Eaten by Slugs

Category: Control

  • Product: Slug Inn – Slug Trap for Slugs and Snail Control, free your garden from Slugs and Snails 6 pack for £10

    Product: Slug Inn – Slug Trap for Slugs and Snail Control, free your garden from Slugs and Snails 6 pack for £10

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    AlexE
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    The Slug Inn – So, are you struggling with Slugs and Snails. Are your precious borders and containers being decimated by those slimy creatures of the night? Are you concerned about using chemicals and pesticides that might be environmentally unfriendly? Are you worried about the risks to other animals? – Yes? – Well, the Slug…

  • Slug-proof plants

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    Slug busters Slugs may have voracious appetites but they’re fussy eaters too – and therein lies an answer to a slimy problem. The good news is that there are a selection of plants that slugs, and snails, will steer clear of. Aquilegias Astilbes Astrantias Begonias Crocosmias Euphorbias Ferns Fuchsias Grasses Hardy geraniums Hellebores Hydrangeas Japanese…

  • Control: Handpicking

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    This method of slug extermination is strictly for the non-squeamish. Fix a hat pin, or similar needle-like item, to a stick, binding it tightly with string. Then simply go round the garden spearing your slugs like the man collecting litter in the park. The slugs can be transferred to a container of salt or boiling…

  • Non-Toxic Slug Control by Arzeena Hamir

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    The best way to combat slugs is to understand their lifecycle. Slugs themselves are composed of a high percentage of water and will begin feeding as soon as soil temperatures rise above 40 F (5 C), emerging from the soil or from protected areas. Slugs prefer to forage at night or on dull days when…

  • Barrier: Slug Lady – she’s cheap

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    Ok, enough of the sexist language, Slug lady is one of the cheapest solid barrier methods you can try. “Slug Lady Red/Black – gain the upper hand with these effective eco-friendly recycled boards that give individual protection to each plant for 3 weeks. Impregnated with salt and sulphate, a slug-and-snail repelling ring forms round the…

  • Control: Doing it the biological way: Nematodes

    Control: Doing it the biological way: Nematodes

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    There are a while host of ways to control slugs in your garden but one of the increasingly popular methods is biological control. This could be in the form of large scale predators (birds, hedgehogs, frogs etc.) or you could go small and try Nematodes. Nemaslug Slug Killer Nemaslug controls all common species of small…