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Post by teasel on Apr 4, 2016 21:33:30 GMT
Has anyone actually seen newts eating slugs? As my newts have started wandering from the pond, could I move them to a part of the garden that has lots of small slugs? The small slugs are responsible for eating my snowdrop and daffodil fowers before they really had chance to bloom, and now they are starting on my bluebells  I found one ex daffodil stem with about 5 slugs on tonight, and there wasn't even any flower left! Grrrr  |
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Post by rowanberry on Apr 5, 2016 16:38:28 GMT
They are already out in force, aren't they? I don't know what to suggest, although I am hoping that the horsehair the sparrows are scattering everywhere helps to deter them a bit, (I know slugs will avoid animal hair especially.) The winter here down south wasn't harsh enough to kill them off this year, and there are already great long stripey monsters crawling about the garden.  |
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Post by ayjay on Apr 5, 2016 22:11:44 GMT
Has anyone actually seen newts eating slugs? No, but then most of my slugs are bigger than the newts.
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Post by rowanberry on Apr 7, 2016 21:36:07 GMT
They are already out in force, aren't they? I don't know what to suggest, although I am hoping that the horsehair the sparrows are scattering everywhere helps to deter them a bit, (I know slugs will avoid animal hair especially.) The winter here down south wasn't harsh enough to kill them off this year, and there are already great long stripey monsters crawling about the garden. that horsehair tip sounds good  the slugs munch my runner bean shoots down to ground level every year despite nightime excursions with a torch and jam jar, and a family member has horses, so i think i can get my hands on a supply I found out last year that chopping it up into small bits, (about 1/2 inch or less) works best- I think the little pieces are more prickly and the slugs will avoid it. I did that all around my comfrey shoots until they got large enough for the slugs to leave them alone. |
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Post by teasel on Apr 14, 2016 22:25:15 GMT
The up side to going out in the evenings with a torch to check the newts v the slugs is that I'm seeing lots of large moth caterpillers and I have more millipedes than I thought |
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I found one ex daffodil stem with about 5 slugs on tonight, and there wasn't even any flower left! Grrrr 
the slugs munch my runner bean shoots down to ground level every year