One simple example is the beer trap. Bury a partially filled can up to the lip and wait for slugs to drink themselves to death. For this method to be effective, the beer and dead slugs should be emptied out and replaced every few days.
Poison baits and sprays may be a viable option for people desperate to defend their strawberry crop from large numbers of slugs. However, chemical control measures should always be used with caution and they can be toxic to other animals, including dogs and beneficial insect species. There are plenty of other substances that repel slugs and snails , including diatomaceous earth, lime, sawdust, wood ash, and copper striping.
You can use these substances to make a slug-proof barrier around your plants, but they may need to be replaced after a rainfall.
Salt kills slugs and snails by mixing with the slime on their skin to create a highly saline solution. This rapidly sucks water out of their bodies by osmosis, causing them to bubble, shrivel, and die of dehydration.
Fortunately, there are plenty of other ways to control slugs and snails in your garden including hand picking, setting traps, planting slug-resistant plants and creating barriers around susceptible plants. It should repel them. Though, you might be in need of repeating the procedure. Another way is making a beer trap for them, get an open container, put it in the ground, pour about an inch of beer inside of it, so the slugs and snails can drown in it. I Also seem to have fewer snails as a result.
Any loose salt that I notice I sweep up and remove to a bin. I have lost nearly every single poppy I have planted this year and could not figure out why.
I was blaming my cat that she was peeing in my flower beds! Well tonight I just happened to be outside looking around and noticed oh my god!!! My yard is infested with slugs!!!! Slugs all over them feasting!!! Slugs love young and weak plants. Even varieties that are normally resistant will be eaten if they are not strong and healthy. To protect them you could try to put lettuce leaves near by. Then slugs will prefer these leaves and the young plants get enough time to develop their resistance.
Amazon Affiliate Link. Author Recent Posts. Alexander Boeckmann. Gardening in harmony with nature. Latest posts by Alexander Boeckmann see all. Alexander Boeckmann Gardening in harmony with nature. Hi Jerry, thank you for your comment! Half of them drowned but the rest climbed out.
After a while, I could not bring myself to handle any more. Then I remembered salt, so I got a kitchen shaker. They pulled right back in their shells, so I feared my attempts at genocide were turning into torture. This morning, however, the pavement was empty. Some people recommend drowning, either in soapy water or in beer, but drowning is not a pleasant way to go. Salt draws moisture from the snail, and they basically dehydrate. They also lose the ability to move as they are unable to produce the slime that allows them to glide over surfaces, so they become very salty sitting ducks for creatures that like snails.
Again, effective, but not an easy death. Some people recommend gathering them into a bag and putting them in the freezer, then dumping them in the garbage, but that can be tricky. Snails go into a type of hibernation in the winter, so they may not die, just be put in a state of suspended animation.
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