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Slug Control in the Vegetable Garden

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Jun, 2017
By Sally Osgerby
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Watch out for slugs, and control them in the vegetable garden!

  • 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.
slug on cabbage

slug on cabbage

  • 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 there are no clods for slugs to hide under.

 

Think biological control:

  1. hedgehogs will fight the battle for you
  2. guinea fowl & other birds help
  3. dry, fine dusty material sticks to the slug & turns them away. Put a ring of soot around the seedlings
  4. rosemary needles deter slugs
  5. small cups of beer dropped into the ground act as traps

If all else fails invest in some slug pellets to control slugs in the garden.

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