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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

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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.......:D

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ooo cheers for that pipples :D

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My pleasure.......:D

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

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

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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.

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

Retlaw.

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

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

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

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

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

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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:

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