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  • egister
    egister Posts: 1,110 Pioneering

    The green laser should help, the problem is in the inexpensive guidance system)

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  • Chris75_
    Chris75_ Online Community Member Posts: 3,994 Championing

    Not a very ethical thing to do nowadays, but you can collect them all up and place them in a bucket of salted water.

  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,806 Championing

    I give them one plant for themselves they touch the rest they get the beer our little blackbird causes more mayhem he just likes things his way however many times I put it back does make us chuckle tho

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 11,423 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    You can buy nematodes to spray on gardens that will decimate slugs and snails that get in the areas you've inoculated. Well worth the price.

    I spent most of yesterday repotting my carnivorous plants. I got everything looking lovely, then overnight got visited by blackbirds and a squirrel, so everything's been dug up. 😆

  • Santosha12
    Santosha12 Online Community Member Posts: 3,065 Championing

    How lovely @Wibbles, You must have watered them well 😊.

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 3,018 Championing

    Yes and I feed them worms - by hand - I love my Robins

  • Ash2
    Ash2 Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener

    Garden is the best place to be when you’re not up to the mark I’ve been a gardening enthusiast for many years I love seeing the garden trees growing and coming in to leafy 🥬🍁🍂🍃splendour and all the many flowers 🌷 🌺 🌼blooming including the fruit trees raspberry and strawberry plants that heralding spring with the promise of fresh fruit in summer and autumn, as you can imagine I’m at peace in my garden, but now I have to help to some of the work, but nevertheless it works for me 👍👍

  • Ash2
    Ash2 Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener

    correction’s i have to have help with some of the work

  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,262 Championing

    Oh I absolutely loved gardening

    Watching the flower s grow

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 3,018 Championing
  • egister
    egister Posts: 1,110 Pioneering
    Given the age of slugs, is it legal to offer them beer?
    
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  • michael57
    michael57 Online Community Member Posts: 1,806 Championing

    makes a teetotal old man happy knowing they wont eat my dahlias not so many around this year so far tho

  • JW77
    JW77 Online Community Member Posts: 211 Empowering


    I got the proper camera out for a change:) All growing in the front garden which is looking lush at the moment..

    Perennial Kale

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    Wildflower -

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    Close up

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    Hellebore Seed Head

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    Hedge plant close up…

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    Sneaky wallflower pushing up next to Comfrey

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    Close up of London Pride flowers

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    End of flowering Star Hyacinth

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    Forget me not

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    White Cornflower

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    Hellebore seed head

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    Blueberry flowers

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  • Amberpearl
    Amberpearl Online Community Member Posts: 3,262 Championing

    Awesome

    I have forgot me not too

  • sarah_lea12
    sarah_lea12 Online Community Member Posts: 429 Empowering

    We walk in the countryside every evening , and there has been rapeseed growing , the yellow flowers are beautiful , they have all started dying off though . We spoke to the farmer and I asked him how rapeseed is harvested , he walked over the plants and he picked off a pod and he opened it , he said another two weeks and the crop will be ready for spraying to make sure the flowers are finished , then he said in another few months they will be ready to harvest , the seeds inside the pods need to be black . I always wanted to know how they harvest rapeseed .

  • kezwals
    kezwals Online Community Member Posts: 17 Listener

    I've planted wildflowers and other flowers in my garden but I don't know which ones are weeds, and I don't want to accidentally pull up the flowers I planted. Could someone describe or show me which are weeds? Thank you

  • Wibbles
    Wibbles Online Community Member Posts: 3,018 Championing
  • kezwals
    kezwals Online Community Member Posts: 17 Listener

    The wildflowers are still seeds but my other flowers have mostly grown but I don't know which ones are weeds

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 7,193 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    @kezwals, It can be a bit difficult to tell what's a weed until they're old enough to have a few leaves on them. RHS have a page showing what common weeds look like when they're grown: Identify common weeds / RHS

    If they have grown some leaves, you could try seeing if you can download a plant identification app. There are apps where you can take a picture of the plant and it will make a good guess about what it is. It doesn't always work but sometimes it can give you a good enough idea.

    If not, you could just leave it a few more weeks to see what comes up ☺️