Ok beer traps just encourage them to come for 50 years now ive been leaving nettles and brambles wild i don't like getting stung and they don't so leave nettles and brambles wild around beds little damage for over half a century now happy gardening Richardx
The commercial before your video was too get rid of pigeons, I once tamed a wild pigeon. I named him Phil, and he would let me pet him and stuff. He lived on my balcony but then we had to part ways cuz he pooped too much. Too rid of a pigeon that you are friends with, simply pour out ground black pepper wherever they roost. It irritates their feet without really hurting them, so they will move. Hopefully that helps some one. And I have made beer traps for snails before that work really well, the only problem for me is I live by a river so in no time at all they fill the trap and then just crawl out off all the dead bodies. Im hoping you have some natural tips?
I still say by far the best way to reduce slug and snail numbers is to physically get rid of them. Either have something that finds them very tasty (note that hedgehogs and slow-worms do this too), or go out just after sunset with a pair of scissors and a torch and kill every one you can find. After a few days of doing that, you'll find the numbers are greatly reduced.
Thank you. Very informative. I have too much snails and they are out of control. I collected garden leaves and branches piled into the compost. Each night I can collect a full Walmart bag of snails. Last year, we had a freeze under 10F degree. This year I have less, but they multiplies so quick. My only way to keep them out of my garden is built a rough wall around the vegetables and pick them up each night.
If you really want to keep slugs off your plant pots, just smear lithium automotive grease around the pot. They can't gain a vertical purchase and will just keep sliding off.
It'd be great to see more content on DE. From what I gather, soft-bodied insects like aphids & slugs are unaffected, presumably because they don't have an oil coating like arthropods do?
I like toads hanging around my garden. They are pretty opportunistic feeders and always seem to be hungry. The more toads the fewer snails. They work the night shift while I sleep and do a great job at reducing the snail population. Another great anti-snail device is keeping a big rock handy. I won’t describe how this helps with snail control but I do find it a bit therapeutic in one sense and although it’s not the most efficient way of pest control it does help in the vegetable garden to reduce the snail population. Land snails are hermaphrodites having both male and female reproductive organs but usually they need a partner although some go solo. They can lay as many as 50 eggs (some species it can be as many as 100) in the topsoil “nest” and in about 4 weeks they hatch and in just over a months time they can be sexually mature and start reproducing. So getting rid of just one snail can have a big impact upon the backyard snail population. Having garden mulch is a great way to provide habitats for toads to prosper and help control the population. It’s easier to encourage toads to live in your garden than wasting time trying remedies that are ineffective and costly when toads are basically free, requiring no salary, only a safe haven and they will reward you with a means of snail control better than anything I could ever do although I still keep my rock handy! 😂😉
Unfortunately australia doesn’t have many snail predators cos they are an invasive species here. Like don’t get me wrong we have our own species too but the ones that are in our gardens are mostly not from Australia. I mean some things eat them but just not enough predators unfortunately.
I wrapped to top 3rd of my bird feeding pole with copper tape and I haven’t seen a slug/snail on it. They crawl up to it but not on it. Success so far, I was waking up to 10+ snails on the bird food in the morning. Gross. Time will tell.
Thank you for this video! I'll try out commercial snail bait, as I do have a serious snail problem. I caught about twenty just this morning. They ate off all the leaves of my young turkish nut bush and started to feed on my eggplants 😢 Even tough, there is plenty of deconposing plant material for them.
I use blackberry vines. You can use any type of thorny vine, but we have lots of blackberries where I live. Just lay two or three layers of thorny vines around the border. The slugs can't get over them without impaling themselves...
FoodPURA Food Grade Human Diatomaceous Earth is apparently the one to get, its also worth trying encouraging thrushes and blackbirds that love to eat them. Me I used jars buried to the neck and filled with beer, they love the yeast, got a friend that makes beer?
The best home remedy for snails and slugs is tide (or any other laundry detergent that is in powdered form) mixed in water. Add about one and a half tablespoons of tide in a liter of water, shake well and spray in the problem area. Spray late in the afternoon when it is a little cold but not in extreme heat. Avoid spraying on young leafy vegetables.
Only issue with your test is that there should be an area in the doughnut where there is a clear exit to indicate perhaps when POSSIBLE the slugs would avoid x material but if there is no other options the creature will take what ever path it can.
If they are really repelled by the material - they will not cross it - example dry diatomaceous earth. You can also watch them as they approach the material.
I just come across your video, thank you for the clear explanation. Question: can I put snail pellets in a snail trap i.e. the small green trap box featured in your video? Product information for snail traps are that they are for beer traps.
Wood on the ground in general attracts snails and slugs. I can go out in my yard anytime and pick up any 2x4 or plank and guaranteed too find slugs and snails, although have had no problem with wood chips? Although the wood chips I use are from my chicken coupe full of poop that I turned to mulch, dont know if that makes a difference?
Thank you. Very helpful. What about flies? I live in an urban area with houses so code together and businesses with dumpsters close by. I've noticed that in the peak of summer especially, too many flies accumulate in my garden so I'm always removing the dying off plant material. I use fly traps but it doesn't do much
I have recently bought a fly trap by Rescue, Outdoor Fly Trap, it works amazingly. Read the instructions before opening the bag. It states it will catch 20000 flys before disposal, and that’s the truth.
Potato peelings attract slugs, grease the container that the peeling are in, empty peeling and slugs the next morning into your garden rubbish bin the day the bin is being collected by the bin man!
Do you have any recommendations for dealing with Japanese beetles? Do you get them in the Guelph area? There is a massive infestation in my area of south Mississauga.
We get them. Don't use the commercial traps unless you can site them far from your plants. Hand picking works. Need works if you can spray them. Nematodes for your lawn work - but follow directions precisely.
@@Gardenfundamentals1 thank you for the helpful video.. I have a 80% concrete garden with a raise brick plant bed in the middle and a mud side path covered in slate, but I went into my garden an hour ago and to my shock there was at least 200 snails I was so shocked, it’s been raining on and off here in the UK for two weeks but I am shocked how many there was, I want to build a garden pond but I’m worried that the garden snails and slugs will destroy the pond and fish, any advice will be very appreciated
Birds, (starlings) spiders and ground beetles are it's natural enemies. Ants are, too, but you don't really want an infestation of those either. Ground beetles are attracted by piles of leaves or timber and stones, or just timber, so if you run a tight ship you may consider such untidiness not worth the bother.
Thank you for this (and all your videos so far - I've learned so much)! I have spent my day sprinkling crushed garlic and pushing garlic cloves in my vegetable bed because I read online that it kills the slug? I found two, sprinkled a bit of garlic on it and they didn't seem to like it. I don't know if it killed them or not, but them not liking it is all I need. What's your view on garlic?
A chemical extracted from garlic does kill slugs, but this does not mean it deters slugs or that the concentration in garlic kills them. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/09/030912071959.htm
@@Gardenfundamentals1 Thank you for your quick response and very interesting aricle! Hopefully that and rotting matter sprinkled around should do the trick ;)
Salt will do it but it washes away. If it soaks into the ground it kills the plants then there's nothing for the slugs to eat, and they go elsewhere! Winner.
Hi just found this video and it’s very interesting, however any idea what I can do with fungus gnats, all my outdoor pots and grow bags have them. Too much rain here isn’t helping HELP !!!!!
i have used nemitodes, they are really good for slugs and i cannot find slugs in my garden. they dont work well on snails as snails dont eat thier dead
@@aparajeetamallick3997 microscopic paracites, that breed in while eating thier host. (if you are in the UK, try the company: gardening natrally, which is where i get mine)
@@aparajeetamallick3997beneficial nematodes. They are microscopic parasites that only infect certain bugs-different species for different bugs. They do not/cannot infect humans.
@@Gardenfundamentals1 You can create your own. Put 12 or 15 slugs in a bucket with some food and fill with an inch of water. Leave for a couple of weeks and dilute the water with spring water. Spray the water onto the worst affected areas around the plants. Apparently some slugs are infected with the nematode by confining them in the bucket the nematode becomes more aggressive. Sadly it has never worked with snails.
@LisaLouNZ I wrap my 4x4 bed with 2 individual strands of copper wire and space them about 1/2 inch apart stapleing them to my raised box then at the end i connect both wires to a small 9 volt battery i keep in a small tupperware container just put 2 small holes for wires to go through . you can see how its done on youtube just search slug control and there are many videos on how to do it and for me it works great
@@Dreamalea51280 Or you can catapult it to your neighbour's car or house for decorations. For acting like a rat(two-legged) stealing your hard earning fruits of labour.