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Apr 2020
5:24pm, 24 Apr 2020
3,009 posts
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jacdaw
Leopard slug, I'd say too.
Not a big problem.
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Apr 2020
5:38pm, 24 Apr 2020
15,742 posts
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Rosehip
I thought leopard slugs were more browny than green/yellow?
Looking at the ID pages I need to see what colour the next ones tentacles are!
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Apr 2020
6:02pm, 24 Apr 2020
3,012 posts
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jacdaw
Does it have yellow body slime? If so it is flavus. Colour is odd for leopard (Limax maximus), but pattern is striking for cellar (Limax flavus), although there is a spotted form.
Still don't think it is much of a pest either way! They prefer dead stuff.
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Apr 2020
6:07pm, 24 Apr 2020
15,743 posts
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Rosehip
that's ok then 
slime was clear and there was lots of it
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Apr 2020
9:53pm, 24 Apr 2020
19,658 posts
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Columba
Leopard slugs like living in compost heaps.
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Apr 2020
9:57pm, 24 Apr 2020
43,854 posts
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alpenrose
I'm sure I see slugs like that one in my compost bin.
Our council restarted garden bin collections this week so I finally got my first one of the year out.
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Apr 2020
12:01pm, 27 Apr 2020
11,649 posts
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D2
I've been earthing up my potatoes, the earlies and main crop came through at the same time despite being planted weeks apart!
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Apr 2020
1:06pm, 27 Apr 2020
15,768 posts
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Rosehip
Mine too D2
I'm having issues of having grown way too many seedlings for the amount of space I have to put them in.
I also received two lots of an order of 6 asparagus roots. I don't really have anywhere for 6, let alone 12! - they said not to send them back and I haven't been charged.
Does anyone want to see if 6 sparrowgrass roots will grow for them having been sent in the post twice? Happy to post out...
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Apr 2020
1:28pm, 27 Apr 2020
5,806 posts
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Fragile Do Not Bend
That’s tempting RH, how much space you say they’d need? I have no shortage of space, trouble is anything not earmarked for something else is currently grass.
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Apr 2020
2:15pm, 27 Apr 2020
15,769 posts
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Rosehip
They need 12 inches all around each one, I believe. They have very shallow roots and ideally need to go into somewhere with no perennial weeds. If you dug the grass up and replaced with compost/topsoil that might work.
I have a sort of raised bed planned for them, but only really room for 6 - and it's not quite there yet. Unfortunately I seem to have ground to a halt today. Need to get out and do some more before it starts raining.
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