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20-04-2012, 04:51 PM
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Gardeners - Any ideas??

Just noticed one of my pots has this clear jelly like stuff all over the top of the soil?? It's sat on top of a low fence/railing around the patio area and none of my other pots have any on!!

I've taken a piccie and the shiny bits are the jelly like lumps on it!


Any ideas anyone???
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20-04-2012, 04:57 PM
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could be snail or slugs eggs.
google and look at images , see if they match.
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20-04-2012, 04:59 PM
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could be water retaining gel which has come to the top of the pot
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20-04-2012, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by kobi View Post
could be water retaining gel which has come to the top of the pot

Looks like water retaining gel to me too.
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20-04-2012, 05:57 PM
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Yep it looks like water retaining gel as well.
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20-04-2012, 08:29 PM
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Thanks - one more quick question . . . .

Where the bl**dy hell's it come from???? I haven't put it in and no other pot that I've filled with the same compost has any??
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20-04-2012, 08:54 PM
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I get that with my trailing nasturtiums

I always thought that it was in the compost, but they have always thrived. Mind you, nasturtiums will grow in anything
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20-04-2012, 08:58 PM
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some sort of fungus, not really a worry
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24-04-2012, 05:40 PM
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I'd say fungus too, there was a thing on the Scottish news last year about it, although it was on the ground not in pots.
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