I peel and boil garlic cloves - bulbs are cheap in Aldi. I sieve the liquid through a fine net then put into into my spray - the longer it stands the stronger it gets. I spray this on hostas - slugs hate it and leave
Garlic water is great but why boiling the garlic? Boiling it diminishes its strengths. What I efficiently do is to blend garlic 🧄 as is (without peeling it because the peel is also garlicky, only removing the tip and the little inner stem) then blend it with water: 1 big 🧄 at 1.5 L water. Then filtering it through a cheese cloth, then pouring it in a spray bottle and also add around 2 tbsp dishwash soap (ALDI has organic dishsoap). This soap makes the garlic sticks on the plants. I spray not only the herbs but everything including the lemon trees to avoid the scary bugs. I didn’t know about garlic water before and one of my lemon trees got covered in black dew and lots of scale as I had to cut the tree back and wash it with brushes and organic dishsoap. Now the leaves regrew and looks healthy. The leftover garlic water is safely kept in the jar in the fridge for about 2-3 weeks and respray the plants after rain which is washing off the garlic. I usually respray once a month if not raining, otherwise after each big rain (the large plants and trees) but the herbs almost daily after 5 pm to stay safe overnight. Avoid any flowers the plants may have to allow the bees to come and pollinate. If flowers covered in garlic, bees don’t like. Hope this helps as well 😊
While garlic sprays do work quite well, rain or even a heavy dew will wash it right off. If you live in a wet climate, li,e I do, you will find yoursef spraying every day and STILL the slugs keep coming ...
@@wemuk5170 I have been spraying daily at around 7 - 8pm with 'garlic water'. I also use organic (safe for birds and other wildlife) slug pellets, AND have 'slug pubs'. So far this year, I have had very little slug damage, so I think that what I'm doing is working. I am also in the UK, in northwest England so a LOT more rain than London!
Last yesterday I harvested my Kohlrabi and use the leaf to trap the slugs. I put the leafs on the soil and yesterday was hard rain and normally they work earlier cause the garden was wet. I collected more 30 slugs yesterday. Last year I can't crop cause hundred slug. This year it look better.
No need to buy beer! They go to it because of the yeast in the beer. That's what attracts them!! Take one cup of water, 2 teaspoons of sugar and 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of yeast. Regular yeast like you use to make breads with. Works just as good as the beer!! I use it myself!!! 😊
I liked your tip. You can use dirty cat or dog food cans to catch slugs, so you don't need to buy beer. Or you can use any smelly food. Using lime can be a problem if your soil is alkaline. I will experiment with diatomaceous earth and sulfur. Sulfur is good for alkaline soil.
Ashes from fired woods or charcoals are also effective. Just broadcast them on the periphery as that of lime. If you also have carbonized husks/hulls it could help as well. Cheers everyone!
You should show a beer trap that works in rainy climates where it is needed most! Rain would dilute it so it needs a cover of some sort. Also beer is not needed, so maybe try one with yeast! Ideas for another video!
So make cover then! These need to be replaced every few days by the way. Once full of slugs they need to be dumped. Use common sense and making a cover. A smaller container in the ground with beer then a larger cover (top of bottle with cap on it) over smaller container. Cut off edges of the outer cover to make 4 legs the legs can be long enough to sink into the ground but still have space so the slugs can get in with ease. Its not rocket science.
Instead of a open container use a whole bottle. Cut the sides of the top off leaving just enough to hold the top on then place a cheap little cup ontop of the lid. It'll be open enough to let the smell out to attract the slugs and they can still climb in while the loose cup keeps the rain out like a umbrella... I'm just guessing it'll work.😅 it's worth a try
I can buy slug traps, which have a little roof which keeps the rain out but allows slugs to crawl in easily, at £1.25 for a pack of 2, in my local town. I have several around the edges of my raised bed; some have beer in and some have yeast, water and sugar. I find the beer-filled ones seem to catch slugs better than the yeast ones. I live in a _very_ wet climate.
If you don't have or want to buy lime, eggshells are also a good way to prevent slugs from going after certain plants! I also tried scrubbing my pans with eggshell powder for the first time while making my YT video and I was SHOOK at the results! 🙌
Lime is calcium carbonate, thus a chemical. We let our chickens into the garden and they love slugs because they are easier for them to eat than snails but they soon get wiped out when the slug supply runs out. Some of the plants we have to cover with reusable netting because the chooks will eat them as well.
You can get rid of them without killing them. What you need to do is use Diatomaceous Earth Food Grade Mineral powder instead of lime. You will use the method in the same video and pour D.E.F.G.M powder instead of lime. It works 100%. Moreover, they do not die; when they come to the dust, it seems that the dust hurts their stomachs, so they do not move forward and turn back. The method he used to prevent the powder from getting wet in this video is very good. I will apply the same. Thank you.
@@Caelestiia I'm so sorry to hear this because it really works for me too. I apply it when the plants are very small. I am careful not to wet the dust when watering. I stop the application after the plants grow a little. It is a bit difficult until I reach this stage, but I can save the plants this way.🌸
Honestly, sounds too easy but slugs and snails love cat biscuits. Throw a small handful of them in your garden each week and they'll eat those and leave your plants alone! If you don't believe me, just leave a line of biscuits where slugs are a problem and go take a look at night.
How about white flies? They lay eggs that travel all around the leaves of everything. I pull the leaves off but no use. I have tried natural and chemical insecticide.
Diatonaceous earth is harmless and chemical free. Works well on both slugs, snails and ants. Some diatonaceous earth, some brands, are rain proof for up to 6 weeks.
@franceswatts4001 I cannot remember the brand name, but I get it from Canadian Tire Stores. It comes in a tall cylindrical plastic container orange and white for around $9.99
You may've seen a lot of slugs in your garden, but that's not slug damage - it's caterpillars. Most slugs are detritivores (they eat damaged & decaying plant matter, & not living plants). If you see slugs in your cabbages, they are generally sheltering inhospitable weather conditions, eating the damaged part of your crop, or starving because you've cocked up your garden's ecosystem by keeping things 'tidy' & removing all the leaf litter from around the crop (I notice your soil is bare - soil should never ever be left bare to bake in the sun or have its nutrients washed away with the rain). So, congratulations. Instead of doing a bit of research, you've basically just told everyone how to kill one of their soil's most beneficial inverts.
Cucumbers in our area are attacked only by aphids. against it, plants can be treated with a composition of baking soda with laundry soap or ammonia with laundry soap.
@@natureswildplayground A cordless dust buster is my go to. Been battling them for years (the yellow and black striped as well as the spotted type.) I did notice this year by delaying the plantings of cucurbits it kept the numbers low. It seems to me that they like to pick a location early in the season and stick to it. If you can wait until after that happens then you will only get the occasional visitor, which can easily be vacuumed up.
@@toddallen7862 thank you it’s a great idea I will have to invest in one and feed them to my chickens my garden is big for my yard and packed full thanks a bunch
Ya think beer traps are good but theres a downfall they attract the slugs from outside into ur garden lime and chilli powdwer works great but no good if ur area gets planty of rain best option is to ho out at night n pick them n itll get the population down to where ya wont see much damage as ya used too i know ya can spray with garlic water n that but ya dont want everything smelling of garlic either to be honest
70 grm of copper sulphate mixed with 5 ltrs water. Spray where you do not want slugs or snails. They just dissolve, and plants use copper sulphate. I was plagued with them and tried this method wors wonders. Also sprayed on outside of pots which when dried formed a barrier similar to a copper band.
I purchased this item and was extremely disappointed. I reported that one of them didn’t work. They responded with a message that I could return it but I was responsible for paying the cost of the return.. FYI, I ORDERED 2, and they simply didn’t do the trick. This is simply my experience. Maybe yours will be different.
You could put glue on plastic and and sprinkle som salt on to the plastic then when dry place it around your raised bed wit some rocks and the snails will dry out if they walk there sea salt is best
You can feed them to the chickens but if you just release the chickens into the garden, they peck and scratch indiscriminately and will destroy your garden. They also don't just stop at eating slugs because they also like cabbage and other greenery.
Lime is terrible for the soil even if it was considered as positive is some circonstances, that's wrong and your are in the process to the desert as it has been in the mediteraneen place.
Et puis dire : sans produits chimiques pour mettre de la chaux... ben la chaux c'est un produit chimique... et c'est totalement létal pour les limaces...
The most effective way is SEA SALT in the ground before planting and once your cabbage grows sprinkle salt over them. The salt kills the slug immediately.
No need to buy beer! They go to it because of the yeast in the beer. That's what attracts them!! Take one cup of water, 2 teaspoons of sugar and 1/2 teaspoon of yeast. Regular yeast like you use to make breads with. Works just as good as s beer!! I use it myself!!! I change mine out every few days or so. If it seems like a heir slowing down on coming to it, then put some new out.
I wish it was this easy to get rid of slugs in Congress.
Starting with 3TMTG.
All MAGA!
MAGA club ok to return to the cave, painting is dry .
Funnee😀
Rats?
Best methode i’veever seen on youtube. You are the best! 😊
I peel and boil garlic cloves - bulbs are cheap in Aldi. I sieve the liquid through a fine net then put into into my spray - the longer it stands the stronger it gets. I spray this on hostas - slugs hate it and leave
Sounds good - much better than those cruel methods. I think i’ll try it. Is the sieving necessary? Probably ok if a few bit of garlic are left, no?
Garlic water is great but why boiling the garlic? Boiling it diminishes its strengths. What I efficiently do is to blend garlic 🧄 as is (without peeling it because the peel is also garlicky, only removing the tip and the little inner stem) then blend it with water: 1 big 🧄 at 1.5 L water. Then filtering it through a cheese cloth, then pouring it in a spray bottle and also add around 2 tbsp dishwash soap (ALDI has organic dishsoap). This soap makes the garlic sticks on the plants. I spray not only the herbs but everything including the lemon trees to avoid the scary bugs. I didn’t know about garlic water before and one of my lemon trees got covered in black dew and lots of scale as I had to cut the tree back and wash it with brushes and organic dishsoap. Now the leaves regrew and looks healthy. The leftover garlic water is safely kept in the jar in the fridge for about 2-3 weeks and respray the plants after rain which is washing off the garlic. I usually respray once a month if not raining, otherwise after each big rain (the large plants and trees) but the herbs almost daily after 5 pm to stay safe overnight. Avoid any flowers the plants may have to allow the bees to come and pollinate. If flowers covered in garlic, bees don’t like. Hope this helps as well 😊
While garlic sprays do work quite well, rain or even a heavy dew will wash it right off. If you live in a wet climate, li,e I do, you will find yoursef spraying every day and STILL the slugs keep coming ...
@@Sine-gl9ly Unfortunately what you have said is true. In London (UK) it rains a lot in spring.
@@wemuk5170 I have been spraying daily at around 7 - 8pm with 'garlic water'. I also use organic (safe for birds and other wildlife) slug pellets, AND have 'slug pubs'. So far this year, I have had very little slug damage, so I think that what I'm doing is working. I am also in the UK, in northwest England so a LOT more rain than London!
Last yesterday I harvested my Kohlrabi and use the leaf to trap the slugs. I put the leafs on the soil and yesterday was hard rain and normally they work earlier cause the garden was wet. I collected more 30 slugs yesterday. Last year I can't crop cause hundred slug. This year it look better.
Surely, very useful video, all methods are effective and applicable, thank you
No need to buy beer! They go to it because of the yeast in the beer. That's what attracts them!! Take one cup of water, 2 teaspoons of sugar and 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of yeast. Regular yeast like you use to make breads with. Works just as good as the beer!! I use it myself!!! 😊
I liked your tip. You can use dirty cat or dog food cans to catch slugs, so you don't need to buy beer. Or you can use any smelly food. Using lime can be a problem if your soil is alkaline. I will experiment with diatomaceous earth and sulfur. Sulfur is good for alkaline soil.
Gonna use lime. Thanks.
Yeast in water works just as well and is not as expensive or wasteful.
Yeast costs more than Budlight😂
Ashes from fired woods or charcoals are also effective. Just broadcast them on the periphery as that of lime. If you also have carbonized husks/hulls it could help as well. Cheers everyone!
Don’t like AI doing voice overs
Thank you for sharing, I really hate snails, they always eat my vegetable leaves, even though the plants are still very small❤
Great idea..didnt know u could use lime..ive been using diatomaceous earth..will try lime..
Be a bit cheaper!
Does DE work???
@@mercedesbenzs600bash no the de does not work. It isn’t designed to kill slugs. I know from experience and from researching
You should show a beer trap that works in rainy climates where it is needed most! Rain would dilute it so it needs a cover of some sort. Also beer is not needed, so maybe try one with yeast! Ideas for another video!
So make cover then! These need to be replaced every few days by the way. Once full of slugs they need to be dumped. Use common sense and making a cover. A smaller container in the ground with beer then a larger cover (top of bottle with cap on it) over smaller container. Cut off edges of the outer cover to make 4 legs the legs can be long enough to sink into the ground but still have space so the slugs can get in with ease. Its not rocket science.
Instead of a open container use a whole bottle. Cut the sides of the top off leaving just enough to hold the top on then place a cheap little cup ontop of the lid. It'll be open enough to let the smell out to attract the slugs and they can still climb in while the loose cup keeps the rain out like a umbrella... I'm just guessing it'll work.😅 it's worth a try
I can buy slug traps, which have a little roof which keeps the rain out but allows slugs to crawl in easily, at £1.25 for a pack of 2, in my local town. I have several around the edges of my raised bed; some have beer in and some have yeast, water and sugar. I find the beer-filled ones seem to catch slugs better than the yeast ones. I live in a _very_ wet climate.
I tried your methods all three ways and they work great. I will continue to do these instructions till the slugs are all gone.
If you don't have or want to buy lime, eggshells are also a good way to prevent slugs from going after certain plants! I also tried scrubbing my pans with eggshell powder for the first time while making my YT video and I was SHOOK at the results! 🙌
Lime is calcium carbonate, thus a chemical. We let our chickens into the garden and they love slugs because they are easier for them to eat than snails but they soon get wiped out when the slug supply runs out. Some of the plants we have to cover with reusable netting because the chooks will eat them as well.
You can get rid of them without killing them. What you need to do is use Diatomaceous Earth Food Grade Mineral powder instead of lime.
You will use the method in the same video and pour D.E.F.G.M powder instead of lime. It works 100%. Moreover, they do not die; when they come to the dust, it seems that the dust hurts their stomachs, so they do not move forward and turn back.
The method he used to prevent the powder from getting wet in this video is very good. I will apply the same. Thank you.
It won't have a chance here in England! It rains every day!
@@Caelestiia I'm so sorry to hear this because it really works for me too.
I apply it when the plants are very small. I am careful not to wet the dust when watering.
I stop the application after the plants grow a little.
It is a bit difficult until I reach this stage, but I can save the plants this way.🌸
Wow that's is really good idear, thank you for that, I'll try to my garden
Thank you for sharing this information
God bless you and your family.
Sprinkling used coffee grounds around your plants also kills slugs and snails
Have to check acidity of soil afterwards
Not in my experience. There is very little caffeine left in used coffee grounds which is what deters slugs.
In my experience it doesn't have any effect at all. It just looks ugly.
So, if coffee makes the soil acidic and the lime makes the soil alkaline, then we can alternate them and balance the ph of the soil (?)
Honestly, sounds too easy but slugs and snails love cat biscuits. Throw a small handful of them in your garden each week and they'll eat those and leave your plants alone! If you don't believe me, just leave a line of biscuits where slugs are a problem and go take a look at night.
Can I use baking powder instead .
The man said Lyme..
Are the slugs edible escargot is great can the slugs be used for fertilizer or fishing bait
yes, slugs areedible. I personally dont care for them. Yuck
Hi there what a great 👍 to get rid of those pesky that happened to one of my cabbages David 👌🇬🇧❤️👍
I wish you wouldn't use a speech synth.
It really is the pits
I dislike it too!
Robot voice .
For long term control without constant work I would recommend using nematodes. Very effective
How about white flies? They lay eggs that travel all around the leaves of everything. I pull the leaves off but no use. I have tried natural and chemical insecticide.
Neem oil ... Castile soap
@@jazzkardasz8576 I'll try thanks
Use yellow sticky pads around your plants,
Where can I buy the lime powder
Diatonaceous earth is harmless and chemical free. Works well on both slugs, snails and ants. Some diatonaceous earth, some brands, are rain proof for up to 6 weeks.
Really? Do you have a link for those brands, because I have never found any that are water resistant.
@franceswatts4001
I cannot remember the brand name, but I get it from Canadian Tire Stores. It comes in a tall cylindrical plastic container orange and white for around $9.99
@@randyhuke3773 ah! Thanks, I am in the UK.
Does your ground method work if you are using 'Landscape Fabric' around your beds?
Why not lay lime around the outside of your raised garden on the ground?
Exactly what I was thinking...
I use sand around the edges
Is this video voice over AI produced?
I bet you didn’t know there was a gardening robot!
Copper works great
Copper what exactly???
❤❤❤❤❤I enjoy watching this video thanks ❤❤❤❤
I use Electroculture and few ducks and chicks in the garden , and no more slugs around.
How often should a new beer bait be placed...meaning should I change the beer daily? Thanks.
Pleas what can I do for grasshopper attacks?
You may've seen a lot of slugs in your garden, but that's not slug damage - it's caterpillars. Most slugs are detritivores (they eat damaged & decaying plant matter, & not living plants). If you see slugs in your cabbages, they are generally sheltering inhospitable weather conditions, eating the damaged part of your crop, or starving because you've cocked up your garden's ecosystem by keeping things 'tidy' & removing all the leaf litter from around the crop (I notice your soil is bare - soil should never ever be left bare to bake in the sun or have its nutrients washed away with the rain).
So, congratulations. Instead of doing a bit of research, you've basically just told everyone how to kill one of their soil's most beneficial inverts.
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Pl suggest how to get rid off milipedes which are over populated
I use wood ash instead of lime. I tried beer 🍻 but it attracted so many slugs from the neighborhood to join the party 😉
Do you have a way to remove a lot of cucumber beetles
Cucumbers in our area are attacked only by aphids. against it, plants can be treated with a composition of baking soda with laundry soap or ammonia with laundry soap.
@@amazinggarden thank you
@@natureswildplayground A cordless dust buster is my go to. Been battling them for years (the yellow and black striped as well as the spotted type.) I did notice this year by delaying the plantings of cucurbits it kept the numbers low. It seems to me that they like to pick a location early in the season and stick to it. If you can wait until after that happens then you will only get the occasional visitor, which can easily be vacuumed up.
@@toddallen7862 thank you it’s a great idea I will have to invest in one and feed them to my chickens my garden is big for my yard and packed full thanks a bunch
Diatomaceous earth around base of plant is great...just like the lime..reapply after rain..
I sprinkle Epsom salts around my Hosta ,crawling over salt burns them
We have them when collecting in 1,5 kg a night.
What did they do in the medival times ? No headlight available.
Ya think beer traps are good but theres a downfall they attract the slugs from outside into ur garden lime and chilli powdwer works great but no good if ur area gets planty of rain best option is to ho out at night n pick them n itll get the population down to where ya wont see much damage as ya used too i know ya can spray with garlic water n that but ya dont want everything smelling of garlic either to be honest
Was your mom a robot ?
I can never understand why it is not a normal voice!
What speech system is he using? It sounds quite good
I use salt
How about baking soda by the way I don’t know where to buy the lime
Diatomaceous earth will have the same effect. Get food grade if you have pets. Its cheap and effective
You can buy lime at the garden centre
Google it...
I use scissor to cut them in half
Some people???
Any other option in place of beer?
Moscovy ducks goes J. Wick on slugs..
I prefer deterring rather than killing. Slug deterring methods on my channel.
Heard coffee grinds work. So far so good.
Just gey some BT and be done with it. Way more work than needed
What is BT?
I tried lime it didn't work I'll try lemon next.
Garlic spray is pretty good, but you have to respray after a shower.
Limestone
70 grm of copper sulphate mixed with 5 ltrs water. Spray where you do not want slugs or snails. They just dissolve, and plants use copper sulphate. I was plagued with them and tried this method wors wonders. Also sprayed on outside of pots which when dried formed a barrier similar to a copper band.
I purchased this item and was extremely disappointed. I reported that one of them didn’t work. They responded with a message that I could return it but I was responsible for paying the cost of the return.. FYI, I ORDERED 2, and they simply didn’t do the trick. This is simply my experience. Maybe yours will be different.
What item did you buy? Line, beer, ???
How do you use yeast,i can see it's cheaper and easily bought in shops
My chickens won’t eat them.
They are not tasty I presume😂😂😂
If your chickens don’t earn their keep, then…. 😂😂😂
My girls wont touch slugs. They go nuts for worms and cut worms🤣
It rains every day
Just use a non ETDA iron phosphate pellet
Si c'est humide, ça ne fonctionne pas... et si ce n'est pas humide, il n'y a pas de limaces... du coup...
Don’t like to be cruel to slugs although I hate them
Informative, but i won't like AI soundtracks, only humans!
I agree!!
What is lime?
Ha ha OMG ask google there are two kinds of lime by the way.
@@cindys.w.8566 hahaha I can see someone creating a circle of limes around their brassicas
You could put glue on plastic and and sprinkle som salt on to the plastic then when dry place it around your raised bed wit some rocks and the snails will dry out if they walk there sea salt is best
Yes but you forgot that the white moth lays the eggs on the leaves (after flying through the air to get to them)
Why not get some chickens to eat them?
You can feed them to the chickens but if you just release the chickens into the garden, they peck and scratch indiscriminately and will destroy your garden. They also don't just stop at eating slugs because they also like cabbage and other greenery.
lol - chickens will eat way more than the slugs😂😂😂
Lime is terrible for the soil even if it was considered as positive is some circonstances, that's wrong and your are in the process to the desert as it has been in the mediteraneen place.
I do not want to give any creature “burns incompatible with life.”
Salt!!
I don't think it's good for the soil...
Just keep using the lyme,no beer traps are really necessary...
Use seven dust
Lime is a chemical - it's calcium hydroxide.
❤❤❤
Stuid advice just asking for them to come to the bar
What is lime?
An AI that destroys slugs.
Lime hurts pets ... Can irritate your skin
Not listening to a computer generated voice. No real person speaks like this.
Lol I will get my advice from a real person
People bro😮😮😮
why ai generated voice?
"some slugs don't drink the beer so therefore we conclude that it is best to get rid of slugs". ffs
I wish I could see them drunk 😊 thanks for sharing
Et puis dire : sans produits chimiques pour mettre de la chaux... ben la chaux c'est un produit chimique... et c'est totalement létal pour les limaces...
Why is he talking like a robot?😅
translated to voice over
The most effective way is SEA SALT in the ground before planting and once your cabbage grows sprinkle salt over them. The salt kills the slug immediately.
So bad for soil
Hey a use for queer beer Bud Light !
Naw... they can keep that
Even slugs deserve better than that ;)
Thanks for the big belly laugh!
Yes the only use for it😂
CABBAGES IN A POLYTUNEL ISSTUPIDDO
1/2 and 1/2 vinegar/water sprayed will kill slugs and snails on contact.
Beer is an invitation for every sluc in the neighborhood. So no thank you.😒
Lime is a chemical!
Limestone is a mineral
Channel 1. Uses annoying AI voice program &, worse yet, 2. gave a “♥️” to a comment that included hate speech/ slur.
That’s enough for me 👎
Is this AI talking or a real person. It sounds like a computer-generated voice. The information is interesting but the voice is very boring.
Use a real voice, i refuse to listen to computer voices
I really like the computer generated voice…not.
Circle of smashed glass ,,,end of slugs ,snails ,,,👍
How often should a new beer bait be placed...meaning should I change the beer daily? Thanks.
How often should a new beer bait be placed...meaning should I change the beer daily? Thanks.
No need to buy beer! They go to it because of the yeast in the beer. That's what attracts them!! Take one cup of water, 2 teaspoons of sugar and 1/2 teaspoon of yeast. Regular yeast like you use to make breads with. Works just as good as s beer!! I use it myself!!! I change mine out every few days or so. If it seems like a heir slowing down on coming to it, then put some new out.