Slugs

[Badshot]

Scarily absent from my rape stubbles.

 

[yellow belly]

last years dry year reduced them and this years hot weeks

I also leave rape stubbles to green up and spray off post drilling the slug spend all their effot on rape plants leaving wheat seed and seedlings alone
never treated wheat after osr with slug pellets

 

[Badshot]

last years dry year reduced them and this years hot weeks

I also leave rape stubbles to green up and spray off post drilling the slug spend all their effot on rape plants leaving wheat seed and seedlings alone
never treated wheat after osr with slug pellets

How do you get the pre em to work?
Doubt much will get to the soil .
Or is it best to apply it later on when the green has died down.

 

[Against_the_grain]

They are all here

 

[yellow belly]

How do you get the pre em to work?
Doubt much will get to the soil .
Or is it best to apply it later on when the green has died down.

in theory it should not in practice liberater and avadex with a vigorous early crop no worse than later planted crops
if i had earlier freer draining soil i would delay drilling a week or so
we do spray glyphosate plus pre em as late as we can regarding crop emergance

 

[deleted user 837354]

Scarily absent from my rape stubbles.

Beautiful cover crop.

 

[Badshot]

Beautiful cover crop.

Yeh, it's all growing rapidly.
The oats are booting already

 

[SilliamWhale]

in theory it should not in practice liberater and avadex with a vigorous early crop no worse than later planted crops
if i had earlier freer draining soil i would delay drilling a week or so
we do spray glyphosate plus pre em as late as we can regarding crop emergance

I'm exactly the same as you.

 

[Brisel]

Very few slugs here too, though a few popped up during the August rains. It has been one blessing of a dry summer though frankly I'd sooner have a slug problem than a flea beetle problem - at least we can still control the slugs!

During the June rains I had slugs crawling up to the wheat ears where osr was the previous crop, so a long wet spell will soon bring them back IMO.

 

[Case290]

There be there after next weeks rain

 

[Flat 10]

Beautiful cover crop.

If I let volunteer Osr make a lovely green manure all it does in a conventional situation on my land is dry the ground out terribly and encourage slugs that otherwise we would never see.