I have discovered a organic way to keep slug and snails off plants and seedlings. Keep your teasels and put them around your plants. If you cant get teasels try using ladys hair rollers [the self grip type] they come in different colours so you might be able to get brown that wont look odd. I got teasels from a dried flower arrangement.cheers Ann
walk around the garden and notice anything laying there, old wood , rubbish, odd stones lift and you wil find slugs snails and creepy crawlies to remove garden horrors love decaying wood and rubbish to hibernate in over the winter
Nematodes........... reads like something from Jules Verne or John Wyndham, The day of the Nematodes ! I really think that the only good these critters do is line the pockets of the breeders of these so called voracious things. They last for a short time, cost a fortune to have any effect on a patch of allotment, and then one has to start all over again ! I have tried my own system, to broadcast slug pellets over a legume patch, rake it it well, and the molluscs go for it UNDERGROUND, leaving it safe for the birds, hedgehogs and wotnot that patrol of an evening. Better still, DIG the pellets in deeper than a raking !
In this months Gardeners World a reader suggested using newspaper instead of straw under strawberries to keep slugs off. Has anyone tried this, and doesn’t it go soggy.
we have had many more snails and slugs this year than ever before..snails especially.. but i habe couple of thrushes in the garden so they eat them.. i just put them outon the path for them to find.
slugs.. i was told only the brown ones are what eat yor plants.. not the black ones.. i do not know if this is right.
thou must admit hubby this year as put a ring of copper round the top of the veg raised bed..s othe blighters cant get across to eat our stuff.. is working so far.
@Unity, The newspaper works untill it rains!! Then it is soggy and no good. I use some old carpet and cut it to go round my pots and this works although next year I'll be planting in hanging baskets as they look beautiful............With regards to slugs/snails etc we have a garden hedged with Laurel, approx 30feet high, Not sure why but when we moved in there wasnt an inch of bark to be seen, it was covered top to bottom in snails of all shapes/colours and sizes. We went out the same night armed with a bucket and torch to collect them and deposit them in the woods over the road and lo and behold there wasn't a critter to be seen on the laurel.................they were covering the lawn, paths and pots scattered around the garden...........there were hundreds if not thousands of them. We collected them up over a few weeks and took them to the woods, we dont have a problem really with them now, maybe one or two hidden under the rim of the odd pot ...........maybe we have done them a favour and they have all found a happpy home and something nicer to eat in the woods............
As previously mentioned, I have heard that the blighters do not like to make contact with copper. I have an old hot water tank to cut up and make some mini fences with. I will be watching closely and reporting back!
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Put out a jar of beer the slugs will love this and die happy Hic Hic!
walk around the garden and notice anything laying there, old wood , rubbish, odd stones lift and you wil find slugs snails and creepy crawlies to remove garden horrors love decaying wood and rubbish to hibernate in over the winter
we have had many more snails and slugs this year than ever before..snails especially.. but i habe couple of thrushes in the garden so they eat them.. i just put them outon the path for them to find.
slugs.. i was told only the brown ones are what eat yor plants.. not the black ones.. i do not know if this is right.
thou must admit hubby this year as put a ring of copper round the top of the veg raised bed..s othe blighters cant get across to eat our stuff.. is working so far.
@Unity, The newspaper works untill it rains!! Then it is soggy and no good. I use some old carpet and cut it to go round my pots and this works although next year I'll be planting in hanging baskets as they look beautiful............With regards to slugs/snails etc we have a garden hedged with Laurel, approx 30feet high, Not sure why but when we moved in there wasnt an inch of bark to be seen, it was covered top to bottom in snails of all shapes/colours and sizes. We went out the same night armed with a bucket and torch to collect them and deposit them in the woods over the road and lo and behold there wasn't a critter to be seen on the laurel.................they were covering the lawn, paths and pots scattered around the garden...........there were hundreds if not thousands of them. We collected them up over a few weeks and took them to the woods, we dont have a problem really with them now, maybe one or two hidden under the rim of the odd pot ...........maybe we have done them a favour and they have all found a happpy home and something nicer to eat in the woods............
Slugs 'n snails are like 'Homing Pidgeons' pick them up - throw them away- and they will return.
I collect most of mine in a small bag and deposit them about 5 miles away.
SORTED!!!
As previously mentioned, I have heard that the blighters do not like to make contact with copper. I have an old hot water tank to cut up and make some mini fences with. I will be watching closely and reporting back!