Curly
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How do you protect your plants from pests I came across a reference about a homemade garlic spray has anyone tried making a garlic spray and if so how good is it and what does it protect your brassicas from
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Can the Man
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The only thing works for me is a net all round to keep pigeons and rabbits out.
Coffee keeps me busy until it’s acceptable to drink whiskey.
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Curly
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Thanks Can the Man but how do you control the slugs and snails
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Small chilli
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Nematodes for slimy ones. Net for everything else.
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Can the Man
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(28-05-2020, 12:26 AM)Curly Wrote: Thanks Can the Man but how do you control the slugs and snails Curly as they are netted off I sprinkle slug pellets around them, no birds or animals can get in at them. Not so many now with the warm dry weather.
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I net and use a few organic slug pellets one year I planted a spare kale in a bucket it lasted 2 days before it was stripped to a stalk. Never again.
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Greenfingers
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Blue pellets of death for slitherers. Netting for everything else. If it was allowed I would use an air gun for anything with legs or wings.....at least that would be target specific.
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My apologies in advance.
Every time I read the title of this thread, its "Protection of your brassiere".
Sorry, I'll get my coat................and the rest of my underwear.
The Moneyless Chicken says:-
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
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Netting over the kale. And since that stops the frog and the blackbirds getting at the slugs, I sprinkle a few pellets under the netting if there seem to be lots of slugs - I have those tiny black ones that are so hard to see in the soil. The dry weather seems to be keeping numbers down though. elsewhere in the garden I leave predators and pests to get on with it.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished – Lao Tzu
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Small chilli
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I got my frame built today ( about time ). I covered it with net.
I’ll get mor net for next year so I can do the other end of the bed as well.
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