How to deal with slugs in the garden

How to deal with slugs in the garden? Let's not have long lengthy stories about what these creatures eat and where they live. While you read this information, slugs will have time to destroy a decent part of the cultural landings. Less verbiage, more work. Let's get started

All means of dealing with slugs are divided into 3 categories:

• luring
• scare
• killing

All of them work quite well, but only on condition of regularity. You can not put one trap and wait for a miracle. Otherwise you will have to admire the stubble of vegetables. And slugs will giggle viciously behind your back.

Each method will work much better if you use an integrated approach. Below we describe the most common options, and it is up to you to decide which of them suits you.

Lures from slugs

Beer. Absolutely all sources, like parrots, say one thing: it is very easy to lure slugs to a frothy drink. They say they pour the liquid into any container, they drop it in the beds. Then it only remains to periodically change the beer to fresh and throw away the drowned.

In principle, the method works, but with one reservation. Slugs are also those gourmets. And they sneezed on your canned or bottled beer. Some individuals may risk trying such a swill, but most of the mollusks prefer the natural unfiltered. Oh how! That such a drink will have to pour into the trap.

Good, if the pests attacked a tiny front garden. And if the creature attacked the garden area of ​​30 acres? A expensive pleasure is obtained.

Sour milk. Much cheaper way. Any family uses kefir, yogurt, sour cream often enough. Glasses and boxes from under them should not be thrown away. While there is still a sour smell from the remnants of the liquid, you need to add some water inside, then prikopat design in the beds. It is very important that the sides of the tank do not rise above the surface of the earth, otherwise slugs will not be able to fall into the trap.Periodically replace the glasses with new ones, the old ones are thrown away with dairy products along with the dead hunters.

• plank
• 2 flat stones or pieces of ceramic tile
• some kefir or spoiled sour cream

All you need is to plaster one side of the board with the sour milk. Then put on the stones with the plastered surface to the ground. Naturally, on the beds, and not across the road. During the night a whole crowd of slugs crawls on a treat. They can simply be collected in a jar or box. What to do with them later depends on your bloodthirstiness and the damage inflicted on the landings.

Fruits. Everywhere there is advice to make a grapefruit bait. No doubt, slugs will surely crawl on the alluring smell. But this is an unaffordable luxury: spreading halves of an expensive tropical fruit on a plot!

And now turn on the head. If slugs crawl into your garden to eat, then there is something that attracts them. These are habitual to us vegetables and fruit. So why not use them? After all, even the old fermented jam or spoiled fruit will fit.

The main thing is to have a sour smell. The principle of the trap is described above, only instead of kefir there may be rotten strawberries or pieces of pre-cooked apple. And do not have to spend money on the purchase of tropical fruits.

Council The spoiled juice with the addition of a drop of yeast also remarkably attracts mollusks.

Scare away slugs

Spice. Pour red and black pepper on the beds - slugs will not pass! A good advice if you have money the hens do not peck. And it only works until the first watering or decent rain.

Pour these spices into the language of such "kind" advisers so that they do not write nonsense.

Salt. A call like this: sprinkle the earth around the plants with ordinary table salt. Slugs will not be able to overcome such an obstacle.

Well, yes, the rain will pass, all the salt will wash off. The pests will crawl again, sprinkle the soil again. And then you can safely leave the garden for a few years. For even weeds will stop growing in such a salty soil, not like a cultural planting. The recipe is not very useful.

Lime or fertilizer. It is also recommended not sparing pour under the plants.Say, slugs die from contact with similar substances.

Only it is not mentioned that the pest body is protected from lime by a thick layer of mucus. Non-believers are advised to conduct an experiment:

• Add a circle of lime.
• Plant in the center of the slug.
• Outside the circle, place a piece of spoiled fruit.
• Catch your eyes.

Why catch the eyes and not the clam? Because they will come out of your surprise from surprise. When you see what distance the slug crawls over the lime, and how long it will have time to gobble up, until it dies. If you die at all.

About the scattering of fertilizers without any comments. They are fed for feeding, and then they calculate every gram, and here they propose to scatter handfuls. What will happen to the soil later? Immediately would have shied away with a nuclear charge - the effect is almost identical.

Sawdust, ash, sand, needles. Not metal, of course. Conifer needles. It is necessary to mulch the beds with a thick layer of sawdust, sand or needles. To heighten the effect, sprinkle ashes on top. Slugs will not be able to overcome such an obstacle, because they will scratch their tum.

The method works great. But a reasonable question arises: where to get so much mulch? Buying expensive, but on the road it does not roll. Yes, and in some areas it will need to be delivered by cars to cover the entire area. What to do? The border!

No, you do not have to put on a helmet and muktar Mukhtar. Poking the nose of the slug in between, indicating the forbidden territory is also not necessary. But it is necessary to clearly define the border. To do this, pour the above materials 2 dividing strips around the garden. Each width of at least 20 cm. Even if part of the enemy overcomes the first, the second band to crawl is not enough mucus.

The method is good because it saves a lot of mulch and time for its installation. One minus: slugs left on the site will not be able to leave it. But you will collect these saboteurs with your own hands.

Plants. Shellfish do not tolerate the scent of some plants. These are garlic, marigold, delphinium, tansy, rosemary and thyme. Some sources advise to plant them on the beds. But the fact is that by themselves these herbs do not scare away slugs. Of these, you need to prepare infusions or decoctions, and very strong. On average, per 10 liters of ordinary water requires from 700 g to 1 kg of vegetable raw materials.

It is necessary to pour boiled water over the chopped grass and leave it for a day. Then strain and spray plantings. The remains of steamed plants can be expanded directly in the garden beds.The smell of the infusion remarkably scares off the slugs, and the poisonous substances from the delphinium and tansy poison them.

By the way, if on the site grows regular nettle, then it can be cut off and put between plantings. Slugs do not like small dry spines at all.

Coffee. It is a masterpiece! Many sources cite research results on the negative effects of caffeine on the heart of slugs. Allegedly spraying causes them to panic and desire to escape. Absolutely crazy or something? Explore the panic of slugs! This is a question of combating them and disposing of an expensive drink. Because the recipe is far from cheap: 2 tsp. coffee to 200 ml of boiling water and sprinkle the garden.

Do not invent yourself unnecessary material costs. There are other ways to get rid of the clams on the site.

Radical methods of dealing with slugs

Poison. The industry offers many different means to destroy slugs. These are special granules, liquid and tablet preparations for directing the solution. All this should be used in strict accordance with the instructions, so as not to harm yourself and your pet.The poison copes well with its task, but it has one drawback. Its validity is only a month. Then the procedure will have to be repeated.

Natural helpers. In nature, slugs are food for birds, animals, amphibians and insects. Some sources strongly recommend to lure such assistants. Well, yes, and when the slugs end, you will have to drive these comrades. Otherwise, they themselves would not mind eating vegetables and berries.

The only thing that can be advised is to plant more dill, cumin and fennel on the plot. These plants attract ground beetles. And they, in turn, literally herds exterminate slugs. By the way, insects do not harm other cultural plantings. But simply adore the larvae of various pests.

Nematode. A wonderful parasite that kills slugs. Sold as a concentrate of live microorganisms. Simply dilute the preparation with water and spray the plants and the soil beneath them. According to reviews, the protection works for at least 80 days, then the processing will have to be repeated.

The method is remarkable in that it is absolutely safe for plants, animals and people. But he also has his drawbacks:

• In Russia, the drug is very rare.
• The bottle is indecently expensive.
• Nematodes work only under certain conditions of humidity and ambient temperature.
• Shelf life is very small, about 19 days.

Despite all the drawbacks, the way to deal with slugs using predatory nematodes is gaining momentum. Does not even stop the cost of delivery from abroad. It is no wonder, because the invasion of slugs is scary. They do not disdain anything.

Of course, if you notice a couple on a raspberry bush, the game is not worth the candle. And if every morning you see miserable bits at the site instead of planting, then it is better to spend money on the tool.

Useful recommendations

If there is perfect purity on your site, and slugs creep from an abandoned neighbor, then try digging in sheets of slate along the border. But let them stick above the ground at least 9-11 cm. And if you periodically spray the fence with drugs containing copper, then the slugs will run away from your site as if from fire. Copper plates have a similar effect. They just lightly strike pests with a current. Do not like slugs such a meeting.

Does not help? Is the site abandoned? Spray the weeds with herbicides. Neighbors don't care, and your life will be much easier, the clams will probably go to a more suitable place of residence.

How to deal with slugs in the garden? Brutally and mercilessly. Do not leave a single chance to the pests. Otherwise they will leave you without a crop.

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