just about midnight

Posted on 22 May, 2009 9 comments

Every night ,around about midnight (sounds like the start of a meat loaf song lol)Mr Hyacinth and i go out into our garden him with his head lamp on me with my little torch and we do a SLUG HUNT …....i still fall about laughing each night coz the neighbours must think we are barking mad ….

but hey we get loads and loads of them little blighters ….they are quite small at the moment ,which makes me wonder do slugs have a breeding season ? ...know nothing about them only know where they’ll be and when lol

i have a pond full of frogs and toads which helps ….zillions of tadpoles coming on very nicely …i always know when the frogs are there spawning (around march time )because my pond bubbles like a witches cauldron ( no offence to any whitches out there ) ...sadly we can no longer keep gold fish as they keep dying due to spawn blocking their gills ….so we have surrenderend the pond completely to frogs toads and newts …who knows in return they may just give me a slug free garden in return one year

Happy gardening

Hyacinth

Comments

Crazydi

You're doing all the right things Hyacinth (and Mr Hyacinth...lol), hunting them down, and encouraging frogs. I'm plagued with slugs and snails...they see my garden as the local takeaway I think :(

22 May, 2009

Sewingkilla

Oh i didn't know fish could die from spawn blocking their gills, i only have 2 fish in mine (both won at a fair by daughter!) they eat the spawn every year!!!

22 May, 2009

Angiedoherty

I feel your pain Hyacinth regards to the slugs - we have snails the size of houses (well maybe not quite) at this time of year. I've tried the pellets NO JOY trying to source one of them trap thingys - i wonder if anyone reading this has any idea what to do about these fellas.

22 May, 2009

Mookins

cackle cackle, no offense taken Hyacinth...hehe

do frogs and toads eat slugs and snails?

x x x

22 May, 2009

Sueb

Slugs... yuck ! Like frogs though. LOl. :0)

22 May, 2009

Angiedoherty

just chucked 10 over garden fence I know I'm naughty but it will save them cutting it back as their garden is a wilderness/jungle

22 May, 2009

Hyacinth

angie ....you my neighbour lol? throwing lslugs over the wall ! 17 little ones i picked of 1 hosta last night .....

23 May, 2009

Hyacinth

re the spawn killing my fish .........welllllllll i dont know if it is a cert it can kill them but i lose them every year and every year Mr H does a Post mortem kinda thing ugh and spawn is chocka in their gills ...so i assumed that was the cause of death ....so have surrendered all to the frogs ....

23 May, 2009

Sewingkilla

Oh sounds like it then, will have to watch them, they are quite big fish maybe thats why it hasn't affected them.

23 May, 2009

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