- Help! Slugs and snails in your Planty Garden
- Why are my plants turning yellow?
- Pests in your vegetable garden?
- 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?
- Cabbage whites and holes in your plants
- How to identify and treat tomato blight
- How can you help the bees?
- How to trap slugs and snails
- Make your garden unappealing to slugs
- Make a barrier to keep out slugs and snails
- Garlic spray for slugs
- Slugs: is it impossible to get rid of them?
- How to kill slugs and snails
- Killing slugs: cruel or good?
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- Help! Slugs and snails in your Planty Garden
- Why are my plants turning yellow?
- Pests in your vegetable garden?
- 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?
- Cabbage whites and holes in your plants
- How to identify and treat tomato blight
- How can you help the bees?
- How to trap slugs and snails
- Make your garden unappealing to slugs
- Make a barrier to keep out slugs and snails
- Garlic spray for slugs
- Slugs: is it impossible to get rid of them?
- How to kill slugs and snails
- Killing slugs: cruel or good?
Help! Slugs and snails in your Planty Garden
How do you stop slugs and snails in their tracks? Tips for blocking, deterring, and fighting off hordes of slugs and snails. Some tips work better than others 😉
More and more snails
You're seeing more slugs and snails in your garden because:
- There are fewer natural enemies like hedgehogs, blackbirds, toads, and frogs. But even smaller enemies like the ground beetles, spiders, and daddy longlegs are having a tough time these days.
- There are some invasive slug species that reproduce at lightning speed. They crossbreed with native species, so the offspring are even more resistant to the local climate.
Doesn't sound all that great, does it?
Well, there's good news too 🙂
You can protect your vegetables from slugs and snails, but you have to take action. That's what this series is all about.
You can protect your vegetables from slugs and snails, but you have to take action. That's what this series is all about.
How do you protect your plants from slugs?
Just one thing before I start.
Where you live and where your garden boxes are located are the two main factors that determine how many slugs you'll have.
About 20% of people with a Planty Garden here in the Netherlands live in a true slug zone. They have to deal with hundreds of slugs and snails, or more.
In a true slug paradise, you can try all the tips and tricks you like - but they will never be truly effective.
I know because my own Planty Garden is in a slug zone.
Where you live and where your garden boxes are located are the two main factors that determine how many slugs you'll have.
About 20% of people with a Planty Garden here in the Netherlands live in a true slug zone. They have to deal with hundreds of slugs and snails, or more.
In a true slug paradise, you can try all the tips and tricks you like - but they will never be truly effective.
I know because my own Planty Garden is in a slug zone.
Our own product
After years of experimentation and frustration, I developed my own product: the slug fence.
In my humble opinion, it's the only device that really works:
In my humble opinion, it's the only device that really works:
Whether you're dealing with large snails or small slugs: it stops them all.
You can read more about it here.
You can read more about it here.
The other 80%
Fortunately, for 80% of people gardening with us, slugs are not such a big deal.
That means you have a few snails here and there. You can easily catch them or lure them away from your vegetables.
That means you have a few snails here and there. You can easily catch them or lure them away from your vegetables.
If this sounds like you, then the tips I've put together will definitely help.
What can you do yourself?
In short, it comes down to this:
You can do 4 things to help fix your slug problem:
You can do 4 things to help fix your slug problem:
- make your vegetable garden unappealing (to slugs, not you)
- lure them (and use a trap)
- stop them (by putting up barriers)
- kill them
Whatever you do, start as early as possible
Slugs and snails lay insane amounts of eggs - up to 400 (!) at a time. The sooner you take action, the more effective your anti-slug campaign will be. And the less trouble you'll have the rest of the year.
Let's start with the first:
Make your vegetable garden unappealing to slugs and snails
Let's start with the first:
Make your vegetable garden unappealing to slugs and snails
Problems
- Help! Slugs and snails in your Planty Garden
- Why are my plants turning yellow?
- Pests in your vegetable garden?
- 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?
- Cabbage whites and holes in your plants
- How to identify and treat tomato blight
- How can you help the bees?
- How to trap slugs and snails
- Make your garden unappealing to slugs
- Make a barrier to keep out slugs and snails
- Garlic spray for slugs
- Slugs: is it impossible to get rid of them?
- How to kill slugs and snails
- Killing slugs: cruel or good?