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Posted
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
  • Weather Preferences: Thunder, snow, heat, sunshine...
  • Location: Beccles, Suffolk.
No, although I am rather shocked when I discover just how greedy slugs can be over night....  I mean - they eat more than I do in one sitting!

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You should do what I do...Dress-up in SAS gear and go on the attack. A 'salt' rifle in hand. <_< :)

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  • Location: Canterbury, Kent
  • Location: Canterbury, Kent

Thanks Mrs M,

when I posted this thread I didn't realise there was a gardening forum untill Stephan P pointed it out!

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  • Location: Taunton, Somerset
  • Location: Taunton, Somerset

Talking about slugs - I put a bin bag out last night and there was a chicken carcase (dead) in it. This morning the slugs had pulled the bag open and had eaten most of the chicken, bones and all.

I know it was the slugs because there were still some of them lying around, stuffed, early this morning. :):) :lol:

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  • Location: Taunton, Somerset
  • Location: Taunton, Somerset

"we were having a big clearout down the side of my drive. So this meant an end to my beloved weeds I had been growing them for a few months. I'm not sure if they is a proper name for these weeds but heres a picture of them just after they had been pulled out."

Answer - Sow Thistles (Sonchus oleraceus)

Hi WBSH

Apparently there are 24 species of slug in Britain – no wonder they’ll eat anything. (not complete chicken carcases!) :(

In my garden small black slugs start off the year by eating foxgloves and the new leaves of a variegated ivy. The larger slugs seem to come out later in the year and they love bedding plants.

One thing they don’t seem to eat is the Sow Thistle in the picture that started this thread. The books say that they grow to 1.5m – all depends on how much competition there is to reach the light. Insects don’t seem to bother with them and the only things that seem to eat Sow Thistles are tortoises. Ours scrunch their way through the leaves with great enthusiasm. We have to travel miles to find the plants for our tortoises.

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  • Location: Taunton, Somerset
  • Location: Taunton, Somerset

Isn't that what's so fantastic about a forum? :( A conversation, to be interesting, moves from item to item - as does this thread.

What are metroids - are they related to Triffids? :(:(

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  • Location: Taunton, Somerset
  • Location: Taunton, Somerset

Oh, one of those things! :(

My brother plays with them - his missus says he spends more time with them than he does with her. :( He agrees. :(

Not really my scene - PS1 and Grand Turismo 2 is about my mark. :)

Actually that also looks just like a close-up of an ant's head. Not much of a problem in my garden as I'm always out and about with my ant gun, squirting powder onto any signs of ant life. :(

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  • Location: Canterbury, Kent
  • Location: Canterbury, Kent
can iu just say how weird a conversation this is?

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Better than a conversation about bloddy Metroids!!! :wacko: :):) :lol:

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oh and by the way, what the hell is a triffid? :wacko:

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I could ask the same about metroids, sounds like medication for your ass...

A triffid is a plant, but not a real plant, The Day of the Triffids was made in 1963, adn was aout these seeds which fell to earth by a meteor and then started planting themselves and attacking people... quite funny if you ever get the change to watch it :)

One of those films which was a horror movie back then, but a comedy now :lol:

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  • Location: Taunton, Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, thunder, strong winds
  • Location: Taunton, Somerset
bloody things ate some of my panseys  :)

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Another thing slugs seem to like is my sunflowers... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :wacko:

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  • Location: Taunton, Somerset
  • Location: Taunton, Somerset
I could ask the same about metroids, sounds like medication for your ass...

A triffid is a plant, but not a real plant, The Day of the Triffids was made in 1963, adn was aout these seeds which fell to earth by a meteor and then started planting themselves and attacking people... quite funny if you ever get the change to watch it :)

One of those films which was a horror movie back then, but a comedy now :wacko:

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Good evening Sir S

Back in 1963, when the film first came out it wasn't all that shocking - but it wasn't bad - I know, 'cos I saw it. :lol:

Now, as you say, it would come across as something of a comedy.

However, I reckon that the Triffid story would stand up ok with today's modern graphics and special effects.

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  • Location: Canterbury, Kent
  • Location: Canterbury, Kent
Better than a conversation about bloddy Metroids!!!  :wacko:   :)   :)   :lol:

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Man I should think before I type! lol

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  • Location: Barnsley, England
  • Location: Barnsley, England

well I'm proud to say that I removed a 6 foot thistle from my garden today.

I must have wonderful green fingers to produce something like that.

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well I'm proud to say that I removed a 6 foot thistle from my garden today.

I must have wonderful green fingers to produce something like that.

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If Scotland finds out you uprooted a thistle they'll throw cabers at you :)

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