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Wed, Feb 26, 14 at 16:37
| I was just out in the garden and in the midst of all the aphids on the growing tips were rose slugs. They get right into the tips and you can't pick them out without taking the risk of breaking off the tip so I get them with a toothpick. Either dig them out or stab them. If you see the growing tips chewed off before a bud has had a chance to form it is slugs. I don't spray so the best thing is to check them all every morning. The aphids I flick off or I just leave them alone. |
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- Posted by jacqueline3 9CA (My Page) on Wed, Feb 26, 14 at 18:29
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| Henry, my roses in front get rose slugs every year. The tiny narrow green ones that rasp the leaves until they're big enuf to chew all the way thru and turn the leaf into lace. Thanks for the reminder. I'll do a check when the rain, yipee, stops. Hope your garden getting up to the beauty of your old one. |
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