Do you have any natural/organic remedies other than beer for slugs in your garden?
AAAAHHHH!!! They are eating my plants…and beer starts to stink….
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Nov
30
2010
30
2010
AAAAHHHH!!! They are eating my plants…and beer starts to stink….
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Salt
pee.
is priceless
Sprinkle them with sugar when you find them. It dries them up just like salt does, but it’s better for your garden.
Martha Stewart says to coil a piece of copper wire around the base of the plants and they won’t come back. Or, I could send my daughter… she loves them and collects containers of them all summer long much to my dismay…ha ha!
Good luck.
Here’s a webpage with a lot of idea too!
http://www.ghorganics.com/page13.html
I just read about an all natural product you can buy called Sluggo.
You can put out pecan shells. The cracked jagged edge keeps them from crawling over to the plants. They don’t stink and they are a good mulch. You will have to have a pretty good supply of them.
I have tried it around my elephant ear bulbs and it works wonders.
salt is the only thing I know of. If you pour table salt on a slug, they die. I wonder if it would work to put a circle around your plants of salt, I would be curious if that would stop them or not.
ok, the beer thing works but leave the can with small amounts inside for it to crawl into. other than picking it out physically, coarse ground coffee covering the bottom might help. another thing to consider. slug pellets really works very well without affecting plants or animals as long as they are lightly mixed into the soil.
Buy some Diatomaceous earth where pool supplies are sold, or maybe at garden centers, and sprinkle a circle around each plant stem. The slugs will not cross. Or lightly dust the surface of the planting beds after you plant.
It will not harm your soil like salt will
salt is good but will wash away and repeated applications could ruin your plants,, round up some large toads and put them in your garden,, they love the slimeys! also, aluminum sulfate mixed in the soil will dter the boogers,, at any gardening center it is used to acidifiy soil but you can add lime to balance it,,
http://www.motherearthnews.com a long running organic organization
salt, copper and DE (diatomatious earth) all work- for a garden without slugs, plant slug resistant plants.
begonias
California poppies
fuchsias
scented geraniums
impatiens
lantana
nasturtiums
purple robe cup
lavender
rosemary
sage
I don’t think putting salt on the ground will be very good for your plants. But putting salt directly on the slugs apparently works unless you’re a soft-hearted person who isn’t into torturing innocent creatures (even slimy slugs). I used to physically pick them up (with garden tools not fingers) and put them in a packet and tie it up and throw it away. Er .. this is not a one-time job. Couldn’t bring myself to do the salt sizzling thing. I also found that crumpling egg shells around the plant base helped (like the pecan shells thing someone suggested only egg shells are cheaper and also would get composted faster.