The slugs eat my cactuses that I forgot outside overnight, they go over the all spiky ones too 😅 I could not believe. So yeah the ones u got there will be a laugh
I've heard that this doesnt work. I've even seen video of a slug going up and over a razors edge. Pet ducks are actually the best solution for slugs. There could be another reason the slugs aren't showing up. I'm lucky here in the desert, no slugs or snails.
I have a 20L tub buried in my garden that is home to 1 toad. My garden has a nightmare amount of slugs and snails. Last year they didn't seem less since I introduced the small pond.
There is a full-time job here for me here. Ireland 🇮🇪 where it never stops, raining. The solution is "woll pellets."which is infact made from sheep's woll. They most definitely don't like it. Of course, it's expensive, so l only use it on my crops such as spinach, etc. I'm not a farmer, just a regular girl with a garden . I detest all slugs and snails 🐌
My neighbor told me coffee grounds… I need something to stop the slugs from destroying my Grandma’s garden. She died last year and I want to help maintain it. Help!
Epsom salt Original. Sprinkle sparingly around the plants will boost all the leaves green all summer and no more slugs forever. Also if you use too much fertilizer and plants starting to yellow or too much watering, add epsom salt will cure the plants. Happy gardening
Just letting you know that slugs have a mucus layer that let's them walk across a thin razorback without getting cut. Your better bet is to cover it, or plant more for the slugs. Whatever you do just don't be cruel and use harmful things like salts and pesticides, also ducks like to eat slugs.
The slugs will still get to it. I grow cactuses with gnarly spines and the cactuses are surrounded with blackberry Vines. And they still get on my cactuses for a munch.
@@juanraro5210 i have electroculture in my cactus garden in the pots. If they are hungry they will come. Ive found giant snails on my pepper plants like the size of a quarter hanging on a leaf. What ive found works is i check my plants a couple times a day when i water and sling them across the yard. Since a bunch of lizards have decided to live in my pepper plants theres been less of them. And much less moths and army worms. I bought 7 dust because my first month of peppers gor destroyed hundreds of them. The lizards moved in and i havnt had to use any pesticides this year. Usually i have to use some seven dust. But ive gotten lucky this year. My plants were ate up from army worms. I started going out there removing and killing all that i saw. Now the lizards do the rest.
Good luck, i think the only way is to get a night vision camera with sludge detection software that sends out a drone, picks it up, and then relocates it to something else it wants to eat, far away from your crops:)
My mama has ducks that she "rents" out to her friends who have gardens and they make sure all the pests are eaten without too much damage. She did have an incident where a duck was looking into a pot and accidentally knocked it over but otherwise pretty good and organic pest control.
Copper tape is the best barrier! The copper reacts with the bodies of the slugs (or snails!) when they pass over it and it gives them little electric shocks which deter the slugs or snails without killing them or having to use chemicals (it acts much like a mini electric fence!) You can either put a single strip around the perimeter of your garden bed or use my favourite method, which is to cut up some old plastic bottles or pvc pipe to create some cylinders (around 10cm wide and 5cm tall) which you then stick a single line of copper tape around each cyclinder to create some reusable, durable and effective slug/snail barriers! Just place a barrier around each new seedling and take it off your plant once it reaches enough maturity to handle the pesky slug/snail bites or once it has been harvested! Just make sure there are no leaves that are wilting to the ground over the barriers which may act as a bridge for these critters to crawl up onto and you'll be A-OK! 👍
It might be tedious but I'm thinking of building moats around my plant beds, maybe something akin to roof guttering. I've tried something similar and it works cause they can't swim. Won't stop them from doing a trojan horse invasion though...
@@plur_ndbn Beer traps work perfectly fine if you want to attract even more slugs. You drown maybe 20 of them, but a single slug lays up to 400 eggs, so neither the beer traps nor the laughable twigs with thorns every 5 inches will bother them.
@@eSheeep Every my trap catch every night + 10-25 small slugs, so next year it can be at least 4000 less new eggs. Im not attract new slugs, only mine, who already live near garden. I hope in 5-10 years can reduce slugspopulation, it grows in my region from 2020 becouse all may and june 2020 was rain every day, they grow from that year and eat small vegs. There are two main commerce pest control drugs, but if you will read science magazines about it, slugs can just drink water to not be killed by it and if this commerce pellets will watered by rain it become just food for slugs. I'm 1000% sure that some roses cuttings not a fence fro slugs, its just shit in this YT short, I already seen many liers about anti-slugs methods - sand, mramoir sand, crushed egg shell, pine bark, this trash just not works.
Genius! Using resources that are available for free, probably not far from the garden. I have only been slug hunting one time in recent memory, and that was by chance that I was gardening into the night.
You can always buy an aluminum pie tray, fill it with beer, and the slugs will go into the tray of beer, drink it until they are drunk, and drown in the beer. My mother has done this for years and it works like a charm.
I battling slugs rn. If the bunnies and chipmunks don't eat my strawberries, the slugs will. I'm about to try copper tape and copper wire. Apparently they won't cross it. I read copper shocks them. Not sure how true that is, but if it keeps them out...
Nice! I'll try it! This year, I have some almost ready to harvest pak choi in a large, raised planter box that is not sitting directly on the ground. They can't get up there, at least so far. Thanks for this tip!
Have you really seen slugs in action? They can stretch further than you would like to believe. Sometimes I wonder if they are strategizing on how to get to your plants when they are not actually at it. Geeze.
I find making it be the wide is better. A large slug will withstand the copper if it is a thin single strand. but the inch wide strapping makes them turn around.
@@d.rabbitwhite Would a copper pipe work? I have one that I could cut to put around the pak choi I want to plant out. Last year, the slimy buggers ate all of them, no matter what I did to prevent it
I feel like some slugs, when it rains, seem to be born up from the soil. Like the eggs hatch. And no boundaries can stop those that are born out of the soil right next to your crop.
No, they're just good at hiding in the shade where moisture is found. For example there's always a couple fat slugs around and under my dogs water bowl outside, the buckets where we collect rainwater and in the drain.
Birds, that’s my method. I feed crows, and keep berries in a greenhouse. Crows eat berries. Don’t have a taste for leafy greens or root veg though. The best snail/mosquito/slug/beetle déterrant around.
Oh Gaz, you are so sweet 😂 mix left over coffee into the soil, btw. If you’re making your own compost, it can consist up to 10% of coffee. Just ask a nearby coffee shop if you can come and take their trash. :)
Show us a video of that beautiful Pak Choi in a few months when the slugs have penetrated that impenetrable barrier 🤣. I’ve tried everything over the years and beer traps seem to work the best 😉
Nice. I got some English roses growing out of control. Will do this for my succulents as well because snails & slugs annihilate my succulents over winter time.
a bowl of bear left overnight, the slugs are attracted and fall in, when the sides are too slick for them to get out wet. in the morning dump the remnants and salt. Refill bear trap and continue cycle. Or you can go out with a light and hand pick.
Used to make blackberry cane wreaths around stalks on ground so animals wouldn't dig up my plants for the dry organic nutrients below the transplant for outdoor guerilla grows
You can also set down level with the soil a plastic container of beer as they like it get drunk fall in & drown then your chooks can enjoy beer maranated slugs in the morning. You can also put gritty things around the plant like wood ash, sawdust or Diatomaceous earth but do not turn it into the soil as it is bad for worms & other soft bodied insects,
