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SLUG-FREE PLANTS

Last post 01-08-2005 3:00 PM by miranda. 41 replies.

• 30/07/2005 09:42 AM	In reply to
  filippo lippi Location: Nottingham Joined on: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 297	Reply | Contact The hostas I have in pots are doing great thanks to the occasional spray of wd40 around the ouside of said pot. Most of the ones in the ground are nearly gone - eaten away. The big one out front that is far too big and has to go survived a dose of glyphosate. ------------------- Ow! My most of me!

• 30/07/2005 09:43 AM	In reply to
  filippo lippi Location: Nottingham Joined on: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 297	Reply | Contact "What about using alcohol-free beer so that there's no health risks for the birds? " I don't know for sure, but I suspect that it is the smell of the alcohol (rotting fruit and all that) which attracts the slugs ------------------- Ow! My most of me!

• 30/07/2005 09:47 AM	In reply to
  filippo lippi Location: Nottingham Joined on: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 297	Reply | Contact That telephone conversation in full "Good morning Mirken, Ken speaking." "Hello, I'd like a plain brown one and a day-glo pink one for a party I'm attending." "I'm sorry, sir, but this is Mir-KEN. We can supply you with chopped up slugs." "You disgust me." "I disgust you?" click Repeat ------------------- Ow! My most of me!

• 30/07/2005 11:38 AM	In reply to
  ken69 Location: Norfolk UK Joined on: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 405	Reply | Contact Hi filip...you said mirkin, I say Mirken. Are you upset because you're not a shareholder?

• 31/07/2005 01:17 AM	In reply to
  filippo lippi Location: Nottingham Joined on: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 297	Reply | Contact I'm going to set up a rival minced slug/bird feed company and call it "Pubic Wigs." Can't fail ------------------- Ow! My most of me!

• 31/07/2005 08:51 AM	In reply to
  ken69 Location: Norfolk UK Joined on: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 405	Reply | Contact Competition..bring it on...bring it on..then Mirken will be The Original Gastronomic Gastropod Bird Food....then we shall supply the Royal Estates for free and get to be By Royal Appointment .[:)])))

• 31/07/2005 10:09 AM	In reply to
  miranda Location: Oxfordshire Joined on: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 2,977	Reply | Contact Hmm, having looked at urbandictionary.com, an adjustment of the company name could be in order, Ken. We could just transpose the syllables - Kenmir. Other'n that, the Royal Appointment bit sounds great.

• 31/07/2005 10:12 AM	In reply to
  miranda Location: Oxfordshire Joined on: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 2,977	Reply | Contact Hope the Mods don't get huffy about this...

• 31/07/2005 05:05 PM	In reply to
  ken69 Location: Norfolk UK Joined on: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 405	Reply | Contact O.K....as long as Ken Muir doesn't mind... our total posts have stuck...

• 31/07/2005 08:43 PM	In reply to
  anthemis Location: Joined on: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 317	Reply | Contact I'm feeling left out of this one! Can you add something to the recipe to make this slug-based bird food lethal to pigeons otherwise they will be even fatter and more of a nuisance!

• 01/08/2005 11:10 AM	In reply to
  ken69 Location: Norfolk UK Joined on: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 405	Reply | Contact Tricky that one, Ant., we will probably need research finance..I'll write for a grant from the EU...then we'll need a swiss roll account to hide the profits.

• 01/08/2005 03:00 PM	In reply to
  miranda Location: Oxfordshire Joined on: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 2,977	Reply | Contact Rather than adding a pigeon-lethal ingredient, we could expand our range and offer pigeon-proof feeders. They'd probably be very similar to squirrel-proof ones, of course, but with a different name on them. Hmm, Ken Muir. Have to think about that one, Ken.