Dinner is served ; )

how have you balanced those on??? be fun watching them try!!!!

Its a piece of sellotape with slug pellets and wrapped around : )

thats funny!!!!!

i can imagine slugs and snails on an assault course through the polytunnel ~ avoiding the sellotape!!!!

Hope it works for you Stevie...a great bit of ingenuity if it does.

you could market that!!!! taped pellets? go easily round the top of pots etc!!!

I'll check directly below where they are in the morning, seems a bit of a shame if they climbed all that way only to fall off in the end but...

have you got a bucket of beer or salt ready to catch them??

C´est la vie, Steve :)

That's ingenious;but won't they eat the passion fruit first before they get to the pellets? Or am I beimg stupid?

only if they can jump i reckon tuesday bear!!!

Oh yes, I see now!! I seem to be losing brain cells at an alarming rate these days.

you never know with slugs though do you? stevie will have to put a camera in there to find out ????

bit scary isnt it ~ i didnt have many brain cells to start with.

Oooh, YES. Let's track the little Blighters while we sleep and get one step ahead of them. By which I mean let Stevie do it!

Its weird they must be able to smell fruits. I left my window open the other day just for 10 mins and a huge slug came in and made a run for some tomatoes on the windowsill, just caught it in time.
By the same reasoning they come along the vine and then onto the fruit.

Update - yes its actually worked well. On the other side (where I had a couple of small fruits go) I found three small slugs on the floor direct below the fruit, dead or dying : )

thats fabulous news

bit worried about the slug who made a run for it though ~ i have enough trouble catching the very slow moving slugs that come in my garden ~ if they start running i will never catch them ~ on the other hand, maybe they will run elsewhere and not my garden????

Its amazing cus you can have a real good look in all the growth, catch the occasional big one but the small ones are hard to find..but they're there..

some of them are tiny ~ but i dont reckon it takes them long to get to full [snake] size!!!!! BEWARE

i think you are right about them smelling the fruit ~ someone should do some research and find out what smell it is they go after????