Animal Repellents
Even pet lovers admit certain animals and insects can be annoying at times. Our House shows you how to repel, but not kill or harm, those annoying creatures around your home. To keep slugs from snacking on your plants, wrap a length of copper ... [... more]
NineMSN OurHouse |
Bayer Advanced Garden Baysol Snail and Slug Bait
Now is the time to be planting out flowering annuals and potted colour but one of the biggest mistakes that gardeners make is they do not go using snail pellets. The snails and slugs will chew your plants up in no time if you do not get yourself ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Pamela Duncan Edwards
Pamela Duncan Edwards is the author of numerous popular picture books, including Livingstone Mouse; Roar! A Noisy Counting Book; Some Smug Slug; The Worrywarts; Clara Caterpillar; Wake-Up Kisses; Rosie's Roses; The Leprechaun's Gold; and Gigi and ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Introduced Snails in Australia
There are over 1000 species of native Australian snails and slugs. However, most of the snails and slugs we find in our gardens are not natives. Most species arrived accidently in Australia on potted plants, or stuck to packing cases, pallets and ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Marine Animals Living in Kelp Forests
Kelp forests are large underwater colonies of kelp that dominate shallow rocky reefs in temperate waters around Australia. BRYOZOANS - a group of animals, some of which are known as lace coral. NUDIBRANCH - a group of sea slugs which are usually ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Victoria Chess
Victoria Chess is the illustrator of more than 100 books for children, including Slugs by David Greenberg, Tommy at the Grocery Store by Bill Grossman, and The Scaredy Cats by Barbara Bottner. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, Ben Hoffman. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Blitzem Snail and Slug Pellets
Everyday spring brings more new growth along with it, a hunger. Actively growing plants need nourishment. Plants that have yellow leaves could either be a sign of a mineral deficiency, especially at this time of the year, or over watering could ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Blitzem Snail and Slug Pellets
Snails may be slow but they quick to find newly planted seedlings. There are a few home remedies you can try. Coffee grounds sprinkled around the seedlings or beer traps placed in the garden are pretty good at slowing them down a little. The best ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Bayer Advanced Garden Baysol Snail and Slug Bait
In the 16th century the Dutch took the tulip to Europe and it became an absolute sensation. The era was known as 'tulipomania' and Europeans have never been the same since. Tulips are seen as exotics in Australia and because all our major cities ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Garden Remedies
Snails and slugs can be very destructive to many seedlings & plants wreaking havoc in the garden, but are easily controlled with Yates Blitzem Snail & Slug Pellets. These attract snails & slugs, and once consumed, kill them with a dehydration [... more]
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