Slug Control in the garden
Watch out for slugs!
- Slugs eat young seedlings and will completely destroy your plans.
- Slugs like warm, moist conditions. So this spring has been perfect for them.
- Assume you will have slugs and be prepared.
Keep the vegetable garden tidy.
- Slugs will make camp under anything:- weeds, old leaves & branches, stones & plant pots, soil clods.
- So remove all potential hideouts.
- Keep the soil raked, so that it is small crumbs and no clods.
Think biological control:
- hedgehogs will fight the battle for you
- guinea fowl & other birds help
- dry, fine dusty material sticks to the slug & turns them away. Put a ring of soot around the seedlings
- rosemary needles deter slugs
- small cups of beer dropped into the ground act as traps
If all else fails invest in some slug pellets.
In the evening i lay some plastic sheets by my borders and in the morning lift them up and collect all the slugs that have made thier way under it . Then feed them to the fish.On a damp evening you can collect quite a few.
Comment by Colin Williams - March 10, 2007 8:34 am
Hi Colin
This is a brilliant example of biological control. The slugs are attracted to the damp environment under your plastic sheets. So you are enticing them in, picking them off in the morning and feeding the fish a valuable protein, fresher than any you could buy!
Thanks for sharing it with us
TopVeg
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