- Help! Slugs and snails in your Planty Garden
- Pests in your vegetable garden?
- How can you help the bees?
- Pests: aphids to caterpillars in the vegetable garden
- Moss in your MM-Mix?
- Mushrooms in the Planty Garden
- How to identify and get rid of mildew
- Why are my zucchinis falling off?
- Why are my plants turning yellow?
- Cabbage whites and holes in your plants
- How to identify and treat tomato blight
- Make your garden unappealing to slugs
- Garlic spray for slugs
- Make a barrier to keep out slugs and snails
- Slugs: is it impossible to get rid of them?
- How to trap slugs and snails
- How to kill slugs and snails
- Killing slugs: cruel or good?
- Help! Slugs and snails in your Planty Garden
- Pests in your vegetable garden?
- How can you help the bees?
- Pests: aphids to caterpillars in the vegetable garden
- Moss in your MM-Mix?
- Mushrooms in the Planty Garden
- How to identify and get rid of mildew
- Why are my zucchinis falling off?
- Why are my plants turning yellow?
- Cabbage whites and holes in your plants
- How to identify and treat tomato blight
- Make your garden unappealing to slugs
- Garlic spray for slugs
- Make a barrier to keep out slugs and snails
- Slugs: is it impossible to get rid of them?
- How to trap slugs and snails
- How to kill slugs and snails
- Killing slugs: cruel or good?
Luring and trapping slugs and snails
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Catch them in the act early
Slugs eat half of their body weight every day. That's a lot of leaves.
Snails are easier to spot than slugs.
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Baits and lures
So you'll need some super tasty bait.
Let's start with a familiar one:
Beer traps
I've heard from a lot of readers that beer traps really do help.
You can make them yourself from old yogurt containers. You just need the yogurt cup, the lid, and some scissors.
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If all goes according to plan, every morning you'll find dead slugs in the cup. Yup, that's how it works.
Decoy cabbage
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At least, as long as the cabbage is still young. Once the plant is old and tough or starts to flower, the slugs and snails will switch to your lettuces.
Other plants that attract slugs and snails? Carnations, dahlias, and hostas. But sacrificing those beauties is kind of a waste, isn't it?
Galia melon (or other fruit)
"I put a Galia melon rind in the garden after I'd eaten the rest. You don't even want to know how many slugs I found! Every day I collected them, moved them far from my garden, and then I put the melon back. They ate every bit of it until only the very outer shell remained.”
So, I put half a melon rind near one of my plants that kept getting eaten.
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If you're not a melon fan, you can also use halved oranges or grapefruits. Even banana peels work.
Wet newspaper is another option, or a rhubarb leaf: anything they can easily hide under and that you can easily pick them off of.
But. Unfortunately, the container was next to my bok choi. The snail had no problem eating both. I guess the breadcrumbs were just an appetizer.
Cornmeal? Works even better
They eat their fill and then leave your plants alone for a while.
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Put the dish in a different place every day. After 3 days or so you'll catch most of them.
The downside to baiting slugs and snails
If you don't want to kill them - even though organic gardeners say that's the best thing to do - then you have to take them somewhere else.
And you need to pick a place at least 30 meters away from your garden. Otherwise, they'll happily come back the next day.
Create a barrier
I found and tested a few: some work better than others:
Problems
- Help! Slugs and snails in your Planty Garden
- Pests in your vegetable garden?
- How can you help the bees?
- Pests: aphids to caterpillars in the vegetable garden
- Moss in your MM-Mix?
- Mushrooms in the Planty Garden
- How to identify and get rid of mildew
- Why are my zucchinis falling off?
- Why are my plants turning yellow?
- Cabbage whites and holes in your plants
- How to identify and treat tomato blight
- Make your garden unappealing to slugs
- Garlic spray for slugs
- Make a barrier to keep out slugs and snails
- Slugs: is it impossible to get rid of them?
- How to trap slugs and snails
- How to kill slugs and snails
- Killing slugs: cruel or good?