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Message 1.Â
Posted by honestGreengrass (U11104227) on Saturday, 25th September 2010
I was very surprised to see nobody had commented on last night's programme! Have we lost a lot of the regular scribes or are less people watching the programme?
I hope that last night's programme is the turning point for GW to start informing viewers of product brands. The lawn trials at the Sports Turf Research institute were excellent and showed how us specific brands were performing. Please carry on GW and start telling us all about those mystical products we buy for pest and disease control from the garden centre's!!! Are we wasting time and money or do they really work? For example, are those new biofungi we hear about doing any good and if so, lets see some tests please! How many products for controlling snails actually work since most of the ones I've tried don't!
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Message 2
Posted by rini (U2365378) on Saturday, 25th September 2010
I watched it and was annoyed about Toby's comment regarding digging up potatoes. His comment about spiked potatoes was 'you can put them on the compost'. What a waste! Don't keep them for storage; eat them within 2 weeks.
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Message 3
Posted by Barny (U13453961) on Saturday, 25th September 2010
450g "doff" blue mini pellets (1.5% Metaldehype)-
£1 from Poundland!
These work without fail, but ideally should be put down when it is dry and you have a fair expectation that it will remain dry for 24 hours or so. They actually are more effective spread very thinly as the pesky critters seem to seek 'em out.
Take no heed of the Greenie Codswallop -I have used them (or the old pure fuel tablets)since Wartime and if I go down my garden on a summer's evening, I am tripping over hedgehogs and flippin' frogs and toads are jumping around all over the place. Neither frogs,toads,birds or hedgehogs feed on slugs that have consumed meta.of that I am convinced. -
Message 4
Posted by Lowena (U14575314) on Saturday, 25th September 2010
Apparently neither hedgehogs, frogs nor birds eat dead things so if the slugs are ex slugs due to pellets the other creatures will leave them alone.
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Message 5
Posted by Trillium (U2170869) on Saturday, 25th September 2010
Barney - I must object to your promotion of metaldehyde based slug killers on the premise that the 'greenie' options are rubbish. The ones based on ferric phosphate are excellent - they kill slugs just the same and are reassuringly blue for the cynics. But have been approved for organic use as they are harmless to other wildlife, pets etc. Not my rhetoric, the packaging has the official endorsements. And for those with a little knowledge of chemistry the active ingredients are obviously iron and phosphorous which are normally present in the soil.
This is why GW should do product trials - to help overcome real misunderstandings within the gardening community about what does and does not work -
Message 6
Posted by nooj (U13729031) on Saturday, 25th September 2010
I have to agree - how many times have I seen my beloved cats come back inside - and spread their toes for a wash between them
The worst this last few years has been a few baby woodlice, and the odd ice clump in bad weather.
I doubt they would eat slug pellets, but might well swallow them when cleaning their paws -
Message 7
Posted by welshcol (U2301689) on Saturday, 25th September 2010
Do you mean Friday the 24th GW programme honestGreengrass? Shown in Wales on 25th!!!.
See
Not up to the improving standard I thought but the Winter pots bit was useful.
Slight return to the zoomy/out of focus camera work on the CK and ? garden locations.
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Message 8
Posted by honeybunny (U14617052) on Sunday, 26th September 2010
nooj may if the beloved cats where taught to use litter box and not let run loose to leave there droppings in other people gardens the cats would not lick slug pellets out of there paws. Also if cat were not running free the local auto users would not have as many loose cats, that are hit with cars every year. Also there would be so many more song birds since miss kitty would safely inside.
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Message 9
Posted by mummyduckegg (U8437139) on Sunday, 26th September 2010
Please everyone, stop using the metaldyhyde pellets, one of my cats nearly died eating them (last time I ever used them). I don't think even you cat haters would like to kill off your neighbours pets.
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Message 10
Posted by jauntycyclist (U14199772) on Monday, 27th September 2010
Great Show. Seems to have 'adulted up'. Hooray Lawns! Where's Alice?
don't know how the slug/snail topic started but no need for any kind of pellet. Just go out and kill a few and leave them overnight. In the morning kill all the others that are eating [they are cannibals] the previous dead ones and so on. You can quickly decimate a local population to a level where they hardly do any damage.
yes no pellets nor antifreeze in the fountains as it harms wildlife if you are interested in that sort of thing. if not poison away. -
Message 11
Posted by theweeshep (U13961168) on Monday, 27th September 2010
nooj may if the beloved cats where taught to use litter box and not let run loose to leave there droppings in other people gardens the cats would not lick slug pellets out of there paws. Also if cat were not running free the local auto users would not have as many loose cats, that are hit with cars every year. Also there would be so many more song birds since miss kitty would safely inside.
^^You do know cats have protection to roam by law?
I am not a cat apologist - I dislike having half rotted poo stuck under my fingers nails from digging in a bed as much as the next person.
Of course, that cat licking your slug pellets off it's feet may never use your beds to mess in.... That's the problem with something as indiscriminating as pellets.
Do you know the %age of songbirds killed by cats per year and how many would be saved if we got rid of all felines? Not as many as you'd suspect. Besides, I don't invite them into my garden so any that come in deserve to die. Sounds a bit daft, doesn't it?
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Message 12
Posted by Lowena (U14575314) on Monday, 27th September 2010
I use the pellets which say "harmless to pets". They are very effective against s and s
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Message 13
Posted by nooj (U13729031) on Monday, 27th September 2010
Weesheep - don't get drawn in - that is a particular poster with a considerable chip on his shoulder.
Any way that sensible people can control pests and protecttheir plants is ok by me - just not the dangerous ones. -
Message 14
Posted by darren p (U8518743) on Monday, 27th September 2010
hmmm...
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Message 15
Posted by openfields (U14628318) on Tuesday, 28th September 2010
I quite agree, cut out what is not nice & eat the rest straight away or put into water for a day or so to stop browning. I was also surprised to see Toby throw potatoes into the compost heap. I always thought they would reshoot?? Same with spud peelings.
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Message 16
Posted by Trillium (U2170869) on Tuesday, 28th September 2010
I wonder how they managed to get their Cannas to set seed? I've never managed it in Cheshire - perhaps I didn't get them big enough before putting them out.
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Message 17
Posted by hereisabee (U2342191) on Tuesday, 28th September 2010
Yes I once grew Cannas in situ, by the time they came into flower the next year it was October and were frosted. So you really need a heated greenhouse to get them going early, seed or no seed.
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