When I was a child our neighbor had a big garden. He would pay all the neighborhood children one penny per slug. We would all go every day to check for slugs and put them into plastic bags to take to the house and collect our money. Ten slugs would get you an ice lolly/popsicle from the store. Happy memories. Looking back I think that guy was a genius. No slugs and he was so popular with the kids.
Here in Canada we have had slug problems too, in years past. We had good luck collecting them with a small plate of beer set out at night, right in the soil. In the morning the plate is full of slugs which can be dumped out and crushed on the road. The beer can be re-used in the plate next night, if you separate it from the slugs into a container. The birds took care of the road mess. Might work for you, as long as slugs in Belgium like beer...8^) Let's hope so. Cheers! PS for the heavy angle steel cutting - can you rent or borrow a plasma cutter? That is the least tiring and fastest way to do heavy cuts in steel. Does use some electricity, but so does making 426 grinding disks, and running a saw motor to wear them out!
I say do it all, beer in jars, ground egg shells, diatomaceous earth, metal barriers and salt. We sprinkle salt on any hard surface where ever we see them. Good luck and good eating.
Yes,,we tried bowls of beer,,it worked pretty well. We also put orange or melon halves upside down on the soil (like a house) and the slugs would gather under there at night so you could easily remove them in the early morning.
a easy way to get rid of slugs without chemicals is to put some beer into jar lids or saucers and place them on the soil. all the slugs will go for the beer and will drown ad die. using the beer also gives you a good excuse to try more lol. the plants look so healthy and strong. hope your fish are doing better
THIS ⬆⬆⬆ But keep them fenced in the pasture, away from the pond. You want a breed that can't fly, like a Pekin or runner duck, then your fence will be hidden in the tall grass. Mage sure to fence off your little boardwalk and patio, as well. And you will also get eggs!
Slugs love beer. Make a beer trap. Bury a can or dish even with top of soil. Add a little beer and here come the slugs. Change it every day. It will be full. I place one outside the raised beds and one or two inside bed. Your garden area is beautiful.
If more people would adopt a "don't give up doing good" attitude like you have the world would be a better place. "Let's do this" for betterment of the world would do everyone some good. Your gardens look great despite the slugs.
I used to have a terrible problem with slugs! “You can tell the difference between a flower and a weed, because the slugs only eat the plants you want to keep!” For many years I struggled. Now? No problem! Zero slugs in my garden. I moved to a climate where there are no slugs. 😂👍🏼
You may be pasted the need for cutting thick metal, but my recommendation would be getting a metal chop saw, as opposed to the abrasive disk saw you have. I have an abrasive disk saw, myself, and since I got my cold cut saw, it has both started collecting dust and stop producing dust. I got a very affordable Evolution metal chop saw and never looked back. It produces fast, dustless, cold to the touch, cuts with its long lasting, carbide tipped saw blades. The cuts come out super clean, with no need to clean up and instead of the incredibly messy dust, it produces metal chips, that are much easier to contain. Just a suggestion for the future.
As well as the beer solution, you can sprinkle your coffee grounds on the soil. Also, save your egg shells and break into small pieces, put around your plants. And finally: put some rubber gloves on, take a torch, and go in the evening to pick the slugs off by hand. Oh - and you can get strips of copper to fix around the outside of the the plant boxes. Makes a barrier that they don't like 🤷
We use food grade Diatomaceous Earth and sprinkle all around our plants. The internet says it doesn't kill them, just slows them down, but I have noticed a big difference, especially when I spread it on the wood planer box rails as well.
Yes, food grade D.E. is another good thing to use. Get a big shaker bottle, like an empty steak seasoning container with a shaker top, or an empty Parmesan cheese shaker bottle. Keep it filled and handy to dust the soil under plants and even on the plants. Just be sure to not dust the blooms so as not to harm pollinators. When filling your shaker bottle, don’t breathe in the D.E. dust.
This is what I use and it works well. I buy the brand sluggo. For years I had such trouble trying to grow fruits and vegetables. I couldn't figure out what was eating the plants. It turned out I had tiny slugs. Started to use sluggo and I could finally grow food in the garden.
If you sprinkle crushed egg shells around plants the slugs and snails don’t like the cutting edges and won’t bother the plants. It really works. Just save eggshells, rinse them off before crushing, and use on your plants.
Egg shells wash away in the rain. Go to the fishmonger and ask for oyster and scallop shells. Crush those up and put around the plants and or beds. They last a lot longer, are sharper and stay where you put them.
For slugs or snails, try a low dish on the ground by your plants half filled with beer. Everything looks great. Remember that things tucked away in your green houses won't be accessible to pollinators unless those doors are open.
You guys inspired me to build my own raised bed. I've been keeping it simple and am growing lettuce, spinach, onion... but it's very satisfying to seee it growing and harvest. Next year I will try to build a greenhouse like you and grow tomatoes
I can confirm with many of the other posters, that plates of beer around the garden areas helps as well as diatomaceous earth around the perimeter of the plants.
Your gardens are so pretty! Such hard work. Beer put in lids so the slugs fall in, nicotine from cigarettes or chewing tobacco work for slugs. We used diatomaceous earth in all the greenhouses I worked in as it is safe for your garden it comes in bags in your garden centers. It shreds the outside of the slugs and snails, which always made me happy. I hate slugs as you can tell.
SALT is ur friend for slugs... put salt all around edges of garden beds ... everywhere... the slugs detest salt ... beer in caps around other plants, copper tape around all boarders, coffee grounds on soil 😂 seal plastic to boxes by putting wood on outside to stop slugs climbing up
@@threellamas16 OK. That one is new to me. Worth a try. Still, love to cook them to perfection. Still a little bite, but creamy centre, add nutmeg, white pepper, and butter or gravy.
I use chopped or cut barley straw around my plants to stop the slugs, it is also good for mulching and keeping the earth moist. I have also done the beer pots in the garden successfully.
Hello people, the problem of slugs is really big, you can probably catch them with dark sweet beer, make a hole in the ground, put a preserving glass there and fill it halfway with beer, place some stones around the jar and place it on something which protects the jar with beer against the elements (it is indeed a waste of beer, but the plants are no longer eaten by the snails). Good luck with the garden, it looks beautiful.
Hi from Australia growing up my grandfather used to get beer bottles and leave some beer in it and the would go in there and die he did it all the time and it worked really well Good luck
You need chickens to eat the slugs before they climb on the plants! In case you don't know: Lilies are VERY toxic for cats, and beautiful rhododendrons and azaleas make bees produce toxic honey too But anyway you have a very nice kitchen garden already, and beautiful flowers too!
Yes I agree. You can buy copper tape from garden suppliers and place it below the top edge of the outside of your raised beds to stop the slugs from crossing it. It also works on the trunks of your fruit trees to stop them getting to your cherries etc.
Nice work, successful garden project. My family uses crushed lava rock to keep the slugs away + KB Limex Ultimo only on places, where lava rock is not enough. Idea/tip perhaps make a complete border around your raise garden-beds with crushed lava rock. So you can keep the beer for yourself ;) cheers.
I use iron oxide to control slugs. It works immediately but the slugs lay eggs so you get waves of them but over time they disappear. It might take several seasons to be slug free but I have achieved that so I only put it out once a season and have no slugs. We live in the rainy Pacific Northwest of the US so lots of moisture for slugs. Good luck.
Was looking for a comment like this. Most likely the 'earth' soil or whatever you call it was already 'poisoned' with those slug eggs and those bastards wake up when it gets warm and cosy and there is free food available. So copper strips as someone else suggested would just be a fence to keep them in. Manually picking them and place in a bucket with some salt on top. Maybe salt they use for roads works, at least it can be bought fairly cheap in 20 or 25kg bags. Ilya should try every and any method until the slugs are gone.
I fight slugs, too. This year I surrounded the veggies with crushed eggshells. I hope it works. So far, so good. Unfortunately, I did this after some had already been damaged.
I see lots of comments about beer and slugs. I am looking forward for the next beer tasting. Featuring Illia, Marina and Mr. Slug. Cheers! 😊 Btw, it works, but new slugs are coming all the time.
You should put rock salt to stop the slugs & snails from eating your plants & vegetables it works great for them all plus the netting you have is the rough size holes in it they must be smaller holes like fly screens is the best Ps I just thought I would share to all
You might be able to use a copper strip around the raised planters to keep the snails and slugs away. Many growers use a copper paint around the trunk of trees. Check with local growers. It's better than pesticides
Ah ha!! Video day! I check daily hoping to see progress on your wonderful place. So inspiring. Thank you for the update. You might try topping your beds with course perlite to dissuade the slugs. Perlite comes in fine, medium, coarse, and it's too rough for them to slide easily over, even on their slimy trails. "Perlite is an amorphous volcanic glass that has a relatively high water content, typically formed by the hydration of obsidian. It occurs naturally and has the unusual property of greatly expanding when heated sufficiently." Ducks will eat slugs more so than chickens, but both are messy and loud (and might also damage your crops!)
Get some sticky insect traps, for flies, fungus gnats and other flying pests. They are yellow and have a sticker surface. I think they come with stakes so you can set them up in your enclosed grow areas. You can also make similar traps with yellow paper or plastic plates or yellow cups, like Solo cups. Apply a light coat of vaseline to them. The yellow color attracts the insects and they get caught in the vaseline.
It looked like that new abrasive disk had a knock-out to accept the larger diameter arbor. I didn't get a good look but what I did see was a brighter ring in the center which suggests a there is a knock-out. I agree with one other poster here - the way to go is not an abrasive disk but a carbide cuttoff saw (e.g. Evolution). The garden is looking great, despite the slugs.
So my father would take tin cans cut the top and bottom out of them and place it around the base of the plants. For some reason it seemed to help keep the slugs off the plants . You could try that. Also a salt concentrate sprayed on the slugs will help kill them. Especially if they are carrying eggs
You can use sheet metal on all the top edges of the raised beds. Snails cannot crawl over the narrow edge of the sheet metal if it points downwards (bend the sheet metal downwards on the outer sides 2 cm away from the outside of the raised beds). You will never see snails again. 😊
Leaving grapefruit skin halves in your flower beds and veg patches is a natural way to protect your plants from slugs - the slugs are attracted to eat the skins, but it's lethally poisonous for them.
Ducks love to at slugs and they will provide eggs for you too. You may have to fence around the garden to keep them in and away from your koi pond, though.
Wrap a peice of heavy paper cards to keep around the stem about 2-3 inches across about 1.5-2 inches high and fill with diatomaceous earth....hmmm maybe that was for squash vine borers...but a scoop around each plant should slow down the slugs as well
Illiya, you did very well explaining what it in your garden. I am impressed with your English skills! I hope you try killing the slugs with beer. And then perhaps copper tape on the edges of the planters will repel them. You will need a lot of beer! and be aware that the smell of old beer and dead slugs can be unpleasant!
Against slug methods!!! Salt Pesticides crushed egg shels on the bed Copper tape (they don't like the tiny charge from copper, can be supplied with low volatge with battery, but works good as it is) Reversed spikes ( I tried cutting off spiky bit from cling film package)
Dry out eggshells, grind them in a coffee mill or blender and sprinkle on top of the soil. It deters slugs and is a lot cheaper than using diatomaceous earth.
Here in Oregon we have tons of slugs because I think we have the same climate you have in Belgium. The organic way to kill slugs is with shallow dishes of beer. Yes, try some of that good Belgium beer to drown slugs. They are very attracted to it. In the morning your shallow dish will be full of drowned slugs. Very ugly looking but throw their dead bodies in the compost.
The best way to keep slugs and snails off a garden is salt my grandmother had small troughs filled with pool salt around her gardens and never had a slug or snail in her garden. The troughs are made from corrugated steel by my grandfather and when to rusty make new out of second hand stuff or you can use plastic poly pipe up to you what you use.
If you don’t have left over beer for killing slugs, try sprinkling old used coffee grounds on the soil near the plants they like. The slugs don’t like the feel or smell of the grounds.
You could . a beer can with 2 or 3 inches above the soil, the opening facing up. Leave around four inches of beer in it, and the slugs should go in. You could do the same with a sift drink can, but put beer in it instead of soda . Empty the slugs into a container and put it where the birds can eat the slugs.
Even over die slakken. ( hier in in mijn tuin ( én huis) een probleem). Koperdraad zou werken. Ik ben te laat begonnen met het spannen ervan, maar zie nu toch wel resultaat. koperdraad moet je nat houden ( dat lukt ook wel met al die regen).
Epsom Salt is a mineral that plants do need, not much. I used it around my plants and all the slugs disappeared. Don't let the salt touch the plants, use about every 3 to 4 weeks.
Epsom Salt ist called Magnesiumsulfat MgSO4 or Bittersalt in German. It is used as a fertilizer for fruit trees and prevents the needles of conifers from turning brown. However, it changes the soil environment to acid. Not all plants like this. Be careful.
PS: When you plant the bushes from the pots into the ground, remember to choose a distance that will allow you to mow between the bushes with the lawn mower later. Using a lawn trimmer will damage the branches.
please let me say that i had a severe problem with slugs in my garden eating everything ..i then used a band of copper from the DIY stores to tape around the item the plant was in and hey presto slugs wont cross the line .
Use some of your beer and make a slug trap. Just pour beer into a shallow tray and settle it into the soil so slugs crawl in, drawn by the beer. Bye-bye slugs. I guess they die happy...drunk?
When I saw the tittle I expected something else than a chop saw with sub grade disk and then tedious work with a small angle grinder. I don't see so many slugs in my garden but an enormous amount of Escargot snails. They even creep into the house! Must be the very humid winter and spring we had and have.
I tend to like gardens free of grass so the flowers, vegetables and trees are not choked by the grass. How can you possibly weed this garden? For slugs, put a small dish into the earth there, ground level, and then fill with beer. The slugs will go into this dish and drown. If you have tomatoes that close, trim to one stem, using square foot garden method.
There is a metal cutting saw called Evolution. Expensive but awesome. However your Vevor saw is a good one too for the money. What you need is a metal cutting blade. Not the grinding blade you have on there. Evolution makes a metal cutting blade that will work perfect. There are also other brands of metal cutting blades, too. And again the blade is expensive but having to replace the Vevor grinding blade when they get small after two or three cuts will eventually add up to the cost of a metal cutting blade that will last for a long time. I know it was frustrating to find out that replacement grinding blade have a different arbor hole than the original Vevor blade. Sometimes they do that so you will have to buy their brand blades. Just take that grinder blade back and take the old grinder blade with you and compare arbor holes with a new blade to get the right size hole. Hang in there. Like your ideal of attaching the steel beam to the wooden beams.
