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Having trouble with Slugs and Snails?
Slugs and snails are one of a gardener's worst nightmares. They can decimate a row of seedlings overnight, and leave favorite perennials looking like Swiss cheese. But not all slugs are bad, and even the ones that munch your plants are playing an important role in the garden ecosystem.
There are plenty of ways to control slugs and snails in your garden without resorting to pesticides. Try traps, barriers, sacrificial plants, or just choose plants that they don't like to eat!
There are plenty of ways to control slugs and snails in your garden without resorting to pesticides. Try traps, barriers, sacrificial plants, or just choose plants that they don't like to eat!
50 Ways to Kill a Slug
Serious and Silly Ways to Kill or Outwit the Garden's Number One Enemy
An ideal stocking filler gift for the gardener in your life!
50 Ways to Kill a Slug: Serious and Silly Ways to Kill or Outwit the Garden's Number One Enemy
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Win the war against the world's most hated garden pests with a battle plan of 50 effective slug-killing tactics-all amusingly written and illustrated with cartoons. An at-a-glance profile reveals effective weapons to use against the slug (including beer), and there are smart new ways to confuse them and set them off track.
Choose from those 50 slug-beaters, and inflict death the natural way, by chemical warfare, and by the "surprise" attack. Never has such a practical handbook been such fun to read.
Make slugs sweat
Dancing slugs would probably be more welcome in the garden!
Ready for a slug plague?
Recent weather has caused a slug population explosion in the UK
The UK, already known for being a sluggy place anyway, is facing a potential slug plague after moist summer weather failed to kill them off.
Fortunately there are plenty of environmentally friendly ways to control the slug population in your garden. Learn all about them by listening to episode 33 of The Alternative Kitchen Garden.
Fortunately there are plenty of environmentally friendly ways to control the slug population in your garden. Learn all about them by listening to episode 33 of The Alternative Kitchen Garden.
Ghost slugs?
A new species is ghostly white
A new species of slug has been spotted in Wales - its white colour has earned it the name Ghost Slug, or Selenochlamys ysbrada. And it's not a friendly beast, either, as it likes to feed on earthworms. Slug-proof plants
Try growing plants that slugs don't like
Slugs love some plants more than others, but are there really plants that they don't like eating?Is lavender less likely to be munched than hostas? Will sedums be ravaged? Gardeners' World Magazine has a list of slug-proof plants.
Slugs munching your prized plants?
A quick guide to protecting your crops without chemicals
Keeping slugs and snails under control in an organic garden is a long term project - developing a balanced ecosystem, healthy soil and strong plants mean that slugs and snails do less damage.
But if f you've got a slug emergency then there's still no need to reach for the slug pellets, because there are organic and eco-friendly ways to deal with pests in your garden.
Check out this handy guide to controlling slugs without chemicals.
But if f you've got a slug emergency then there's still no need to reach for the slug pellets, because there are organic and eco-friendly ways to deal with pests in your garden.
Check out this handy guide to controlling slugs without chemicals.
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- The_Goblins_Den The_Goblins_Den Jan 21, 2009 @ 2:27 pm
- Great lens! Keep on sluggin'!
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- Fluffymuppet Fluffymuppet Oct 26, 2008 @ 3:37 am
- Grrr...slugs make me mad
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- BigGirlBlue BigGirlBlue Oct 14, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
- We had and explosion of slugs this year. I couldn't believe it. Other than wiping them off stuff and picking them off stuff when I see them I don't really bother too much with mine. As you say they play a role in the eco-system that is my yard. We'll see how it goes next year.
Useful Slug and Snail Links
- Slug It Out slug and snail control measures
- Slug and snail control measures, slug resistant plants
- How to organically prevent and control slugs in your vegetable garden
- Garden Organic: How to organically prevent and control slugs in your vegetable garden. There are various ways of organically preventing and controlling slugs. This advisory note will give you some brief information.
- Slugs in your Garden
- All about slugs and slug control
- slug and snail trail
- Over 101 organic ways of protecting your crops and garden plants from the destructive habits of slugs and snails
by EmmaCooper
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