In this episode I will share with you 5 ways to prevent snails and slugs in the garden without using harmful pesticides, even organic ones!
VIDEO: 5 Free Ways to Prevent Snails and Slugs Organically
In this episode I will share with you 5 ways to prevent snails and slugs in the garden without using harmful pesticides, even organic ones!
You obviously don’t know about gardening in Florida. live in Florida, sand is not good!! We have times when I have a slug problem. Sand does NOT get rid of slugs, plants do NOT grow well in sand at all!! Sand is NOT WELL DRAING AT ALL!! It’s extremely compacted, most plants can’t grow in sand and it’s hard to get sand watered because it’s so compacted!! Try an experiment some time! You’ll see what I mean!A little bit of sand in the soil is ok, but I don’t use sand except what’s way underneath my soil and manure mixture. When building a garden in Florida, of most types… flowers, bushes, veggies etc…. take out most sand and replace with manure and gooood soil! For veggies, try and do a raised bed on the ground. I still take out a lot of sand. I Mix in manure and soil onto the top of the sand, fill in rest of soil and manure. My beds are not very raised, just about a 1/2 foot from the ground.
I'm confused by Luke's disregard for coffee grounds when it's immediately followed by a suggestion about dry sand. Dry used coffee grounds are effective as a slug deterrent for the same reasons given about sand. The dryness of the used coffee grounds is quite important. I've used dry used coffee grounds in a thin and wide layer (a "skirt") around the base of new transplants in my garden for three years now, and it's very effective. It doesn't guarantee 100% slug prevention, but it is quite effective. To be clear, I do not find a "ring" of used coffee grounds to be effective; I do not find a sprinkling of used coffee grounds to be effective; and once the skirt becomes saturated with water they are no longer as effective. However, dry used coffee grounds do in-fact deter slugs. See this experiment here: https://youtu.be/1gPy-iKUQUc
Tell your aunt and uncle…. Start yanking them out of the garden, and get a friend with chickens to come by. They may loose the patch this year but those suckers have memories and if those chickens work like mine did…. You’ll need to farm out those chickens to keep em satisfied! Never had another snail/ slug problem again! NOW…. THOSE CABBAGE MOTH WORMS ARE A WHOLE OTHER BEAST!!!
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Thank you I learnedsomething new the sand.Thank you.
ISNT The Whole Idea Of Mulch To Keep The Plants Moist?
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Would you use regular white sand that you would put in a sandbox?
I had a slug problem. Then I got some chickens, which eat them. Also had to fence off the garden though, because chickens will also eat the garden.
I used a thin layer of cedar chips on my walkways this year. It’s helped with a lot of things. Slugs included. I also left a few bait weeds (weeds I noticed bugs were favoring). that I spray to kill the bugs since I won’t eat those or compost them.
So is this why my young lettuce plant will all of a sudden go limp and then one by one they all start doing the same? The red beets have the same issue
slugs ate about 80% of my sprouts last year. I used beer and a product called bug geta.
I was told nematodes will hurt slugs , is this true. Have you ever used nematodes?
How do you treat underground insects. Because trying to grow Korean radish. But the slugs and underground insects destroyed it. Will nematodes kill them
Can salt be sprinkled on the perimeter of garden beds, to detour snails & slugs?
You have great content but get to the point and make a 12 minute video a 4 minute video.
Snails and slugs have decided that they LOVE my irises this year. It's insane how many have been devouring my poor irises.
Add to the above practices:
Copper tape around your raised bed (make sure you don't ground the copper tape, its the weak electricity that tingles the slugs foot that keeps it from walking on the copper)
Ducks can roam your garden without too much damage (like hens) and they eat the slugs
And last but not least there's always the more direct method of what ever you have available, like the shovel or knife, you can improve this by leaving a big wooden board or something else out that they can hide under, so when you are on the hunt, just turn over the board and there should be a few slugs there.
Super, Luke. Not the usual suggestions that don't work. Thanks.
Something has been eating the leaves on my green bean plants and yesterday when I went out to check on them I discovered a bunch of slugs on them. Thank you for the tip about sand, I'm definitely going to try that!
Can you do a demo of putting sand around plant spacing
Metal pot scrubbers cut into circles, slipped over a broccoli around the stem when they are seedlings seemed to help last year.
Dry conditions in England! Never! And how are the succulent green plants much loved by slugs going to be watered! No water and they die!
Snails are eating my adenium (desert rose) . It is raised away from any moisture. They also had a buffet with my orchids on my patio table.
So a week ago I bought some herb plants from my local nursery and came out today and found 4 snails on my stevia plant and one on another one of the small plants. The stevia is turning brown and looks unhealthy. I've never even seen a snails before so do u think they were in the soil when I bought them? They are still in the starter pots I bought them in. I picked them off and killed them but nervous about repotting and putting them around my other veg plants. I'm new to gardening. I live in sand. Is this the same kind of sand u talk about? Do u have any other advice?
Slugs breathe through a blow hole on back of head area. Get a big 1 and watch him awhile and you will see.
The slugs like to hide under the the raised bed frames