Posted by lilipili on May 25, 2010, 7:19 pm
I have prepared a lovely vegie bed and planted some seedlings of
lettuce, kale, silverbeet and snow peas just a week ago. It's been
raining so I have sprinkled spent coffee grounds and eggshells around
the seedlings to deter the slimy slugs and snails. This seems to be
working well. Last night I found 2 lettuces uprooted and slightly
nibbled. What would be uprooting the lettuce but not touching the
other seedlings. I hope I don't get home tonight to find more
uprooting? I put the lettuce back in - they should be fine. Can anyone
assist with identifying this strange activity? I'm going to sit in
wait soon! I'm stumped. It's such a delicate lifting of the roots!
Thank you!
Posted by Jonno on May 25, 2010, 7:34 pm
Where do you live?
City bush state?
>I have prepared a lovely vegie bed and planted some seedlings of
> lettuce, kale, silverbeet and snow peas just a week ago. It's been
> raining so I have sprinkled spent coffee grounds and eggshells around
> the seedlings to deter the slimy slugs and snails. This seems to be
> working well. Last night I found 2 lettuces uprooted and slightly
> nibbled. What would be uprooting the lettuce but not touching the
> other seedlings. I hope I don't get home tonight to find more
> uprooting? I put the lettuce back in - they should be fine. Can anyone
> assist with identifying this strange activity? I'm going to sit in
> wait soon! I'm stumped. It's such a delicate lifting of the roots!
> Thank you!
Posted by lilipili on May 30, 2010, 10:05 pm
> Where do you live?
> >I have prepared a lovely vegie bed and planted some seedlings of
> > lettuce, kale, silverbeet and snow peas just a week ago. It's been
> > raining so I have sprinkled spent coffee grounds and eggshells around
> > the seedlings to deter the slimy slugs and snails. This seems to be
> > working well. Last night I found 2 lettuces uprooted and slightly
> > nibbled. What would be uprooting the lettuce but not touching the
> > other seedlings. I hope I don't get home tonight to find more
> > uprooting? I put the lettuce back in - they should be fine. Can anyone
> > assist with identifying this strange activity? I'm going to sit in
> > wait soon! I'm stumped. It's such a delicate lifting of the roots!
> > Thank you!- Hide quoted text -
> - Show quoted text -
I live on the outskirts of the city near the Hills. It happened again!
- just one lettuce, completely uprooted. But nothing touching the
silverbeet, kale or snowpeas, except slugs, that have all been hunted
down.
Posted by Anne Chambers on May 25, 2010, 8:54 pm
lilipili wrote:
> I have prepared a lovely vegie bed and planted some seedlings of
> lettuce, kale, silverbeet and snow peas just a week ago. It's been
> raining so I have sprinkled spent coffee grounds and eggshells around
> the seedlings to deter the slimy slugs and snails. This seems to be
> working well. Last night I found 2 lettuces uprooted and slightly
> nibbled. What would be uprooting the lettuce but not touching the
> other seedlings. I hope I don't get home tonight to find more
> uprooting? I put the lettuce back in - they should be fine. Can anyone
> assist with identifying this strange activity? I'm going to sit in
> wait soon! I'm stumped. It's such a delicate lifting of the roots!
> Thank you!
Rabbits ?
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Anne Chambers
South Australia
anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com
Posted by terryc on May 25, 2010, 9:42 pm
On Wed, 26 May 2010 10:24:29 +0930, Anne Chambers wrote:
> Rabbits ?
You must have sick rabbits down your way. IME, any rabbit, except
extremely well fed pets, can make a young lettuce plant disappear.
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> lettuce, kale, silverbeet and snow peas just a week ago. It's been
> raining so I have sprinkled spent coffee grounds and eggshells around
> the seedlings to deter the slimy slugs and snails. This seems to be
> working well. Last night I found 2 lettuces uprooted and slightly
> nibbled. What would be uprooting the lettuce but not touching the
> other seedlings. I hope I don't get home tonight to find more
> uprooting? I put the lettuce back in - they should be fine. Can anyone
> assist with identifying this strange activity? I'm going to sit in
> wait soon! I'm stumped. It's such a delicate lifting of the roots!
> Thank you!