- Tinybu88les8
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destroyed seedlings
So Its obviously fall gardening season and I've been trying to plant cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli and mesclun. Well once the seedlings start sprouting from the ground, I get super excited.... and then I wake up the next day and they're gone and I get super sad. I didn't have this problem with my spring garden. Basically all my seedlings are gone, or totally chewed up.... the little leaves will barely be there if at all. Its like bugs just swarm that place at night...I dunno what's going on. I started some seedlings in pots with garden soil and fertilizer and they haven't been touched. Then there's the musclun ....I wanted to buy a long window pot and plant them in that but somebody told me they do better in the ground. So I sectioned off part of my garden for my greens...they are growing (and lasting longer) but they are slowing being chewed up! How am I ever gonna grow anything at this rate?! Its become almost impossible to plant directly into the soil. Whats going on?
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Type slugs or slug control into the Search the Forum feature ... there's been pages and pages written here already on this.
I agree that slugs seem most likely, but you'd be surprised what creatures have adapted to living with people in the city. I live 4 miles from downtown and my backyard has squirrels, raccoons, woodchucks, and possums as well as a variety of small rodents (shrews, voles, etc).
I agree that slugs seem most likely, but you'd be surprised what creatures have adapted to living with people in the city. I live 4 miles from downtown and my backyard has squirrels, raccoons, woodchucks, and possums as well as a variety of small rodents (shrews, voles, etc).
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Well that's true. I know for a fact mice got in my garage and ate my earliest broccoli and cauliflower seedlings (at seed leaf stage) last spring. Didn't eat any of the cabbage. But it was just that one time. Slugs, by far, did far more damage to the seedlings and young veg's in my garden.
So, have you come across my "slug count" thread yet?
So, have you come across my "slug count" thread yet?
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I don't really have room for copper mesh. My garden is only 9'x12'. What are these copper strips you speak of though? Are they made for slugs? or will any piece of copper due? something that takes up the least amount of space. My musclun has been destroyed. Theres a few sprouts still hanging in there but most of them were eaten on their first or second day above ground.
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