Slug pellets

[watervole]

It's a personal decision as to whether you use slug pellets or not. 

I don't, but that's my choice and I won't expect you all to follow it.

However, if you do use them, don't make the mistake that the new guy on the allotment just did.

Do NOT use too many.

Use them at the recommended rate - as they are LESS effective if you use too many.  (if the smell/taste is too strong, the slugs don't eat them)

See here for more information on slug pellets and the best time to apply them.  Remember the risk to pets and wildlife.

If your young runner beans are getting eaten, try this trick. Take a plastic drink bottle and cut off the top and bottom to leave yourself with a clear plastic collar about six inches high.  Place this around the seedling and push at least an inch down into the soil. Sometimes, this is enough to deter the little blighters all on its own, but if it isn't, drop ONE slug pellet inside.

Comments

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Well, your choice, but even behind cut tags, if your output continutes to be roughly

3 gardening : 1 potentially interesting to me

then it's just using up slots on my friends list and it makes me likely to either drop you altogether or effectively mute you with filters at my end, neither of which are ideal.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

To clarify... "slots" are the things I have 50 of on my friends page before I hit the "previous posts" link. I read a lot of lj on my mobiles on the train or out and about elsewhere. The signal is often bad and takes me a long time to load a page. If the page is full of content behind cuts it's wasting spaces where there could be content I wanted to see.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I understand the problem. It's how I used to feel about Twitter feeds before I found a way of blanking them out. (I still see the header, but not the actual posting)(though in your terminology, it would still use up 'slots' if I had that problem)

I'm not quite sure what to do if a cut tag is of no use.

I have a general policy of not friending people I've never met (with a few exceptions for exceptional cases who are usually relatives of friends). Thus, filters aren't really a useful option for stuff that non-friends want to read.

I'll understand if you do decide not to read my journal - though the gardening posts will die off as the season progresses. This is the very active time of year.

I've always enjoyed reading your LARP stuff - if you'd posted it to a filter, I might never have read it and become interested.

[dumain.com (from livejournal.com)]

Suggestion: tag all your gardening posts with gardening.
Hawkida then filters you from her friends page and subscribes to
an RSS feed of your journal via something like feedrinse
http://www.feedrinse.com/ (no idea if they are any good just first site I found when googling for this sort of service).

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Max, see the reply to my reply. All gardening posts tend to be tagged 'allotment', what dumain is suggesting might be helpful.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

No, that's not really a solution for me. I have blogs I've subscribed to via RSS and I just never fire up the RSS reader. Plus that feed wouldn't include comments and if something's getting lots of comments I want to see why and I want the ability to post comments as well, *without* having to go through multiple links.

Of course, another alternative might be for you to have an actual gardening blog but it seems a bit extreme a suggestion.