General Chat

snails & slugs

leave some beer in a bottle, lie the bottle on its side in the garden.

snails & slugs love beer........ they'll crawl into the bottle, get drunk and can't get out again. They drown in the beer.

Safer for your pets than using snail bait.

Don,t move the roses yet, wrong time to do so,**M**.

Mads, you might find Roundup Root Killer effective on the lavender. Not used by organic gardeners, but it is biodegradeable.

I would keep attacking the lavender rather than risk moving the roses.

Hi Ann sorry it took so long to answer but i got called in to work, now i cant sleep,
They are about 3ft away from eachother, think i might have to persevere and just keep digging, i'll probably hit Australia at this rate lol

Either that or move the Roses but that worries me, they were given to me by a dear friend and am worried they will die, I know nothing about gardening, but this is grating on my very last nerve x

Too much information :-D

i am going to have a nice torch lite slug and snail hun in the rain :-D

Gwyn, I think the plant you queried might be Gladiolus communis byzantinus. I have just been out in my garden to tie up plants that have been blown over in the wind (grr!) and that is one of them. Absolutely beautiful (when they're not horizontal!) An early flowering variety of Gladiolus and the only one that is allowed in my garden - sorry Dame Edna :-D

Are the three close together? Could it be regrowing from one of the other two not the one you have pulled up? Other than that I think the only thing is to keep digging it up and hope you get all the bits of roots eventually.

Can anyone help please???

I got three lavender bushes, 2 i want to keep, i have dug the 3rd one up but it keeps regrowing, im sure i got the root out, but it comes back, help please???

Im no gardener, but it bigger than my roses, which i love x

Nudged for Mersey and Island.
LOLOL

Julia in Derbyshire

Nudged for Mersey and Island.
LOLOL

Julia in Derbyshire

Never heard of that one Gwyn.

Joy that sounds great.
Keep watching for those slugs.
Do broken egg shells help keep them away or is that a myth?

Amazing what a bit of focusing the memory can do.
I remembered that the Cypriot women used to collect flowers wild from the fields and by playing on Google I think maybe the flower is a sword lily.

http://ourfrenchgarden.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/gladiolus-byzantinus.html

Gwyn

Not crocosma is it Gwyn.


Joy sounds good. My flower baskets are doing really well, all in full flower, courgettes I had to replant when we came back from Tenerife, also had to plant a few more French beans thatw ere slugged while we were away, they are coming through now. Carrots are doing well in the container, spring onions not so well. Spinach looks Ok and we have been cutting salad leaves for 2 weeks now. Raspberries are ripening too.

my broadbeans are in full flower still planting some to continue my crop all summer
my pumkins doing well salad stuffs doing ok
and my tomatoes are starting to flower in my hanging baskets

and my flower baskets are starting to flower to

so i am well happy :-D :-D

i have been doing a torchlite slug hunt at night when it rains :-P

Difficult without seeing a picture Gwyn. :-)

I'll go and look at Google Ann.

The montbretia I know is a later flowering plant and looks a bit more like a freesia flower, although taller.
Might be same family though.
I'll go and see >>>>>>>>>>>

Gwyn

Is it monbretia Gwyn?

May I pick your brains please?
I'm looking for the name of a flower. I thought I had it written down, but .......

The plant is in flower now, here in the south and looks like a thin gladioli.It is about the same height and has similar flower formation and placing, but not so large. I don't know if they come in many colours, but magenta seems to be the 'norm'.
I think they multiply once they like a bed, as I see some gardens have a real show of colour in successive years.
Any help with a name please?

Gwyn