I have the very good method to control the slug. I add 1tsp of dry yeast + 1tbs of plain flour + 2 tsp of sugar mix with cup of water. The mixture I put in several small yogurt pot with cover ; also I cut some window for slugs to get inside they love the drink. I must have get rip all the slugs of the front garden in one week. Everyday I discarded the dead slugs and add more mixture.

Thank you very much for the information.

great info thanks, really useful and handy to know!

@ProjectDiaries

7 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help

Thank you!❤

We moved to Ireland just over a year ago. Began growing veg. It rains in Ireland (famous for it) a LOT. So, we have more than our share of slugs. I'm sixty, half blind and a couple of weeks ago I broke a leg and tore the knee ligaments so slug hunts are out of the question as I'm on crutches and they tend to come out and eat all my veg at night. I tried SO hard and long with organic control methods but given how many slugs exist and how far down in the soil they burrow (up to six feet) I've had to cave in and use pellets or I'll go on feeding slugs instead of my family. The thing is, we're not wealthy enough to go on growing food for the wildlife to be eating. I tried planks (caught one or two each morning AFTER they'd feasted), wool (no, it doesn't work or stop them), upturned orange skins (again, not enough caught) and when I'd transplanted half a dozen raised beds with fine healthy big seedlings only to come out the next morning and find ninety percent of them eaten, I gave up. I'm covering the raised beds in the hope no birds or hedgehogs etc get to any dead slugs with fine mesh netting. Once the plants are bigger and tough enough to withstand the slug onslaught I'll quit using them and remove the covering. But sometimes, if you need to grow to eat, you do what you have to do. Meaning no offense with this, because believe me the last thing I wanted to do was use the pellets. I just can't afford to keep feeding the slugs and since gardening is also time dependent, I wouldn't have time to grow up enough to get into the beds. :/

@Frostie3672

2 жыл бұрын

It's no good just hoping no birds or hedgehogs are killed as a result of you using horrific slug pellets, Christ our precious hedgehogs are now vulnerable to extinction & hearing of people using horrific poisons in their gardens it's not a surprise really is it :( I'm guessing you've never seen a video of a hedgehog dying from slug pellet poisoning as if you did you'd never use that horrid stuff ever again, someone shared a video on a hedgehog group I'm a member of on facebook to raise awareness & to show the devastating effect using poisons has on other wildlife such as hedgehogs, it's a video I am never ever going to forget in a hurry. I am beyond glad that slug pellets containing metaldehyde are now banned here in the uk, illegal to be sold & more importantly illegal for anyone to even use in their own garden & I wouldn't hesitate to report anyone I found out was still using it. Plain & simple there is no excuse for using poisons, there are other ways, other things to try which aren't deadly to other wildlife.

Thank you for the info.

@wolk2

2 ай бұрын

You know

Thankyou for sharing your knowledge and experience. Coffee Grounds have helped my Slug problems and I am building several Hybernaculums including a pond to attract the Wildlife. 😆 Happy Gardening, Terry.

@ProjectDiaries

7 жыл бұрын

I actually grow my Potatoes in coffee ground and sawdust but it didn't stop the bigger slugs attacking the whole crop. I'm trying to find a good space for a Pond this year

@terrykingsallotmentgardening

7 жыл бұрын

Project Diaries I have found log ashes added to the mix stops all the slugs and wire worms in my potato containers and in the ground, will experiment with log ashes around my Brassica's this year.

What happens to the metaldehyde when it gets into the soil over time? Does it dissipate or break down naturally?

Hi Lee, Hope you doing well. Have recently subscribed your channel which is helping me do good in my mini-garden on the small balcony of my appartment. I had a concern on snails. I have found many in one of my pots and wanted to understand if they are harmful for the plant. Please guide. Regards Rohan Soares India

After years of just letting it go, I must have killed hundreds of slugs and snails last year rounding them up in a bucket and drowned them all and reduced the numbers what i thought was significantly but then i left it a year and their numbers are back, this year i am fed up having plants i buy being eaten and plants that come up every year having to deal with slug attacks before they even get the chance to make it out of the ground. my sympathy for slugs and snails has gone out the window and don't care, they leave every weed going and attack anything decent in the garden. The pellets seem to be working great at keeping them away so there will be more where that came from

Great video. The 2 people who gave thumbs down are slugs

informative as usual thanks for your video and glad your feeling better.

@ProjectDiaries

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :)

Fantastic video, thanks! I knew they were bad, but whoah, definitely not ever using them! They were saying on GQT the other day that the bad slugs are the little tiny ones, the big ones don't really like living plants and only feed on detritus. So maybe those chemicals you mentioned later in the video would be ok? The best advice I ever got for slugs is just to be really tidy in the veg patch; clear away any leaves from the beds and avoid wooden beds as slugs tend to hide and breed in them. Nothing beats a night-time slug hunt for getting rid of them though :)

@ProjectDiaries

7 жыл бұрын

Personally I wouldn't use any chemicals and just stick to slug hunts etc. The big ones took out 70% of my crop last year so they're all as bad as each other

@domsquaaa4323

Жыл бұрын

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I do appreciate that you have noted the publics disgust in your nail and have scaled it back to only brief appearances in your videos. Cheers pal another great video as always.

@ProjectDiaries

7 жыл бұрын

hahahaha! I only grow it when it comes in handy ;'D

@newnegritude1550

6 жыл бұрын

Chill Jake! You are the only disgusting one...

Crushed egg shells work great and old grinded coffee too

my friend lost his 2 dogs from snail pellets. he accidentally left his shed door open and the poor dogs ate the pellets. p.s your nails are cool!!!! great for guitar playing!!!!

@ProjectDiaries

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you! My Nails seem to get more attention than the information I offer haha :)

GT update your videos are always full of information hope your now on the mend 🐤🐦🐝🐞😁👍👍

@ProjectDiaries

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks Graham. Feeling a little better now :)

Food grade Diatomaceous earth is edible and an excellent slug repellant.

I hope you stay well. Have you looked into nematodes as a means of slug control, also a copper wire ring will cause the slug to recoil.

@ProjectDiaries

7 жыл бұрын

I did but it seems expensive and I'm not sure I wanna introduce ring worms into the Garden personally

My cat ate one she kept vomiting have seizures and a phew days later died on my door step my other cat yelled and sat were she died all day A year before she also lost her eye.. ;-;

@jonwilliams3664

3 жыл бұрын

Having 9 lives is a load of bollox then!

I use wood tar around the greenhouse base to keep them out.

@ProjectDiaries

7 жыл бұрын

I've never heard of wood tar?

@eddylanzboy

7 жыл бұрын

Wood tar, liquid obtained as one of the products of the carbonization, or destructive distillation, of wood. There are two types: hardwood tars, derived from such woods as oak and beech; and resinous tars, derived from pine wood, particularly from resinous stumps and roots.

Tobacco works like charm! Grow them yourself, and after harvesting and drying the leaves, sprinkle them around your plants. Best thing ever! Biodegradable and cheap.

They are good for sickle cell

@ms.charlie841

3 жыл бұрын

The iron phosphate

Am so glad those horrific slug pellets containing metaldehyde are now banned in the uk, illegal to sell them & it's illegal for anyone to use them! Those horrid things were a major cause of hedgehog deaths, a 95% population crash since the 1950s but a glimmer of hope with a recent studies showing urban hedgehog populations may be stabilising, still declining in urban areas though so more work to do! I love seeing hedgehogs in my garden, I'm turning it into a haven for wildlife, got three hedgehog houses, feeding stations & once all the bushy shrubs get growing they'll be natural habitat for them to build nests under if they so wish, already have lots of birds visiting, I swear being around nature & wildlife is good for the soul & my anxiety lol.

:)

@ProjectDiaries

6 жыл бұрын

:)

Pot salt directly on them boom dead quicker than quick

@ProjectDiaries

2 жыл бұрын

That involves finding them and adding salt to soil. Not advisable. This way the slugs find the trap instead of you finding the slugs.

@jennifermohammed6476

2 жыл бұрын

@@ProjectDiaries well where I reside they come looking they are all over in volumes so I have pot salt especially for them