- mrsgreenthumbs
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What is eating my Spinach?
I was so proud of myself for making bug repellent... alas it has not gone as planned and my poor spinach is taking the brunt of the back lash from my local insect population... So what is eating my stuff? The holes are in the leaf not from the out side in it's like something nibbled away from the middle out....
- mrsgreenthumbs
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- rainbowgardener
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Search the Forum is your friend! Type slug control into it and it comes up with three pages of listings of discussions of slugs (some of them are very entertaining tales of peoples adventures going out at night with a flashlight and collecting the slugs and disposing of them in various gross ways! )
Here's one that has links to a bunch of the threads:
https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=75351&highlight=slug+control#75351
Here's one that has links to a bunch of the threads:
https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=75351&highlight=slug+control#75351
- mrsgreenthumbs
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- gixxerific
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Now who in their right mind would go out at night with a flashlight to hunt down slugs?
You can put down sand, eggshells, DM (diatamacious earth (sp)). But picking them off whenever you see them (be that at night or not) is the best way. If you see one above ground there are several more, per, under ground.
I got them bad some of the are BIG ONES.
You can put down sand, eggshells, DM (diatamacious earth (sp)). But picking them off whenever you see them (be that at night or not) is the best way. If you see one above ground there are several more, per, under ground.
I got them bad some of the are BIG ONES.