- 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?
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- 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?
Make your garden less attractive to slugs and snails
Choose the right plants for your vegetable garden. Depending on what you pick, you'll either attract or deter snails.
The good news is that slugs and snails aren't as attracted to a Planty Garden. They like traditional gardens a lot better.
But. If you live in a true snail zone, that won't help much.
The good news is that slugs and snails aren't as attracted to a Planty Garden. They like traditional gardens a lot better.
But. If you live in a true snail zone, that won't help much.
If you only see a few snails here and there, they won't cause as many problems in your Planty Garden as they would in a regular garden.
That's thanks to a few aspects of the Planty system:
That's thanks to a few aspects of the Planty system:
Everything mixed together
In the Planty Garden, your garden box is full of different kinds of vegetables, herbs, and flowers.
It has of plants slugs and snails love, but also plants they hate.
The smell of the plants they hate acts as a deterrent. So they won't be as interested in your garden box.
The smell of the plants they hate acts as a deterrent. So they won't be as interested in your garden box.
Snails smell extremely well
And they really dislike certain odors.
So, plant some fragrant things in your garden box that they hate: like mint, fennel, geraniums, garlic, thyme, marigolds, and foxglove.
So, plant some fragrant things in your garden box that they hate: like mint, fennel, geraniums, garlic, thyme, marigolds, and foxglove.
But if there's a huge slug infestation, that won't be enough.
So, spray their favorite plants with something that they think stinks:
So, spray their favorite plants with something that they think stinks:
Here's my recipe for a homemade garlic spray.
Dry surfaces and rough terrain
It's a good thing the top layer of the MM-Mix stays pretty dry. Snails and slugs don't like that at all.
But if it rains a lot, you've lost your advantage.
You can also make the area around your garden boxes less accessible to critters.
Our garden boxes have wood chips all around them. That helps - a little.
But if it rains a lot, you've lost your advantage.
You can also make the area around your garden boxes less accessible to critters.
Our garden boxes have wood chips all around them. That helps - a little.
Surrounding your boxes with gravel or shells works even better. A snail won't crawl over that unless it absolutely has to.
Keep an eye on your plants
When you water your plants at the base, you don't water the whole patch. You water each plant, one by one.
That's how you check on each individual plant. And can spot snails quickly.
But again, it rains for weeks, you lose the advantage. You skip the watering and the snails enjoy all the wetness.
Lucky for you, the app helps you remember to go snail hunting 😉
That's how you check on each individual plant. And can spot snails quickly.
But again, it rains for weeks, you lose the advantage. You skip the watering and the snails enjoy all the wetness.
Lucky for you, the app helps you remember to go snail hunting 😉
Spot the snail
As soon as you see signs of damage, go hunt for the culprit. The earlier you intervene, the less damage.
Where to look? Slugs and snails hide in the dark during the day. They like out-of-the way, damp places.
Where to look? Slugs and snails hide in the dark during the day. They like out-of-the way, damp places.
Dark loose-leaf lettuce is an ideal hiding place for snails. Even though they rarely eat the lettuce itself.
Keep it clean
Slugs and snails prefer young plants, cabbage leaves, your best lettuce heads, and old leaves or half-decayed ones.
So you'll want to get rid of yellow and shriveled leaves right away.
On to the next tip:
Baiting and catching snails
So you'll want to get rid of yellow and shriveled leaves right away.
On to the next tip:
Baiting and catching snails
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?