Slugs slugs and more slugs

[Chasingmytail]

eating my veg - at this rate there will be nothing left.

Can I have your tips please and only the ones that work. Feel sick after checking my cauliflowers and broccoli half of them have been munched.

I picked up as many as I could do before it was dark and cut them in half so a least the birds can have a go tomorrow.

I'm sad another battle...

 

[The Ruminant]

eating my veg - at this rate there will be nothing left.

Can I have your tips please and only the ones that work. Feel sick after checking my cauliflowers and broccoli half of them have been munched.

I picked up as many as I could do before it was dark and cut them in half so a least the birds can have a go tomorrow.

I'm sad another battle...

Ducks?

 

[Clive]

In a garden situation beer traps are supposed to work ?

Some ferric phosphate probably best bet

 

[Feldspar]

http://www.koreascience.or.kr/article/ArticleFullRecord.jsp?cn=OOGCBV_2007_v46n2_325

and

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13580-012-0100-9.

 

[Chasingmytail]

http://www.koreascience.or.kr/article/ArticleFullRecord.jsp?cn=OOGCBV_2007_v46n2_325

and

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13580-012-0100-9.

where do I get tobacco extract from? I was under the impression it was the yeast in the alcohol that induced the slugs? Think i'll have to do this tomorrow.

 

[Feldspar]

where do I get tobacco extract from? I was under the impression it was the yeast in the alcohol that induced the slugs? Think i'll have to do this tomorrow.

Ash tray deposits from the local pub and dump them in some old beer. Filter, dilute and spray through knapsack / handheld applicator. No idea if it'll work, but the theory looks promising!

 

[Chasingmytail]

we had ducks but the stupid things walked up the road for some odd reason and the fox had them. Looks like another expensive trip to the poultry seller. Another problem we had was the ducks would go into the hedge (which is on the perimeter) and get stuck. Spent many a night trying to get the swines out. In total we lost 5 runners, 4 white ducks and 2 geese (that flew off) bit of a disaster

 

[Chasingmytail]

anyone recommend Nemaslug? Biological - nematode?

 

[Rainmaker]

Egg shells broken down finely around the base of caulis is old organic gardeners trick.

 

[Louis Mc]

Biodynamic cure is to collect about a hundred slugs, burn them to ashes, then mix ashes with water and spray on the area........

Please try it and report back

 

[shakerator]

Porridge oats?

 

[Breakthru]

Coffee grounds which for some strange reason are illegal to use as slug deterrent in EU.
I am in the process of launching a website to supply Breakthru foliar spray in 50gramme packets for garden use.
£5/ 500m2. has a very effective anti feeding effect. If you pm me your details I will send you a sample to try.

 

[kernowcluck]

Biodynamic method is to make a disgusting dead slug soup. Pop your slugs in a bucket of water and when the slugs are completely decomposed spray the soup on to your veggies. I have used this fairly successfully.

 

[SoilMan]

i remember someone saying once that applying diatomaceous earth around the plants helps. Something to do with the slugs and snails not liking travelling over it.

I found beer traps catch and drown a few but you still get plenty of the buggers avoiding them and going to town on the veg.

 

[Dockers]

Shell, as you would feed your chicken on. Works very well !

 

[Chasingmytail]

 

[Pasty]

Airstrike.

 

[Breakthru]

i remember someone saying once that applying diatomaceous earth around the plants helps. Something to do with the slugs and snails not liking travelling over it.

I found beer traps catch and drown a few but you still get plenty of the buggers avoiding them and going to town on the veg.

Two types of diatamaceous earth. The soluble one is no use for slugs but excellent at releasing trace elements tied up in the soil due to its displacement charge. We use the insoluble for grain weevils and so should have same effect on slugs.

 

[shakerator]

Two types of diatamaceous earth. The soluble one is no use for slugs but excellent at releasing trace elements tied up in the soil due to its displacement charge. We use the insoluble for grain weevils and so should have same effect on slugs.

Great for grain store mites also totally food safe non toxic

 

[britt]

I sprinkle a ring of lime around each plant. Keeps clubroot off too.
I use meta pellets as well. Too much effort to risk.