How to kill ?
Question:garden slugs.
not the beer in the dish (let them drown ) or pick them off with your hands route
anyone try sprinkling D Earth with any success?
anyone have any ideas for slug proof pretty flowers I can plant ?
Answers:
The only way to "slug-proof" a plant is to feed it a systemic insecticide - usually coupled with fertilizer - that literally turns the entire plant poisonous. It works, but that makes the plant toxic to all things that eat it...including kids, pets, birds, beneficial insects, etc. It also smells weird.
Diatomaceous earth, sometimes sold as the product "Concern" creates a barrier over which slimy creatures, ants, and beetles will not cross, so, yes D-earth works. It is non-toxic, unless you inhale a huge quantity of it.
Putting a copper wrap around the base of any plant will discourage snails and slugs. They won't climb up and over anything made of copper, but it won't kill them.
Salt repels but unless you salt them yourself, it won't kill them. And, salt is bad for the soil and, therefore, the plants.
I'm not a huge fan of the beer solution myself, but it does get some of them. It often misses smaller slugs, which can do a lot of damage. Also, wild animals and pets will drink the beer.
Hope that helps.
Maybe try some Marigolds?
There are slug proof flowers???
DE might work, but realize they slugs make their own slime to move around and may just slime right over the DE so it never affects them.
Drying out your garden helps, that is fewer plants, no groundcovers or low plants. Boring but it does reduce the buggers' numbers.
Since the eggs can remain for seasons as well as the adults.all wrapped up in their shell waiting for moisture, you'd have to have a Biblical drought to eliminate the eating machines.
If you aren't willing to use the baits which really do cut down the number, then consider the predator snails.Decollette..or something like that. Problem is once they eat all the brown garden snails, then they start eating your plants.
you can kill slugs by using salt. use regular everyday salt. just pore it over the slugs, and they will wither away and sorta melt. if the slugs are in the dirt, then you can use salt, but i wouldnt use the salt on the slugs that are actually on the flower.
try marigolds for a border and the safest way to deter slugs is a copper barrier, even the safest of slug baits are chemical based and can cause harm to pets
there are some slug repelents out there we applied some today they do work ,but have to be reapplied. the beer does work! What a waste of good beer but it okay . Try some plants they are not atracked to
i would say the beer slug traps...i don't know about the D Earth stuff..This is a hard question I will have to watch it and use the best answer with my own flower garden :)
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