How to Get Rid of SLUGS & SNAILS
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- In this video I break down myths and truths on how to prevent snail and slug attack!
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I don't kill slugs but I deter 99.9% of them with two strips of copper tape or wire around my veg beds connected to a battery. The gruesome gastropods will cross the first strip but as soon as he/she touches the second placed about 3/8 inch away the circuit is made and they coil back with a severe headache. This is the ONLY system that works in my garden so the 'All you can eat' salad bar is now closed.
Doesn’t work
@mugsmaster perhaps your slugs have learned to abseil 😅
Stepping on them with construction boots on works really good too
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That’s great if you have a few things to protect - I have hundreds!
Great video. I came here because I have a constant battle with slugs and snails in my garden here in UK. Coffee grounds don’t work, you are absolutely right! One thing I have been using that does seem to work is a garlic wash. I water my dahlias and chard with it and it does seem to deter them.
Most excellent brother. "25 ways to attract rats." Brilliant.
I almost clicked off the video when he said that.
Cats eat rats
I would rather have slugs and snails instead of rats
Attract rats……I was like, whaaaat??? You got me! Hilarious!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah. me too.
I'm good I don't need rats
Amazing sites and information, so tghank you very much. I live here in Nova Scotia Canada and I use seaweed in my garden and it stops snails all together. You layer the seaweed ontop of the garden and as it drys the snails will not crawl across it. Plus the seaweed gives amazing fertilizer to the garden
I’m in San Diego near the coast and snails are everywhere. Before I built my raised bed, I cleared the fence, Iceplant, and area where it be. I picked off the fence more than 40 snails over 3 days and tossed them into the canyon. I bought Corry’s Slug/Snail Killer. Followed the instructions, and haven’t seen them since.
This was very interesting. I have not seen snails or slugs in my garden, but that doesn't mean they aren't there by any means. I like the copper tape idea for seedlings.
I've just always bought Safers natural slug bait from my hardware store. It's volcanic ash pellets. Wet it, they eat it. Wrecks their guts. Seems to be good for 2 weeks of slug free gardening before slug issues start up again.
I'm so afraid of snakes too!!! Literally frozen in fear 😱
Glad I just picked some Sluggo! Thanks for the video.
Living in England all of my life, I had a lot of issues with slugs and snails, as you can imagine. I tried so many things to stop them, but nothing worked. You are certainly correct about the myths, however I find copper has an issue. Copper will get dirty fairly quickly, which means that the slimy things will get over unharmed. You will also need to renew it frequently. I found just 2 deterrents from getting to my produce. One was to use marigolds as companion plants, and the other was a product named Slug Gone, by the company Vitax. It is completely natural, degrades, and while not perfect, it works pretty well. Unfortunately I couldn't attract frogs. I will do a video on this as well soon. Yours reminded me that I am still to do it. Thank you, as always great viewing. I have a long way to catch up on my channel.
After years of battling slugs with beer bait and hand picking, You presented Sluggo . I've resisted buying extra products because I'm a hardcore permaculture minimalist. But I applied some last week and voila' ! Not a single slug on my two large beds of lettuce and kale so I'm willing to make this compromise because it's organic. Thank you Brian :)
Apparently it has a lot of collateral damage. Earthworms for example.
@@lukeallison88 I’ve never used any of these products so is there something you’d use so it doesn’t hurt all the good creatures Mother Nature has given us? Someone mentioned pipe cleaners circled around the base of plants for slugs etc due to them not liking spiky things, toothpicks inserted next to seedlings for cutworms, planting calendula trap crops for strawberries… I just can’t keep up lol
I have frogs! Lots and lots. Tree frogs, ground frogs and something in between. Point being...my frogs aren’t doing their job bc I have a ton of the snails too. We’re gonna have a talk tonight about stepping up and getting to work 😂💜😂
Lol I said the same things.Those frogs need to earn their keep. 😅
@@delphine88313 😂😂
I've found that cinnamon is very effective at controlling slugs. Salt is also effective, but you don't want to use that near soil obviously. But, it works great in dark stairwells or other areas where it stays cooler and they can hide out during the day.
Cinnamon is expensive, no way am I poring it on the ground. But cool idea.
There's a dollar store here where we can buy cinnamon. Very cheap for enough bottles to work with. I might try.
@@joquitasullivan6353 thry have cinn. At the dollar (1.25 now in michigan) store if that helps
I am 74 have lived in this house 50 years and that’s how long I’ve dealt with slugs and snails for quite a while shared my beer with them did take care of a few but wasn’t sharing anymore. Every year they would absolutely eat my rhubarb leaves completely leaving almost nothing I even tried slide bait then on shark tank a couple of years ago I saw a product called first Saturday lime it is safe for humans and pets so I thought what the h you can even put it on the leaves of your plants I have the most beautiful lush rhubarb leaves and also I quit planting flowers because they would devastate myFlowers eating them to the ground I wish I knew how to send a picture because I now have amazing looking rhubarb leaves and amazing flowers I hope this helps
Yes! Those critters deserve to die for Rhubarb. I hardly know anyone who likes it. I've live in MO but grew up with my Mom making Rhubarb sauce. My Dad grew up in a farm that had tons all the time in IA. I make pies & crisps & jams. Unfortunately I only container garden & don't know anyone who grows it.
Ducks LOVE snails, maybe get a duck rather than get rats lol
In Oregon, and I have no problems with anything eating my rhubarb leaves, but they eat cucumber plants, melons and lettuce. My rhubarb is so big, that I need to divide it this fall.
Thank you
Those are some gangster slugs. Rubarb leaves are poisonous.
People on your channel have the same sense of humor as you and I love it. They all got jokes🤣
Thank you for your slug help!
Love your garden!
I have turtles in my gardens here in southern Maryland, and trust me, they eat slugs. I've watched them do it 😊 The frogs in my garden also help. Since these guys took up residence, I'm a happy gardener. Loved the video as usual! Oh, yeah snakes...just had to say it 😂
Love your humor! Thanks for the video :)
There used to be an enormous bullfrog in my yard... had to do everything to keep my dog away from it. Always seemed to find hum buried in the dirt where I planned to dig... maybe where my dog was digging, too... hmmm. Haven't seen him yet this spring...and slugs got all my seedlings whereas they never touched them before. Copper it is!
I've had some luck with those copper plated pot scrubbers. You can unravel them, forming a mesh tubular netting. Each one is about 18 inches long and can be stretched around a medium planter and twist tied in place. It makes about a 2 inch barrier. Two for a buck at Dollar Tree.
The “copper’’ scrubbies from the dollar tree are colored steel. I bought them and they rusted away within a month
I tried pure copper scrubbers this season. Very disappointed that they didnt work.
I currently have all of these - rats, slugs, snails and worst of all squirrels. Loads of birds who of course eat none of these and next door's cat who doesn't hunt rats. 😬
Trying to encourage hedgehogs in to eat slugs and snails but getting rats instead.😬
Haven't got snakes though (this is London!).🤔
All your snakes are in the Parliament.
I love you Gina and wish we were neighbors! Greetings from Ohio!
Popped down the garden tonight to bring in the washing and find I've got bats now too! It's like a zoo of useless wildlife! Do bats eat slugs or squirrels by any chance? I do get foxes occasionally but instead of eating the rats they just scream all night. 🙄
I did put copper tape on my tomato pots and so far the slugs have not been near - probably working up an appetite on all my other plants first ☹️
Really glad to hear Sluggo is not harmful because last year I applied so much of it , ( there were slugs in my turnip bed, my peas and even my sunflowers, carrots) ... everything was white. We had so much rain last year!!! I tried just about every thing you mentioned, except the snakes and lizards, with no success. until I tried Sluggo 👩🏽🌾👍🏽🧡🧡🧡🧡 Works great!!
Kills earthworms and other innocent bystanders
Egg shells work very well for me. I use them in flowerpots, and they also serve as fertilizer. The beer works well also, I never buried a cup, but simply placed a plastic cup firmly in my garden, the snails crawled up and into the cup and drowned.
You had me really nervous for a sec thinking I had to have rats in my garden!! 👏😆
One thing I found that works great is twist ties that have spikey burs on them for decorating I guess, but can be found at the dollar store and you just have to make a circle with it around your plant. Slugs and snails hate spiny things , so they will crawl up to it hit the spines and crawl away. Hope this helps someone.
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Do you mean the fuzzy pipe cleaners for kids crafts etc?
@adriankap2978 yes exactly
Thank you !!! this was so helpful :)
Wonderful information as usual, thank you. Do you have anything on spider mites on banana plants?
Boiled orange peel water sprayed on plants.
Do you have any videos on planting and growing cucumbers?
You’re videos are great 👍thanks for all your great advice!
Hedgehogs Brian!! They're the gardeners best friend in UK/Ire!! Only native ones though, not the light coloured little pet ones.
Regarding others, I found beer traps effective, but they seem to attract slugs from far away so I only use them where a plant has frequent visitors, like my cabbages this year. I've tried diatomaceous earth/celite in a spray but have yet to find a sprayer nozzle that doesn't block. Copper tape is good, but can tarnish have a film after outdoor exposure, I use a little scrubby pad to brush it up. Garden is too dry for frogs, and finally snakes/lizards....I live in Ireland man, St. Patrick drove all the snakes out years ago! :D
I LOVED this video. I don't usually have problems with this pest - but the humor is great. PS - me and snakes don't mix either. You have a safe ear here! :)
I just go out when it’s dark with a torch, and squash them
I watched your video and I bought sluggo. I’ve had snails for a few years in my garden but when I went to put the sluggo on I noticed that there were only snails shells left. I also noticed there was a large lizard in the garden and I think it ate all the snails. Thank you for your advice.
Just yesterday a saw a sneak and I thought' lucky me!" I have been having mice in my patch and snakes 'love' mice.
.. therefore I love snakes 💚🐍🐍🐍💚
Thank you for the copper strip tip 😉
I have had slugs bad this year. I used Epsom salt, sprinkled around my raised beds and in the base of my tomato pots. I find spots that use to be a slug. About completely stopped my problem. Guess you could say it stopped them in their tracks!
Thanks for that I was going to look up if epsom salt was ok to use 👍. They are eating my lillies which I planted in the ground. I am under attack 😡😠😤
@@MsTruthhurts007 I haven't tried using it around the flowers. I know tomato's they say to put a sprinkle to help the plant so I did just that. I have wood mulch around all my raised beds so I wasn't as concerned of it hurting veggies. Might try around one to see. I am just getting into flowers so I won't be a lot of help on lilies.
Coffee grounds work. Worked for me. Zero snails this year in my strawberries and I lost next to no strawberries to slugs. And it has been plenty wet out, too. Last year without coffee grounds we lost plenty to snails and slugs, this year no snails and very few slugs.
great video!
I have several anole lizards that live in my garden, small frogs which I hear at night, and I have started using slugo. In the past, there have been snails, but they haven't done a lot of damage, and I have never seen slugs. But this year there are almost no snails, but the population of slugs has grown to almost plague level in my garden (the only difference this year is I have added a lot more mulch due to soil erosion in the yard itself, and for moisture retention in the garden). I have several anoles that live in the garden, and have sprinkled Slugo around, plus went on a few 'hunts' where I just caught and killed any I could find, and while the numbers have somewhat decreased, they are still everywhere and doing damage.
Wow!! Slugs oozing across a razor blade??? Too much. When we lived in Washington state, the slugs were terrible and there was a product called Deadline that worked great. It was liquid and you literally just drew a line with it around your plants.
I’m with you on the snakes. Last year I had several snake encounters on the property and I always had some friends say “that’s a good snake and will eat the venomous snakes.” Hey, if it gives me a heart attack when I see it, it’s a BAD snake. 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for another great video, Brian!❤️🥰❤️
Round eye snakes are the good snakes not that you’re sticking around long enough to find that out 😆 but keep in mind they are great mouse and rat killers. My neighbor had seen snakes around his property since moving in and found a nest near his house so he destroyed it and the mother. As soon as that happened the mice moved in instead and still has issues 2 yrs later. If you have a lot of snakes it’s because you have a food source they want. I just leave them alone if they leave me alone as long as they aren’t venomous.
We use slugo. And we’ve tried many other products. But what we’ve found is that no matter what we use, once it rains or once we have watered well...nothing works and has to be reapplied. 😞 Here in Oregon it’s a constant battle
The rat joke had me in tears 🤣🤣🤣👊🏾
This was helpful! I've got a ton of mulch down and I think that's what is causing my slug infestation (the ground staying moist). Happy to hear you recommend sluggo. I've been using Garden Safe slug bait but can't find it in stores anywhere right now. Apparently all the local gardeners are fighting the same foe.
Snail bait kills earthworms, pets, and alot of wildlife. Best option is to buy benefital insects and nematodes that eat pests
I just picked that up on Amazon actually! Does it work well? You just make a wall around the bed?
@@bryaningham7440 it does work well. I just sprinkle a circle around the base of the plant or row of plants
Three things that work for me:
Narrow copper strips definitely don't work. Two strips spaced about a half inch apart work better. But the ultimate is to connect a waterproofed 9v battery to the two strips. The snails will happily go across the first strip, but when they reach the second strip, they complete the circuit and get 9v running through them. They move back very quickly. It doesn't harm them, but it's an effective barrier.
Something that is available in the UK (I don't know about other countries) is packets of live, nematodes. These are microscopic worm-like creatures and there are millions of them in each pack. You put them in a watering can and water your garden. The slugs and snails eat the nematodes, which then start to eat the slug/snail from the inside, killing them. As the nematodes are alive, you have to use them as soon as you get them (or keep them sealed in their pack in the refrigerator for a couple of days). They work and can be effective for about 6 to 8 weeks.
In the UK and much of Europe, Asia and Africa, we have the luxury of a small, spiky, nocturnal creature; the hedgehog. If you're fortunate enough to have one or more in your garden, they will eat as many slugs and snails as they can find. I get a family of 3 hedgehogs visiting my garden most nights and they are most welcome.
Love your videos. I have to say I have had good success with the egg shells. Go figure. Then again I do have a good colony of lizards. We also have these little grey snakes. They live all over CA and they are different colors in different areas of CA. We are very excited when we come upon them. They are usually found under tarps, rocks or wood. The ones in our county is a drab grey with a stripe of red down the sides, NOT a red racer. The good snakes like garter, king and gopher snakes keep the rattlesnake population down, too. Thank you for the information. 👍
Thanks for this interesting video. I use sluggo and the beer. They both work for me.
You are just the absolute best.... WHY AM I SUCH A NERD! (Geeking out over Gardening)
I like your sense of humor. I would say that slugs "shimmy" across :) We have lizards in the cottage garden and they do a great job on the slugs and snails.
I have a pond. It took a couple of years for the frogs and toads to find it but find it they did. My neighbours are complaining about the croaking night racket and they (not the neighbours) don’t seem to eat the snails with the hard shells 😡
My yard and garden has 1000s of snails. (FYI the brown pointy ones will eat the round ones) I finally resorted to using Sluggo which I had bought several years ago and never used. I can tell you it works. We've been having torrential rains here, so I'll have to reapply it. Thinking about those ducks, though.
ducks are AMAZING at eating slugs!! soon there will be none and then I started digging worms for my grrrls. The best ducks for brains and being good pets (almost dog like) are the muscovies; quiet, quackless ducks. Face only a mother could love but once You get used to them, You will be forever hooked! And duck eggs are a thousand times better than chicken eggs. can't make good French pastry without ;-) They are messy and LOVE their water though... Need a small coup to be protected from predators while they sleep but... if all that is OK... You will never have another bug of any kind.
I've tried everything you mentioned except reptiles (I'd rather have the snails). I find a nightly snail hunt works the best. Armed with a Ziploc baggie with a teaspoon of salt dissolved in 2/3 cup of water, I roam the perimeter of my property plopping every snail I find into the baggie. The first night I got 50, every night after that the numbers declined until I was down to 5 or so. Zip up the baggie and throw it in the garbage - problem solved. The best time to find them is after you have watered your lawn or garden in the evening.
Thank you for telling about the salt. After you said that I look a plastic cup with real salty water
And the snails sunk To the bottom. Lot easier then smashing them. Not quite so yucky. I have so many snails here.i keep putting sluggo down and find lot of dead emails but seems like there is a million more
Really? I go in the evenings in my garden EVERY EVENING the number of slugs does not decrease.
Look under thing's,during the day they hide,under pot's, stones, rocks.i can't kill them, I throw them in the woods over my fence
Washing up liquid in water kills the buggers, when you see them just drop in the
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I save on soap and water and just stomp them.
Doesn't bother me a bit. I work my bee hind off for this garden and their not getting em.
Awwww, poor babies 😩not
Thank you for this video! I have snails living in my basil plants lol
I have had great success serving beer to slugs. It is also enjoyed by the earwigs. A few large bottles of cheap beer protected our garden very well last year.
Thanks bro, gonna get me some "Sluggo" . These little buggers are tormenting me!!!
Really good video i have tried alot of these things and they have all not worked. The only thing that ive found that works is a flashlight at night and me picking them off one by one with a rubber glove dropping them in a cup of vinegar. Localized watering to prevent extreme moisture helps
No slugs or snails here this year. We are on the drought side but, I did try beer when we had slugs when I lived in rain country in AK. Beer did not work. Not one drown slug. My method was to pick off the slugs and put them in ziplocks, ewwww! Wish I’d known about Sluggo back then. Thank you for another great vid.
You got me with the rat thing, well done
Well, I can tell ya the beer does NOT work. The slugs ate my plants and washed it down with the beer.
This comment made me laugh out loud
Thanks bud. Fighting slugs and ants in my salsa garden here in kc. Need all the help I can get.
I've used a salt barrier, it works. Has to be renewed a lot, especially in the rainy season.
The beer traps have worked great for me, but I put a deep enough small cup in there and the beer is deep enough, so far, they seem to be ‘biting the dust’ - or rather beer.
I’m a newbie gardener and will try sluggo as suggested here in some of the comments too!
Right there with you on the snake topic. I get that some are “good” but I am not sticking around long enough to see if it has a pointy nose, squinty eyes OR ANY other non-venomous markers. I prefer them to stay around the perimeter of my yard and out of my sight then we can be great BFF’s.
I saw a harmless snake in my garden a month ago and I screamed and ran for my life. It took me weeks to feel safe in the garden again and even now I still scout out the area before I go there. I will try the frog thing though and a duck recommended in the comments. Ty for the info.
Maybe do a vid on how to get rid of snakes lol.
I feel the same way about snakes 🐍 😬
African snail big problem every gardener , there are many snail in my garden eat my vegetable they are come at night time for me i am check at time before i going to bed thanks for sharing to us such educational experience
I was just researching slugs on cucumbers today. First year dealing with them... not sure what’s going on or what to do about it.
You're right!!! I learned u hate snakes! Lol. Good info on the slugs and snails though.
appreciate tf out of this video bro
Good information thanks
I saw a video on the Proven Winners channel where they said that some university in Oregon did a study and found that bread dough in a cottage cheese or other deep container was the best way to catch snails and slugs. In one 48 hr period they caught like 18,000 snails and slugs. They said it was the yeast in the bread that attracted them. PS, I hate snakes too!
I’ve heard all these same stories. Nothing has helped except chickens, birds and me coming out in the middle of the night and hand picking them. Drop them in a bucket with a lid. I keep them alive and in the morning drop them far away in the lawn across the house and watch the crows feast.
That’s hysterical keep them alive so the crows can have a feast LOL brilliant you don’t I have to kill them but take them where something else can kill them. That is really one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard so cute. Personally I just kill the suckers I mean flags lol I hope you read this you are too funny👍😊😊😊😊😊😊
Hi. Love your back yard landscaping. Just found your video as I have a issue with snails all over my house and pool deck. I actually don’t have any gardens. But still have this issue. I bought sluggo but haven’t used yet and thinking how in the hell is this going to work on the hard surfaces if it’s a granular? Any thoughts? Do I dilute it to spray?
I live in New Mexico with a lot of roadrunners in the neighborhood. The snails I have in one shady spot, I collect and bring them to the front yard, where the roadrunner can get them!
I Always Learn from you!!😉
i have used copper foil tape for over 40yrs and it works great for pots and raised beds so you can keep them away completely. their slime makes a battery and actually generate electricity that shocks them. just make sure there is nothing bridging the copper mote like a plant growing up past it 🙂
I hate those things! Thanks for advice on SLUGGO
Brilliant thank you!!!
Flea beetles have been my biggest issue after the slugs and aphids. Thankfully the ladybugs are starting to show up.
Do you have a favorite hot weather shade cloth? Didn't see it in yr products you love.
Thanks just wanted to confirm the copper wire theory.
Love , love your channel😍 Have been bing watching since I found you! Beer never worked for me either. I hunt them down and smash. I have thousands of them🤷🏻♀️ I’m surprised B T wouldn’t work on them? Also B T won’t hurt earthworms I hope?
I have found that Beer traps do work if there is a lid with a hole in. Ice-cream tubs work as do margarine tubs.
I have used Sluggo for years. They have Sluggo Plus now, which is an improved product. We have LOADS of snails here in South Texas but Sluggo Plus helps the population. It's great for pill bugs too.
I used to use the sluggo plus as it also kills earwigs too! but... the spinosad is not good for the bees and worms so... went back to sluggo regular. all I do is remember to do my perimeters 3-4 times a year and never get a slug inside the yard so I don't have to treat everywhere... unless I forget a couple of times :-(
i have more pill bugs than slugs!
Beer! Just do it. We had a horrific slug problem in our yard.The second year in our home we discovered if we put beer in small wide plastic containers and placed them under our plants in the evenings, in the morning they were filled with dead slugs. Sometimes as many as twenty or more per container. The next year we did it again and began to see less. This year we put them out in early spring and we saw a few very small baby slugs. Now they get one once in a while. It organic, not very expensive and works. No more slug poison and no more chewed up plants.
Please, believe me he is wrong about beer. It works. Just make sure the containers are less than an inch or so tall. We use containers that blue cheese crumbles come in but guacamole or other dip containers will work. Fill them about half up. You will use one beer for three to four containers if you resist drinking any while pouring. I’ve never seen a single slug on the sides or crawling out. In they go and drown. I wish I had photos. The dishes were full of them. I don’t guarantee it works as well on snails though. Also you will need to dump them out fairly often. Stale beer and dead snails really start to smell.
you can also use lime that is use for masonry around your plants or apply it on the slug to kill them.
No need to kill. Use strong espresso coffee powder...5/5 or 8/10 which ever you can buy and not weaker coffee bean powder. That is the strength that no slug likes.
I have had some success with Indian runner ducks in my garden. The ducks love slugs and snails and don't tear up the plants las much as chickens. They are adorable to watch but do have their drawbacks. They do require alot of care. Actually there are videos of Indian runner ducks trained to rid vineyards of them.
I live in eastern Washington State which is desert and slugs are one of our biggest problems. I have tried everything mentioned (copper wire, not tape) except snakes, lizards, and frogs. I was so excited when I threw a couple slugs into my chicken pen the first time. Nope. They looked at me like I’d poisoned them and wiped their beaks on the ground for 15 minutes (I don’t blame them). I know now that my plants have to be transplanted into the garden after they’ve reached a decent size. Mulch!?! Dont even get me started. Nothing but a slug maternity ward.
Sluggo works. I haven't had a slug and snail problem since the first drought a few years back. They were starved out or dried out. Only recently have I found one or two snails in one of my raised beds. I do what I did before I found out about Sluggo: Pick them up and throw them in the street. It helps seal the McAdam. I used to pay the kids to collect them, too. Nothing like a bribe. However, my neighbor's grand-daughter was visiting one day, and when she saw the snails in the street, she decided to rescue them by re-introducing them to my garden. When she found out I had been throwing them in the street in the first place, she would never have anything to do with me again. The price you pay sometimes!
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Thanks for sharing I was fixing to try the beer . Not anymore think I will put a frog pond out lol
What about nematodes? I am trying that option now. My beer traps worked some, but not as well as I would like. I didn't use a bowl, though. I used the beer bottle, sideways. Slugs didn't escape much!
Thank you for sharing this information with us. I am also afraid of snakes so they are not an option for me lol
Here in Norway we have an invasive shell-less snail species that has no natural enemies. My goto remedies are to clear underbrush/weeds to limit hiding spots for snails and do a daily perimeter patrol at dusk with a pair of scissors
Yep I do that too, except the scissors lol, I can pick them up and chuck them, but ugh not quite there with cutting them up...yet
We keep a plastic container of table salt or Epsom salt near the front and back door. As we see slugs we cover them in it and they curl up and die. We also toss a tiny bit around the garden and grass and it helps control them. Both the salt and Epsom salt are safe for my dog.
Sluggo works well for me too
Good info. Thanks. However, you were right about most comments being about snakes. You either love them or hate them. I love my garter snakes. I have a large lot with veggies and other plants that slugs love. I have rarely ever seen a slug or snail but I have seen snakes. I protect them vigorously. My pile of grass clippings is especially appealing to them. You would have had a heart attack if you had seen the large snake coming out of it when I tried to turn it. LOL I live in WA and slugs are a real problem.....except for me.
The beer worked real well in my strawberries
Sand or sawdust Is great to spread around as it is too dry for slug but depends on your local climate
I’ve never seen a slug anywhere near my garden so it’s a non issue for me . But I find it interesting there is a You Tube Channel dedicated to slugs. Funny joke about attracting rats to the garden!😂 That’s something I would do!😂
Brian, would you mind if I link in my raised-bed slug prevention video? I use the copper wire and 9V battery option and it works great. Let me know, thanks. One of the best things about spring is that I get the motivation to start watching all your videos, so thank you!
Someone Liked this so I'll assume it was Brian who OK'd this video. It's only useful for raised beds.
th-cam.com/video/cHZBXq5LWJ4/w-d-xo.html
Go to 2:00 to see the slug
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