You're half way to making your own nematodes Emma. Leave them to ferment in the water butt and after a week strain the delicious liquid into a watering can . Then sprinkle all over your most precious crops. See Simplify Gardening channel where Tony shows the complete method .

@zombiestyled

Ай бұрын

Does that work? I always chuck slugs into a 5 litres bottle of water then add and Leave and dump every few months. You mean I can leave and use ?

@georgemartin9618

Ай бұрын

I've just made my first batch so no result yet . According to Tony it works for him , there are numerous videos on YT.

Ive always chopped them in half, ive got alot of very friendly blackbirds that follow me around and eat all the dead slugs in my wake.

You can put Salt on Them

@C31living

Ай бұрын

Salt hurts the soil also though hun

As others have said, put the slugs in the compost bin. They do a great job in there. Your plots are looking lovely. Well done.

@charlotterydz6343

Ай бұрын

This is what I do, so it is a good idea? I wasn’t just making it up?!!

Salt does a good job. They shrivel in the sun as well.

@kathyroberts5870

Ай бұрын

It's almost like they melt. Cheap table salt or Epsom salt sprinkled in the beds .

@andymerrett

Ай бұрын

@@kathyroberts5870 putting salt directly on the beds may not be a great long term solution as you may end up poisoning your plants or making the plot unusable in the future.

oh we feel your pain, the buggas have eaten so much of our stuff, i now walk around with a pocket full of dog poo bags,collect them up and pack them off to the nearest dog poo bin,!

Oh I put all my slugs & snails in my compost bin especially if I’ve just added loads of new material. Put them to work. Most of the time this works beautifully. However 2024 spring has been quite a different story I’ve used safe organic slug stuff but only on beds I cover with netting. Just can’t risk wildlife being affected. We have to adapt sometimes 🤩

@beverley1539

Ай бұрын

Oh like that idea🐝🇨🇦

Salt Salt Salt Cheap table salt. Pour table salt on them in a bucket or pot. I use it around the out side of my beds. Sprinkle Epsom salt in the beds it will also keep plants green . Not too much.

@charlotterydz6343

Ай бұрын

My neighbour goes out with salt 🧂 I guess that’s how she deals with them

Why not put the slugs elsewhere like in those bushes near the back fence or where you walk in to the plot area where there are lots of bushes?

I love your update Emma, thanks for sharing! In my experience slugs don’t drown usually, but if you put them in salt water that’ll work. Or beer, I drown mine in cheap beer, at least the die happy drunk then 🤣 Love the staple gun hack! I shall dif mine out for my plot 👍😁 xx

Emma, to solve your snail problem put them in a bucket and sprinkled salt over them the salt will dry them out ,don't forget to put a lid on the bucket or sprinkled snail pellets over them as well ,it really does work trust me ,

Love your channel, so positive. Love your sense of humour ❤

I use green scouring pads i cut ✂️ a line to the middle and then put it over the plant base like a collie around it 🌱 and slugs and snails don’t like it because it’s ruff and it dose work 🎉 give it a try

Hi Emma, Lorinda from Sout Africa, I use salt to kill slugs and snails to kill them. 🌸 Put them all in a container and pour salt over them, and then BINGO....

Add your banana skins to water leave for a week or two and use to water your tomato plants.I use a 5 litre water bottle and add 3 banana skin's.

Emma use organic slug pellets, they kill most off them. Also I have loads of song thrush birds around my garden that crack open the snail shells and eat the snails!! Good tip on using banana skins to feed the Tomatoes 😊I will try that.

I’m going to try Nemaslug - a specific nematode that is meant to destroy slugs

Your tomatoe plants look great. Soil seems to be quite warm now, so hope they do great.

Hi , dissolve some salt in your watering can and drop your collected slugs and snails in there. Good luck collecting them 🐚🐹🫥

Yay! You are using you shed without fear of spiders! You must have cleaned it out well. 😊

Hi Emma why don’t you collect all the slug in a pot and just tip them out on some waste ground on your why home or put the on the compost heap,

I heard from Charles Dowding another UK KZreadr and no dig enthusiast, that the slugs like to hide near the wood in raised beds. He eliminated this problem by keeping his raised beds no dig and eliminating the wood frames. I know of two methods: one is copper tape, but if not properly maintained that risks leaching into the soil and the other is providing a barrier between the lettuces, cabbages and whatnot by using a collar around each item. Like a cloche but for veg. Hope you find a way…

Hiya Emma, Love the Clematis. I think your allotment is a happy place for all who visit.Take care Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝

Yes, I have seen videos where they use beer in a small container to catch the slugs and they said it kills them. I also watched one where they used broken seashells to put around the plant area because they don't like rough areas. Another one used copper, but make sure it is touching the ground or they will crawl under it. Thank you Emma !

My slugs have been getting a trip into the garden waste bin when I find them, I don’t have the heart to kill them. I’m trying wool pellets around my veg🤞🏻 I’m being very optimistic I’m sure it’ll all be eaten in a few days 😂

Emma put salt in a container and drop them in the container. that’s what I do and it works perfectly also snails

I keep a jar with a screw top lid in the garden. Fill jar about half way up with water and add a good amount of table salt. This works but is a bit gross!

@joycehennequin8469

Ай бұрын

Way to go

@KymsHomestead

Ай бұрын

Also add vinegar to the water, it kills them instantly

If you pull a sucker/side shoot off a tomato plant and put it in some water it will root, as for the slugs in the water butt, not enough water in there really if it were half or full they would drown.

I wouldn't put banana AROUND the tomatoes because that would attract some birds and animals to dig and pull tomatoes and around. Rather you want to dig in that peal under or at least around the tomato plant, but definitely cover with soil enough so it is not visible but can decompose in the ground to give desired food to the plant.

RHUBARB .RHUBARB ! These plants are very hungry, so place plenty of manure around the plant but dont cover the crown. They are thirsty plants too, so regular watering is needed. I continue to enjoy your content. Today i have mixed up a garlic spray and applied to Dahlias and Hosters as a slug deterrent . I will report back on my results.

Set up beer traps for them. Get a rub or pot with no holes in and fill with cheap beer and dig it into the ground slightly. They’re attracted to the smell and die in it

Hi Emma, love your videos! I've come here to say that a natural way to repel slugs and snails would be to use tea leaves from used tea bags as you would slugless and strulch. It works for me, it may not work for you but it's worth a try! 😊 x

Love your idea of flowering climber. If you have a second over an arch how about a passion flower, then you'll get flower and fingers crossed a fruit!

Emma, try DE for your slug problem. As long as it is dry, it will work. It is made from finely ground up sea shells. Slugs won't cross it because it cuts their underbody. It's also a lot cheaper than SLUGO and those other commercial products.

@OurEcoLife

Ай бұрын

It won't stay dry for long in our climate so unfortunately that is not a solution for us.

You need to collect them and re-home them on the way home in the grassy wood bit you walk through. 😊

Hi Emma, just a little tip for you. Get a 2litre fizzy pop bottle and put a bit of water in the bottom, put slugs inside as you pick them up then when you’ve finished picking them all fill the whole bottle with water and seal then leave for a a few days and they’ll die

Emma, take your own advice as per your Allotment Garden Planner and use beer traps 'Jobs to do in May '. I have them all over my garden and work a treat

Put them in saltwater. But the best is just to cut them in two.

Blimey, this should have an 18 certificate! ;)

@jenkitching43

Ай бұрын

😂😂👍

@marieeab01

Ай бұрын

We’ve got strapping allotment blokes on our site and they think I’m a sadistic thug…surely not!

My mother was a great gardener! It was in her blood! She hated slugs! Mom put saucers of beer to attract them off her plants, then she would sprinkle salt on them to kill them! Easy!

Cover the slugs in cheap salt Emma.

Great Video.

Put them in very salty water the solution will work on both slug and snail

I love the jacket

Oh my 😫 slugs seem indestructible! I was out in the pouring rain yesterday trying to protect my plants/ veg. Noticed my pond plants were being totally destroyed by them, so was picking them off and transferring them to my compost bin, (i assumed that’s a good place for them, so they can get to work and keep out of trouble?). Accidentally dropped one in the pond and it merrily swam about right back to carry on eating my pond plants!!!! I could quite believe they can parachute 🪂 moonwalk do it all to keep eating out plants!!!! 💚 where are these good slug eating ones????

Hi Emma to get rid of slugs permanently will be salt any salt table salt will do just chuck it over them xxxx

Yes do the salt

That’s my girl….scissors our best slug weapon!

EDIT I stand corrected see comment below I really didn’t know this x Is there a hedgehog rescue centre nearby? If so you could take the slugs there, as long as you’ve not used any poison.

@laragallin7251

Ай бұрын

Hedgehogs don't actually eat that many slugs and snails. Bugs are their thing. More importantly, slugs carry a parasite called lungworm which can be fatal. Rescues spend a lot of time treating hedgehogs for it, they definitely don't want any.

@lucybarnard3954

Ай бұрын

@@laragallin7251 oh thank you I really didn’t know this, I’ve seen a hedgehog munching on a slug and we often hear about it, that’s awful that they are actually so dangerous for them. We need to spread the word on this thanks again for letting me know x

@laragallin7251

Ай бұрын

@@lucybarnard3954 I didn't know either until I joined a hedgehog group. I caught a hedgehog on camera chewing on a slug, even though the poor little mite had a broken jaw (RIP Stilton). Unfortunately, slugs are always eating the food people leave out for hedgehogs and some won't touch it if they've been sliming all over it. I had one who would take one sniff and walk off but another one who was a guts and would eat it regardless. It's hard not to get angry when you're doing what you can to help a species that's at risk and it's being hampered by one that's bloody everywhere 😠

Salt water Emma! Salt water!

Chickens love slugs & snails.

Salt is good for getting rid of slugs 🐌 and snails

Put some slate or stones round the base of your clematis to keep the roots cool. I have beautiful clematis's that have been in years that are covered in flowers and the only one that I didn't do this with failed miserably. Put your slugs in a container and sprinkle some salt on, that usually works 😂 good luck 👍👍

For slug and snail deterrent I’ve been mostly using plain flour. They cannot resist it, even during the daytime.

Try table salt. My kids used to kill them that way.

@andymerrett

Ай бұрын

Are they serial killers yet?

@dialecticcoma

Ай бұрын

@@andymerrett My nan used to make us do it... now I save bees outof water-butts lol

Beer traps... easiest way to get rid

As everyone is telling you salt water in a bucket put the slugs in you can also put cloves of garlic in a bottle of water for a week or longer then spray around the plants that helps keep them away as they don't like garlic good luck keep on trying

How to get rid of ur rubbish is take a carry bag home with u every time u go and put it in ur own bin xx hope this helps

Yes Emma the salt water is surely going to work for you so please get some on the plot but if you’re going to put it on them on the ground turn them over and put it on they belly if not they’re going to crawl out of it hope you succeed. ❤❤ but you don’t like to kill

I use a takeaway plastic container and fill it with beer and the slugs get drunk and die 😂 easy! Please try this I’m curious if it’ll work 🌷

Put a wheelie bin on the plot (!) Those pesky slugs will find a way inside and vanish from the plot. I've got half the slug population of Sothern England in mine, beats me how they get inside with the lid closed. Answers welcome 🤔

To save dosh and make an experiment you could chop the lower stems off the tomatoes . Pop in water to root. Then pop in the ground

Hi Emma . You’re doing a great job. Did you pinch the tops of your sweet peas, this makes them bush out quite quick. Just a thought. Ignore me if you already have 😂

Potassium is for making your tomatoes ripen.

fantastisch Good work Emma's you the best te planting Tomatoes moostiun thans te video Top week 🌺🤗👍🧤🍅🥔🐦🌿✔️🥤⛅🌸

I put my slugs (via a spade as I can’t pick them up) in the compost bin in the hope they won’t come back out. I’m too scared to kill them due to karma 😂. Love the flower up the shed idea, going to try that, my shed in a pinky shade

If you are into killing the slugs now. Salt kills them and you don't have to cut them in half.

Can you not collect them in a screw top jar with an air hole and just drop them off near a park or field later in the day? that's what I have been doing.

repeat the pellets after a few rainy days!! I've found that the rain kinda melts the slug pellets away after a few rainy days so there's a need to repeat the pellets.

Last year I was infested with slugs, so I was catching them and putting them in a bucket with salt, after doing that daily for over a month, I started using Dehner Natural Slug Pellets (the slug population shrinked to no longer a pest in a week) and kept catching them. This year, I had so far absolutely no slug damage and besides a few stragglers, all the slugs now live around the compost area, and I scissor every single one I see, still use pellets and hope they stay under control. Leaf miners have been a problem this year!

Table salt will kill slugs/snails. Either put it in the water or just sprinkle it on them.

I have a bucket of water but put James fluid in as well and that seem to do it

@kathmcgrane3492

Ай бұрын

JAYES FLUID

I was going to put my slugs in a bucket of water...I won't bother now 😮 What. CLematis is that? Good idea for the bench, looking forward to seeing that take shape. I totally agree about the staple gun. Thanks Emma, great channel ....I look forward to you posting!! ××

Don't buy new plants. Take side shoots and root them 💜

Pls use do beer traps.its very effective. Just try

Don't leave them dead in the water for too long, from experience they will begin to smell very bad very quickly, better to pour of the water into a bush somewhere to dry out and decompose

You can cut the bottom leaves of the tomatoes and put them in deeper

They can't swim in very salty water. You could put them in the compost bin where they are useful. Great episode : Emma and the Great Chainsaw Massacre😂

@davidcourt1047

Ай бұрын

... but putting salty water in your veg plot is not ideal

@angiemurphy2423

Ай бұрын

Put them in a tub of salt water, then dispose of the dead slugs. You really do have so many.

@andymerrett

Ай бұрын

I found snails in my compost bin and I still got rid of them as I figured they could get fed up and it's not far to the actual plants. Or they could be breeding in there.

I add lots of salt to water in a container with lid, collect the slugs and throw them in.

Beer trap - bury small jar fill with either beer or cider this seems to work best

I use a cheap cola from aldi & it kills them. I love the jacketxx

As one of the other people said pour salt on the slugs and snails it makes them explode and go more slimey

With the bananas you should put the skins in water for a few days, then water your tomatoes with the water.

Oh hell Emma the slugs and snails will love that banana 😯😏

My cabbages were taking slug damage, so last night I put brambles all around my cabbage bed (around the outside and also around the cabbages). There were no new signs of damage this morning, so I am hoping the problem is solved.

I’ve heard that salt kills them and beer, but I don’t know. I’ve never tried it.

Hi, have you tried salt. Put it around the parameter of the bed path side as it is bad for the soil. Good luck Linda.

Emma... we have much success to use beer in a margarine tub. Just a few ounces of beer attracts slugs or snails. Then they die

Hi Emma, After killing the slugs and snails, I leave them on the bird table, yum, yum. Einstein will love you for it.

Put the slugs and snails in a covered bucket of salt water.

I'd cover them in salt or fill a pot with table salt and put them in it x

Put salt in the water bucket. It doesn’t take much but works like a charm

Salt water or salt sprinkled on them will kill your slugs. Good luck!

I had to resort to salt for slugs, not to eat them with 😊

Emma you want to put some beer traps out ,slugs love a drop of beer that gets rid of little so and so's

Emma l never knew that slugs can swim would you believe it 😊

See if the birds will eat them, if not put salt on them.

I kept a big bucket of water and dish soap or hand soap and drop them in. Dies quickly.

Salt or beer traps Emma!

I’ve got a toad in my compost bin who is living on the slugs and snails 🐸