Slugs and snails solution?
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pour salt on them and watch...sometimes you can even hear them screaming
Nuke 'em...nuke 'em all.
throw salt on them...they die...mwhahahaha
oranges and tubs of beer! did you know that every garden has a round a thousand slugs and snails?
Dig a small hole in the ground big enough to fit a pint glass into. Fill it full with cider, the slugs and snails are attracted to the smell and fall in.
Put some small Saucers on the Ground where You see them, and pour in some Beer. they will crawl onto the Saucers, Drink their Fill, and Die happy !
You can buy 'Slug & Snail' pellets from any garden centre, supermarkets or DIY stores. Sprinkle them sparsely around plants and in flower pots and the slugs and snails will meet their end!
The solution is 'slug pellets' which you can get from your nearest garden centre.
The pellets kill slugs and snails, who otherwise will eat your lettuces.
This year I have a pair of thrushes nesting in my garden. They are feeding their young with most of the slugs and snails, so I'm not putting down slug pellets this year.
If you've got a caterpillar problem in your garden, try and attract a couple of great **** to nest and have young. According to the BBC a pair of great **** will feed their young with about 25,000 caterpillars. These birds lay all their eggs in one basket, about a dozen, so feeding the new born baby birds is a full time labour intensive occupation.
Magpies and crows etc also eat just about anything, including slugs and snails. My magpies, a raucous mob of six, eat everything and anything and boss the place about.
Hmmm. You got the same problem.
There's the commercial, chemical solution that is slug pellets. I don't like them as well. Those blue stuff all over the flower beds is almost as bad as these pests.
Some of the chemical-free solutions are not easy to implement but if you can, they will work to a degree. E.g. spread wood chips, gravel, egg shells round your plants. Set up beer traps (not too effective in recent survey of a magazine).
There is a very effective, chemical-free way, involving ringing the bed with copper and zinc-coated cables. When the mollusc crawls over them an electric current is set up which gives them a shock and wards them off. Doesn't kill them but they might go away.
I have resigned to them eating my plants. Crush them when you see them and makes friends with your local black birds who will eat them if they are visible. Trouble is them come out in the dark when the birds have gone to bed.
If the affected plants are in pots, you can try pellets arond the base and/or rubbing vaseline around the edges of the pots. Copper bands are supposed to work well too.
If the plants are in open ground, you need to use methods which won't harm wildlife or pets. You can get a liquid which you dilute and apply around the plants which destroys the little bu****s in the ground, without danger to other animals. Or use a biological solution - nematodes.
All the above would be available in a good garden centre - except perhaps the vaseline!
yo gather slugs and snails use a ice cream carton and pour in half a can of cheap beer, then place in garden on a path or paved area, cover surrounding ice cream carton with segments of orange peel. wait a day or 2 and then whole thing with be covered with all the slugs and snails from your garden... then pour over salt.
this really does work. my daughters science teacher told her to try it! as she hated the fact that there were loads of them on our path after it had been raining
Slub Pellets - the facts - most are typically harmful to animals and wildlife, so beware which type that you choose!
There are some good organic/naturally healthy ways of getting rid of slugs -
1. Slug pellets containing no harmful chemicals to other wildlife, and good after rain too: There is 1 supplier of slug pellets, not made from metaldehyde, as the other slug pellets are. These new ones are safe for the environment and other animal life.
It's the 'Advanced Slug Killer' below:
http://www.growingsuccess.org.uk/range.a...
You canbuy from most good garden centres in the UK.
2. Adding natural predators to your garden, periodically. There are Nematodes that live in our wild areas - and naturally in gardens - that naturally attack our slugs. By adding a regular top-up : they die-off when there are no slugs, you'll manage to keep them under control more easily and effortlessly for you. There's a link to 1 web supplier, below.
http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pa...
http://www.greengardener.co.uk/slug.htm...
3. I recommend a stroll on a warm summer evening and pick off any stray slugs and snails - and take them far away to another natural habitat. They can return from short distance trips!
These are ways to clear slugs from your garden, you can also think about making your garden less attractive to visiting slugs and snails in the 1st place.
4 Good garden design / management - remove fallen leaves in autumn/winter (compost them), remove cool hiding spots,etc) as well as use of some extra tools, like copper tapes, which they won't crawl over and crushed particles that slugs don't like to walk-over etc.
Sprinkle slug & snail pellets sparingly, not just around the plants that you want to protect, as they typically will attract the slugs and snails towards them, and oops, you may get damaged plants.
5. The traps that others recommend are also useful. There are also commercial products that you can buy that work as traps.
So there is a good range of options that don't hurt other animals, as well as the environment. I really abvoid using cheap slug pellets, as these are so bad!
Good luck! Rob
Try putting a small pile of slug pellets away from plants being attacked (say on a path). Obviously away from pets and children. This will attract the slugs and snails away from precious plants. If you sprinkle pellets on your flower beds,do it sparingly,as it will only attract them to that part of the bed.
slug pellets are best, or try salt
I wouldnt use slug pellets because they are poisonous to pets, its not a nice sight seeing your pet throw up after eating slug pellets or even worse it could be a vet job. salt does kill them but you cant be there all the time to catch them, pots sunk into the ground with cheap beer in them is effective, but if you dont want to use any of these then try putting gravel down as they dont like walking, sorry slithering over it,
Theres a few things you can do, i suppose it just depends how kind or enviromentally friendly you are. You could use slug pellets but this is not very kind to the birds who may feed on the slugs. You could go down the salt route and sneak out late at night in the dark with a torch. You could place little pots of beer in the ground which effectively drowns the slugs and to be really enviromentally friendly you could opt for copper strips around containers or raised borders to deter them as they hate it. A last alternative is to buy Nematodes, mocroscopic organisms you apply to the ground that attack the slug and eventually kill them. Hope that gives you a few options :)
The best way to keep them from eating your plants is by placing a border around your plants made of ashes from burned wood or paper- they cannot stand it and will immediately turn away.
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