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How do I stop slugs eating my lupins?

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I've tried everything - coffee grinds, beer, grit, but nothing works. I can't put down glass cos of my pooch and don't want to use pellets. Any ideas?

Thanks

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I've tried everything - coffee grinds, beer, grit, but nothing works. I can't put down glass cos of my pooch and don't want to use pellets. Any ideas?

Thanks

D x


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I've tried everything - coffee grinds, beer, grit, but nothing works. I can't put down glass cos of my pooch and don't want to use pellets. Any ideas?

Thanks

D x


Sluggo is an effective slug and snail killing bait that can be used around pets and wildlife. Use Sluggo for organic gardening to control slugs and snails in vegetables and ornamentals. You can also use chewing tobacco, but Some dogs like chewing tobacco, and chewing tobacco does not like dogs!



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I've tried everything - coffee grinds, beer, grit, but nothing works. I can't put down glass cos of my pooch and don't want to use pellets. Any ideas?

Thanks

D x


http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Garden-Slugs

Usually they like wet/humid places, remove those places and trim your grass that surrounds your flowers. I've got problems with them as they ate my strawberries, there was nothing that I've could do except make way for the sun to 'shower' the ground (I dislike using pesticides and artificial means). Also, they attacked few vegetables (cabbage) so I've removed any and every green plan (other that vegetable) from that area (i.e. weeds). From what I know, snails reproduce themselves by laying eggs in ground when it rains and in the humid season. Slugs and snails need humidity as they need humidity for them to breath (something similar to how worms work).

I'm not sure but, you can try to throw some salt or ash around the area (make a circle around the flower bed) ?

Good luck!
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Sluggo is an effective slug and snail killing bait that can be used around pets and wildlife. Use Sluggo for organic gardening to control slugs and snails in vegetables and ornamentals. You can also use chewing tobacco, but Some dogs like chewing tobacco, and chewing tobacco does not like dogs!





I don't want to kill them, hence no pellets

Thanks anyway x

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http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Garden-Slugs

Usually they like wet/humid places, remove those places and trim your grass that surrounds your flowers. I've got problems with them as they ate my strawberries, there was nothing that I've could do except make way for the sun to 'shower' the ground (I dislike using pesticides and artificial means). Also, they attacked few vegetables (cabbage) so I've removed any and every green plan (other that vegetable) from that area (i.e. weeds). From what I know, snails reproduce themselves by laying eggs in ground when it rains and in the humid season. Slugs and snails need humidity as they need humidity for them to breath (something similar to how worms work).

I'm not sure but, you can try to throw some salt or ash around the area (make a circle around the flower bed) ?

Good luck!


Okay, Thank you! x

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I Googled this and came up with Nematodes


Hmmmm... I like the idea of a natural solution. I'll give the little nemmies a go!

Thanks Katie



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To be honest, if your garden is (like mine) a very slug and snail infested place because of the orientation and soil make up then I think that the answer is to not grow lupins or hostas or anything else that they will eat and then you're home and dry.

My garden gets no sun at all for 6 months of the year but is a sun trap in summer. This is caused by the height of the surrounding buildings and there's nothing I can do to stop my garden being shady from equinox to equinox. Combine this with a very heavy soil and the whole place is nirvana for gastropods. For that reason I gave up planting things that they really like and leave them instead with things like Euonymus and Sarcococca which they can't be bothered to chew through smile
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I've tried everything - coffee grinds, beer, grit, but nothing works. I can't put down glass cos of my pooch and don't want to use pellets. Any ideas?

Thanks

D x


We've used the nematodes. They are expensive, but they're easy to store (in the fridge in the container) until the next treatment, and easy to apply (with a watering can). They made a huge difference, and recommend it to our friends.

Edit: You can also go out in the evening after rain, or when you've watered, and collect them. I put them in the green bin, so they can nom away to their hearts' content until they go to the composting place. Death comes to us all, but at least they go happy.
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We've used the nematodes. They are expensive, but they're easy to store (in the fridge in the container) until the next treatment, and easy to apply (with a watering can). They made a huge difference, and recommend it to our friends.

Edit: You can also go out in the evening after rain, or when you've watered, and collect them. I put them in the green bin, so they can nom away to their hearts' content until they go to the composting place. Death comes to us all, but at least they go happy.


Ah thank you. The thing is, I hardly ever see the slugs, but I can plant lupins and withing two days they're munched to nothing! I'm deffo goona try them. I assume the local garden centre will sell them

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To be honest, if your garden is (like mine) a very slug and snail infested place because of the orientation and soil make up then I think that the answer is to not grow lupins or hostas or anything else that they will eat and then you're home and dry.

My garden gets no sun at all for 6 months of the year but is a sun trap in summer. This is caused by the height of the surrounding buildings and there's nothing I can do to stop my garden being shady from equinox to equinox. Combine this with a very heavy soil and the whole place is nirvana for gastropods. For that reason I gave up planting things that they really like and leave them instead with things like Euonymus and Sarcococca which they can't be bothered to chew through smile


I love lupins, so not giving up... yet. Unless the Scouse snails are a bit more tenacious than regular ones!

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I love lupins, so not giving up... yet. Unless the Scouse snails are a bit more tenacious than regular ones!


It quoted the wrong bit, sorry. We got our nematodes online. We do have a couple of specialist garden centres here, but they don't stock them.

We also have lupins. Before treatment, Mother can be heard yelling, "DAWGONNIT, STUPID CRITTERS!". She doesn't use regular swearwords, but if I was a slug and heard her yelling like she does, I'd shrivel up and die instantly.

The easiest way to get them off the lupins (if you're being slug-friendly) is to go out just after dark and physically pick them off (I wear gloves if I do that, use a trowel to scrape them off and put them in a pot, which then gets emptied in the green bin). You have to search right under the leaves and in amongst all the surrounding plants. When we're not using nematodes (didn't manage it this summer), we do use pellets, sorry.

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A shallow bowl or saucer of beer has always worked for me...in the backyard I have two chickens, Lucy and Julie, who looooove delicious slugs. Ducks, which I don't have, do love snails. Maybe some kind of combination approach?


I've used to five snails to my chickens. But, I've gave up as I've changed places and didn't find more and.. I've realized that snails can have parasites that can be transfered to other animals.

@OP - use their habitat and prefferences against them. Even if there's plenty of shadows in the garden, if the wet area is small - only to flowers, you can limit their spreading - water your flowers only when it's needed. You can also try to plant your flowers when they are a bit bigger not as saplings or by planting seeds directly in the soil - you can use plastic cups (single use) with a bit soil in them.

Good luck!
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Or maybe diamtomaceous earth?
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Snails or slugs emit a wet trail that if contacts a bare copper wire will electrocute them it also comes in a tape form if the plants are in containers simply place it along the sides, also a table salt barrier will eat them away.