the garden was over run with these slime balls last year & i was wandering if there was somewhat of an easy way to get rid of them. iam getting chickens this year hoping that will help.
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Bowl full of beer. Trust me, just like humans, slugs are attracted to beer, but they lack the ability to swim, so when they get drunk they drown.
The beer thing works, but you have to bury it up to the rim. They will drown themselves.
Also you can wrap a strip of screen (plastic works as well as metal) around your flower pots. They will tear themselves up if they try to cross it.
Another way is to wrap a copper strip around your flower pots. The copper reacts with the slime on their bodies and discourages them from crossing it.
Also, don’t plant marigolds ~ they LOVE them.
i read it was soapy water, but i haven’t tried it yet
Table salt
put rock salt on them and watch them suffer
There are a couple of products that you can try. Ask at your garden store. Plain salt sprinkled around your plants will help also. ALso don’t forget the beer, it works wonders.
spinkle with salt
Good ole table salt..
obviously you can poison them with pellets or you can spend time looking for them and just getting rid of the eggs or slugs with you fingers, you can put cans or glass jars in the ground filled with beer and the slugs will get attracted and fallm in or you can keep a chicken , encourage hedgehogs or put rough material such as sand paper around the bottom of each plant.
I have GOT to try the beer trick
In the past I have used table salt.
You can use Diatomaceous Earth to control slugs and all sorts of other insects in your garden. Just dust it on the ground where you usually find slugs. However, diamotaceous earth isn’t harmful to humans, animals, or earthworms. Also, toads eat slugs. You could go catch a few and put them in your garden.
Salt isn’t something I would recommend putting around plants because that could kill the plants. You sprinkle salt on them after you have them in a container to kill them. Ground eggshells work or copper around the plants because they get a shock of some kind when they touch it so they don’t cross.
Dig a trench around the garden,fill with salt.
chickens will eat your seedlings and tear apart your mature plants
Get ducks their bills arent as sharp
plus their cuter
Hope you find this website useful…
Slug control
Slug Baits
Slug barriers
http://www.garden-services.com/slug_control.htm
Beer is my favorite method… UC Davis has a lot of good information about snails and slugs… http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7427.html
I have found the Slug Bell it uses organic or normal slug pellets which are not scattered on the ground so they are not accessible to children pets wildlife etc. also the pellets do not dissolve into the soil so it really is quite environmentally friendly it can be moved around to where the slugs are look up the website and see for yourself