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wayoutwest · Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 184 Location: west clare

da dada da da da daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

it's a competition to find the bigest slug. Post your pictures here, with a ruler next to your slug - measurements of 45 feet will not be believed, for those inclined to photoshop....

the biggest one wins.
let the slug fest begin!

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greentree · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 8:34 pm Post subject:

Please - My OH thinks I'm mad enough already without me going around the garden with the digi cam taking pictures of slugs!!

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blowin · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject:

admin · Site Admin Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Posts: 227

Great idea for a bit of fun but I wonder if we should have a warning beside the topic title ---- " not to be viewed by unaccompanied townies " , or something like that Laughing

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And it will be against the rules to elongate the slugs by squishing them .

I am not sure how I feel about feeding them whole carrots , either .
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Jack · Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 71 Location: North Otago

Gidday

Bugger. I would win hands down ifin I was still up north. We have the tiger slugs there.

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wayoutwest · Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 184 Location: west clare

wow, Jack - that's some slug!

I remember the ones in north wales being huge - I mean, like six inches long, or longer. with the recent rain here I'm sure we're attracting bigger slugs.

maybe it's just that I haven't been so great at weeding this year and they have somewhere to hide...
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tringle · Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:31 pm Post subject:

All I can grow at the moment is slugs Wink

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Moonwaves · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 80 Location: Dusseldorf

[quote="tringle"]All I can grow at the moment is slugs Wink

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Me too! Although I'm getting good at snails too. Have recently discovered what snail eggs (larvae?) look like after finding a hole in the soil near my tomato plant with a load of little tiny round white things in it. Gross. Dug them out and threw them on the compost and wondered what they were. Then the next day near the plant beside that one (and we're talking now about the one plant that I've grown from seed and which is doing really well) I caught a snail snuggled in the soil - pulled it out to get rid of it and it was kind of hard to do. I think it was in the middle of laying or whatever it is they do. Loads more of those little white things. I got out as many as I could but need to keep a close on those two pots from now on.
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blowin · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:44 am Post subject: