All you can do is go out 2 hours after dark and pick them out of your garden. I pull out and squash up to 200 slugs per night at the start of winter. By the end of winter its usually 10 to 20. Good luck!
Hello sister, I'm from Bangladesh. As a gardener, I can feel your excitement and happiness of the first harvest. For slugs and snails, you may use turmeric powder. Mix the powder with water and spray it. Or, you may use "neem cake," if it is available in your country. Mix it with water, rest the mixture for a week, then spray the water. You may also use neem oil, but it is expensive. Mix the oil with water and spray it. Another solution is-- buy some quail birds form market and deploy them as border army. :) I'm giving the plan: you have a fence wall around your garden. Now, make another fence wall with plastic net. The height of the new fence will be around 12+ inches, and the distance of the new fence from the old fence will be 12+ inches. Now, cover the top area with same kind of plastic net. Now, free the quails inside that new structure. They will act as border army in your garden. Don't forget to make a small house for the birds in a corner of your garden. The whole border line structure will be connected with that home from two sides. The quails can guard the border line, eat the outsiders who will try to pass the fence structure and can rest in the house during night, hot sun and rain and can lay eggs there.
What if you tried some brewer's yeast? It's what's used to make beer. It's different to bread yeast, but that's all I know about it. Or if it's the ferment part, you could get a kombucha starter and just keep that well-fed and use that. I'm in Vic and asked on a FB group about where to get one and got one mailed to me by someone up in QLD, so might not even cost you anything to give it a go.
Weedy and messy doesn't matter. (Just look at my garden) If you are growing food it's all good! I'm able to grow all the leafy greens we can eat (and my family) on a suburban block. And yeah, for slugs the "beer trap" works well. Just use bread yeast, sugar, and water. I'd never waste the beer. 😁 Keep on boosting that soil and you'll reap the rewards. Cheers!
I sent a video to your IG that explains the life cycle of those evil cut worms. They make me cry when they ruin my hard work. Hey, I am growing fall radishes! The one thing we can grow in opposite hemispheres! Your's are way better. Yummo!
AN idea that Annmarie Brookman (Grazza's her husband) out at Gawler's Food Forest has for growing anything susceptible to 'stuff' is to plant a row of sacrificial lettuces, don't harvest them, just let the bugs be and have a feed on them rather than the crop you're trying to grow. As for me, I've given up on most brassicas, white butterfly gets them. Grow 10 of each out to seed, also, don't harvest poor performers, let them run to seed- Stun principle- total and utter neglect. Can't remember what the S means at the minute. Persevere. 🙂
Cabbage moth butterfly are controllable with BT spray (organic), but still a bit of a battle. For STUN to be useful in the context of a vegie garden, I think you'd have to be harvesting the seed of those that thrived while being neglected?
Morning Chilli, you ll need more than a few radish to buy your farm with. On a small plot like you have the best income would be to grow soft fruit as is high value and high reward crop and help you buy your farm a bit quicker.
Weedy & messy. That aptly sums up my kiwi garden. Slugs like a damp environment which "may" be provided by the wood sideboards surrounding your garden. They definitely are coming in from the outside. Investing in beer looks to be a good idea, multiple bowls, at least slugs aren't picky so the cheapest 6 pack of beer should work. Still early days for your brassicas just remember they aren't fond of the heat, Tassie's heat isn't as bad as mainland Oz, and as you've already experienced they love to bolt.
@ForestCreatures I've heard frogs come when the ecosystem is just right. They are very sensitive to pollutants, so if you see them, it means you are doing something right. I had them in our previous property. But not in this one yet.
Try a cheap home brew kit, make your own for less and each batch will prob last a season if you dont do 1 glass for the slugs, 1 glass for you ratio lol
cheep aldi beer can lesson the blow cost wise. iv also had success with the double terracotta pot slug trap(s), some youtube vids on how to set them up
Besides the after-dark method mentioned in another comment, there's iron-based organic slug bait at Bunnings. I wish the 'copper' and 'egg shell' recommendations would disappear. So many wasted gardener-hours. I use those as a filter for sources of gardening advice.
I have heard that ducks are good for controlling the slug population if you have the time for them! huw richards on yt has a video on ducks for slug control 👍
Well done!
All you can do is go out 2 hours after dark and pick them out of your garden. I pull out and squash up to 200 slugs per night at the start of winter. By the end of winter its usually 10 to 20. Good luck!
This works! Scissors are a disturbing but quicker way of dealing with them as you find them.
Hi Chilli, instead of beer use water, some sugar and some cheap yeast. works the same as beer but it's very cheap.
Try a few ducks to solve the slug problem. Thats how my brother got rid of his slug problem .
Hello sister, I'm from Bangladesh.
As a gardener, I can feel your excitement and happiness of the first harvest.
For slugs and snails, you may use turmeric powder. Mix the powder with water and spray it. Or, you may use "neem cake," if it is available in your country. Mix it with water, rest the mixture for a week, then spray the water.
You may also use neem oil, but it is expensive. Mix the oil with water and spray it.
Another solution is-- buy some quail birds form market and deploy them as border army. :) I'm giving the plan: you have a fence wall around your garden. Now, make another fence wall with plastic net. The height of the new fence will be around 12+ inches, and the distance of the new fence from the old fence will be 12+ inches. Now, cover the top area with same kind of plastic net. Now, free the quails inside that new structure. They will act as border army in your garden. Don't forget to make a small house for the birds in a corner of your garden. The whole border line structure will be connected with that home from two sides. The quails can guard the border line, eat the outsiders who will try to pass the fence structure and can rest in the house during night, hot sun and rain and can lay eggs there.
@@ArifulIslam-jw1ze Great ideas! Thank you ❤️
The first harvest is always exciting!
What if you tried some brewer's yeast? It's what's used to make beer. It's different to bread yeast, but that's all I know about it.
Or if it's the ferment part, you could get a kombucha starter and just keep that well-fed and use that.
I'm in Vic and asked on a FB group about where to get one and got one mailed to me by someone up in QLD, so might not even cost you anything to give it a go.
@@laurahawkins374 Thanks 😊
I haven't tried it personally, but I've heard a barrier of kitty litter will keep them out.
Ravishing radishes indeed!
Delicious radishes!!! And naughty slugs 🤯🐌 Someone commented yeasty sugar water....sounds like a great idea to test.
Iron chelates snail pellets are the best thing to use. Animal friendly and they break down into fertiliser
My son harvested his Easter Egg variety of radishes. They are delishes and grow fast. For the slugs I use diatomaceous earth. Well done to you. 😊
@staffylover1950 Omg! I didn't think about that! That's a good idea.
make ginger beer , probably cheaper than buying beer
Greetings from Africa God bless your farm 🎉
@@dijiola7127 Hey! 👋 Where in Africa?
@chillidonela Cote d'ivoire, abidjan
Weedy and messy doesn't matter. (Just look at my garden) If you are growing food it's all good!
I'm able to grow all the leafy greens we can eat (and my family) on a suburban block.
And yeah, for slugs the "beer trap" works well. Just use bread yeast, sugar, and water. I'd never waste the beer. 😁
Keep on boosting that soil and you'll reap the rewards. Cheers!
Sounds a waste of good beer. Maybe raised beds and some netting?
Would do raised beds if it was our own property. But for now, I just have to deal with the slugs.
I sent a video to your IG that explains the life cycle of those evil cut worms. They make me cry when they ruin my hard work. Hey, I am growing fall radishes! The one thing we can grow in opposite hemispheres! Your's are way better. Yummo!
Oh yes, it can be disheartening. Thanks for the link. I test it out 👍
AN idea that Annmarie Brookman (Grazza's her husband) out at Gawler's Food Forest has for growing anything susceptible to 'stuff' is to plant a row of sacrificial lettuces, don't harvest them, just let the bugs be and have a feed on them rather than the crop you're trying to grow.
As for me, I've given up on most brassicas, white butterfly gets them.
Grow 10 of each out to seed, also, don't harvest poor performers, let them run to seed- Stun principle- total and utter neglect. Can't remember what the S means at the minute.
Persevere. 🙂
Cabbage moth butterfly are controllable with BT spray (organic), but still a bit of a battle.
For STUN to be useful in the context of a vegie garden, I think you'd have to be harvesting the seed of those that thrived while being neglected?
Morning Chilli, you ll need more than a few radish to buy your farm with. On a small plot like you have the best income would be to grow soft fruit as is high value and high reward crop and help you buy your farm a bit quicker.
Weedy & messy. That aptly sums up my kiwi garden.
Slugs like a damp environment which "may" be provided by the wood sideboards surrounding your garden. They definitely are coming in from the outside. Investing in beer looks to be a good idea, multiple bowls, at least slugs aren't picky so the cheapest 6 pack of beer should work.
Still early days for your brassicas just remember they aren't fond of the heat, Tassie's heat isn't as bad as mainland Oz, and as you've already experienced they love to bolt.
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Frogs can help take care of slugs and snails!
@ForestCreatures I've heard frogs come when the ecosystem is just right. They are very sensitive to pollutants, so if you see them, it means you are doing something right. I had them in our previous property. But not in this one yet.
cover the weedy areas with cardboard and if you have it, 5cm of compost.
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Check electric fence for slugs :)
Very tiny ones 😂
Try a cheap home brew kit, make your own for less and each batch will prob last a season if you dont do 1 glass for the slugs, 1 glass for you ratio lol
cheep aldi beer can lesson the blow cost wise.
iv also had success with the double terracotta pot slug trap(s), some youtube vids on how to set them up
Thanks! I'll check it out 👍
Besides the after-dark method mentioned in another comment, there's iron-based organic slug bait at Bunnings.
I wish the 'copper' and 'egg shell' recommendations would disappear. So many wasted gardener-hours. I use those as a filter for sources of gardening advice.
I have heard that ducks are good for controlling the slug population if you have the time for them! huw richards on yt has a video on ducks for slug control 👍
@rirr2 Yesss, I have heard this, too! Ducks are awesome. I guess I'll be needing to hatch a few. 😁
A slugs life...
Let us know how the Black ones Taste
Super duper spicy... I almost died 😂
Salt perimeter🤷♂
Maybe... its worth a try 👍
G'day Chilli, maybe try experimenting using bread yeast in some sugar water to see if that works definitely cheaper than beer. God bless you.🦘👍
Thanks! I'll give it a try 👍
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