growing your own veggies

[flashy]

just checked on the spud plants and i noticed a couple of slugs in them, how do i get rid of them without naffing the plants up?

oh and here's how the plants are looking now

[pipinfort]

Remove the slugs and scatter broken egg shells round the base of the plant and around the pot, the little buggers don`t like it, it works for me anyway.......

[flashy]

ooo cheers for that pipples

[pipinfort]

Originally Posted by flashytart

ooo cheers for that pipples

My pleasure.......

[MITZY]

Flashy have you checked to see if your spuds are ready. sometimes the leaves go brown when they are

[flashy]

arent they supposed to flower before they die mitzy? i was waiting for the flowers lol

[MITZY]

Oh right just presumed they had already flowered, could be ,if there only in a pot roots getting choked, sorry cannot really help only ever grown potatoes in the ground.

[Retlaw]

If they start to grow flowers, pinch them out, then more energy will go into growing the spuds and not the flowers.

Retlaw.

Originally Posted by flashytart

arent they supposed to flower before they die mitzy? i was waiting for the flowers lol

[flashy]

ah cheers for that retlaw, i'm still awaiting the flowers to grow on them, will let you all know when they do

[magpie]

put salt on them .... then you won't need to add salt when you cook your spuds:
and the slugs will melt .......( oh dear)

[flashy]

well ive just had mi hands in the mud and i havent got any sign of any spuds yet

[Romps]

Sprinkle sand round them it has worked for my plants this year.

[flashy]

thanx Romps, i'll just head off to Blackpoo to get some

[magpie]

I planted six... got loads of green very tall: and ended up with five spuds ( and they were the ones I planted so nothing)

still all the joys of gardening.... know better next time: toms are still doing really well... but the birds had all my beetroot seeds:

[flashy]

same as me magpie, when i put my hands in earlier all i could find was the one's i had planted