Best way to kill slugs - they are everywhere!! HELP?
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Keep slug pokers stuck around the garden at random. Meet your enemy, one on one... Your weapon is at hand, impale them!
Fill a small bowl with stale beer. Put it in the areas where the slugs are active. Stale beer attracts the slugs and they drown. You may also use grape juice or a tea made from yeast, honey and water.
An early morning stroll around the garden, salt shaker in hand will often result in many casualties for the bad guys.
Destroy any and ALL slug eggs you find!
Bait and destroy tactics work. Set a pile of slightly dampened dry dog food in an area frequented by slugs. In the morning and evening visit the feeding station a few times. slug poker in hand
Cedar bark or gravel chips spread around your plant will irritate and dehydrate slugs.
The sharp edges of crushed eggshells around the plants will cut and kill slugs. The calcium in the eggshells is a good soil amendment anyway!
Sprinkle a line of lime around your plants. (Obviously this won't work around plants requiring a more acidic soil)
Certain herbs (Rosemary, lemon balm,wormwood, mints, tansy, oak leaves, needles from conifers and seaweed will repel slugs. However using a mulch of these plants will only turn thhe slugs away, in search of other food sources.
Oat bran will kill slugs when they eat it... sprinkle some around.
small containers of beer.
or, there is a box of stuff you can buy at a hardware store or any nursery type store.
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Salt. It melts them quick.
Very simple. Table salt. Give them a good douse, they will die.
Hope this helps you.
A spritzer bottle filled with water and household ammonia in a 50/50 ratio works well. A few spritzes and they die. An added benefit - the ammonia has nitrogen that can be used by plants as a nutrient.
slug pellets!!
or failing that put salt on the ground around where they go and do this every day and they'll die off!!
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Strong coffee poured directly on slugs kills them. Also, spread coffee grounds & coffee around the base of the plant.
Garlic spray is great for getting rid of slugs, cutworms, wireworms, & whiteflies:
Blend well 1garlic bulb & 1 onion add 1Tbsp cayenne pepper & 1 quart water. Steep ingredients for 1 hr, then strain & add 1 Tbsp dish soap and your non-toxic spray is ready.
Dry, dusty or sharp materials, such as hydrated lime, wood ash, sharp sand, crushed egg shells, or diatamaceous earth, will kill slugs if they try to go over them.
Wormwood is also effective as a spray.
Place boards on ground & scrape off snails when they gather on the underside, or kill them by placing shallow containers sunk into the ground and filled with beer or other fermenting substances such as sour milk, or even a mixture of water and bakers yeast.
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