke and was thrown out at least 10 years ago. Out of interest I stuck them on Ebay and in less than 4 hours they'd been sold and were in the post to the buyer. By the time fees & postage have been accounted for I've only made a tenner, but I didn't realise there was still a market for 'old' tech.
