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how do you kill garden slugs in an organic garden?
By admin | April 7, 2010
Topics: Organic Gardening | 19 Comments »
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By admin | April 7, 2010
Topics: Organic Gardening | 19 Comments »
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
place ash from a fireplace around the garden to keep them out.
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
beer trap or salt,
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Go find a hedgehog.
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Whilst I would prefer to mash them, I have a wild area of the garden which is overgrown with nettles. I just plop them in there and the hedgehogs get them.
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
After a good watering, and the sun has gone down, wander the garden with a flashlight and a salt shaker. Look around the plants and when you see a slug or snail just sprinkle salt on it.
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Pour salt on them & watch them shrivel [ not nice to watch]
Beer as others have said.
Copper tape around any prized pots, works wonders on my hosta pots.
Encourage hedgehogs
Egg shell never seemed to work maybe I crumbled it up to fine.
They hate sand & ash
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Use a cup or a jar half full with beer, sink it in the ground, put a slate over it and raised slightly the slugs die happy and you can add them to your compost bin.
I use the method of not encouraging slugs in to my garden.
In a 20 ft X 22 ft garden i have about 20 places for birds to nets, some are boxes others are bushes, i also have a 6 to 9 inch mulch over my garden this keeps the pests at bay, then in each corner of the garden i have a pile of logs which the slug eating black beatles shelter under and a pond made out of a child’s paddling pool which encourages frog, toads and newts to my garden
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Go out at night with a torch and collect them up. Its piles of fun!
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Dig a hole ,fill a glass with beer and watch them go into it and die drunk
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Salt them
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
salt!
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Salt
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
organic beer
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Bury jam jars and half fill them with beer – not lager – and they will be attracted to it and then fall in and drown.
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Salt
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Put down a small saucer and pour beer into it. You’ll need to change this daily but it works like a voodoo charm!
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
Put egg shells or copper wire around plants or borders you are worried about. Snails will not go over egg shells as it cuts them to ribbons and they also get electric shock from copper wire, so will not pass over it.
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
There is this power something like diatomic crystals you sprinkle on the ground.. or tale and old jar lid and bury so even with the ground and fill with beer.
April 7th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
I agree with everyone who said a glas of beer.I do suggest changing it every day and you need a rather strong stomach to do it.