How do I get rid of slugs in my garden? Slug pellets do not seem to work!?
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Try putting up bird seeds etc - the birds will eat the slugs - I think??
Pave it over Pinkpoodle and the slugs will disappear. Put some lovely pot plants around the garden and it will look smashin
rock salt arround edges
salt, salt and lots of salt!
Get some of your next door neighbours frogs if your neighbours don't have any frogs get in touch mine have
Put salt on the beggars! Then watch em disintegrate! Lol im only joking thats cruel, i did that when i was a kid then felt so guilty i cried! lol
I have read that slugs can't resist beer. Put plastic jar lids at various places on the ground filled with beer and the slugs will drink themselves to death! (just like some humans)*_*
Salt!!!!
Two ways, go in the garden in the morning and salt them, then go out as it is going dark and salt some more, do this every day and by the end of the summer, you may not find so many, but you will still find them, or, put saucers off beer out, drown a couple of hundred, and again, the summer will be gone before they are!
You can buy beer holders which are plastic containers with raised lids. The containers are usually sunk into the ground so that they don't fall or get knocked over; part fill with beer and let the slugs die happy.
To keep them away from particular areas - a trail of salt.
Encourage natural predators like blackbirds, robins, frogs and toads.
Try the personal approach: Go out at night with a plastic bag and a torch. Gather up all the slugs you can fid and bin them.
Try the employer approach: when the kids are bored - offer them a chance to earn extra money by collecting and bagging slugs (I don't know what you can get away with - say 1p for every 5 collected - you may have to negotiate!)
Slug pellets aren't a good idea - other things like song birds may eat dying slugs and be poisoned.
get some hedgehogs.they love slugs.seriously u need 2 water with salt water.wont harm grass but the slugs will pack up and leave.trust me.u tell me in 3 days if im wrong.also get some hair cuttings from hairdressers and sprinkle around .hurts the soft boddies cos they are sharp.gud luck
I use to have a big problem in my garden with slugs and snails, then i bought a hen, no more slugs and snails! she cleaned then right up.
Get a couple of magpies into your garden, they will hunt out slugs and snails. Alternativley get some toads. The less chemicals you use the more natural predetors you can attract.
salt
It's one of those things best done by hand, but you don't really have to touch them. Don't put salt on your garden because it harms the plants. Slugs crawl under things, so put things for them to crawl under. A traditional favorite was the outer leaves of cabbages, but other things work. Pieces of slate, slats of wood, pieces of asphalt roofing shingles all work well. Each morning, turn them over and use a stick to flick the slugs off into a plastic pail with salt or beer in the bottom. If beer, you can dump them in the garden every couple of days. It's a routine chore, but you should have fewer and fewer as time goes by.
Scatter oat bran on the soil to kill slugs and snails.
Coffee poured directly on slugs kills them.
Spread coffee grounds around base of plants.
Flour: When slugs get coated with the flour, they suffocate & drop off.
The roots of quack grass are more toxic to the slugs than the leaves! Use no more than 2 ounces of dried quack grass per 10 square feet. Too much could inhibit the growth of your plants ( use on established perrenials). Quack grass does have some herbicidal properties to it.
Sprinkle Chili pepper on slugs & on & around the plants.
Trap & kill slugs with beer or other fermented material such as 1 teaspoon of baking yeast in 3 ounces of water.
Galic spray is great for getting rid of slugs, cutworms, wireworms, & whiteflies:
In a blender mix 4 cloves of garlic with 1 chopped onion. Place this mixture in a large glass jar and add 2 cups of water. Add 2 teaspoons of bottled hot pepper sauce, stir ingredients together and steep for 2 days. Strain the mixture and add one tablespoon Ivory liquid soap. Then dilute with 5 cups of water. Make sure you don't forget the last step, or the mixture will be too strong, & don't use in full sun or high temperatures because that's when it can burn or stress plants. (1)
Also, a two inch strip of copper flashing material is an effective slug barrier. It carries a very mild electrical charge which is stimulated by contact with the slug’s slimy mucus. While humans can't detect it, slugs can, and they're repelled. (2)
Surround your plants with one of these: wood ash, sharp sand, crushed egg shells, lava rock, diatamaceous earth, cedar, oak bark chips or gravel chips. These will cut & dehydrate the slugs, & eliminate them.
Put a small, shallow saucer of beer in your garden. I don't know why, but they love it, fall in and drown.works great. You can also go around your plant with diatamaceous earth you can buy in the lawn and garden section of just about any store, but read the warnings. The slugs crawl over it to get to your plants and it scratches their bodies and they die.broken up walnuts shells work too.
I go out with a pointy stick every morning and literally harpoon them from my pots of plants - I then throw them on the lawn for the birds. Pretty disgusting but rather that than my plants being chewed to death, plus it's more environmentally friendly and doesn't harm the wildlife (other than the slugs).
bury a small bowl and fill it with beer the slug will craw in a drink and drown
Cut the top three inches off the top of a capless litre plastic water bottle. Invert the top back to the lower part. Tape/staple to join.
Bury bottle upright in the garden soil, just to rim, with beer in the bottom. The slugs crawl in to get the beer and can't climb out.
you need to encourage wildlife into your garden to get rid of them naturally frogs hedgehogs and birds do a great job ditch the slug pellets all pellets contain attractants to get slugs to eat them all you do is attract more slugs
I have resorted to biological slug control using nematodes that infest the slugs and kill them. I definitely have much less problems with slugs now.
Try them:
http://www.defenders.co.uk/pest-solution...
Set beer traps, dig little holes, then use jars covered with slate to prevent dilution from rain (use a stone to lift the slate slightly off the jar) ... or create a similar construction.
It does catch gazillions, but your plants will still be more appetising than beer to some slugs.
Slug pellets worked for me. This year it has been wood pigeons and black fly damaging all my vegetables. If it's not one pest, it's another ...
beer they drown in it or coal ashes
Get a nice sharp stick or skewer and go out in the evening or early morning and pog them with the stick like shish kebabs.
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