
Foolproof slug/snail eradication????
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Use a glass jar with no air hole and the seedlings will probably overheat and die. You could try the top half of 2 litre water/cola etc bottles. They have a hole in the top and act as protection and a mini green house too.justskint wrote: Slugs don't like soot & sawdust, so I am told. At the moment I am using large glass coffee jars as cloches to keep em off, they have eaten 50% of my spinach seedlings.
They tried soot and sawdust in the GW trials and neither worked as a deterent. They didn't try the plank method though.
Use a glass jar with no air hole and the seedlings will probably overheat and die. You could try the top half of 2 litre water/cola etc bottles. They have a hole in the top and act as protection and a mini green house too.
OOOOOh Thanks for that. Suppose I raise the jar slightly off the ground with spacers, Will that work?
OOOOOh Thanks for that. Suppose I raise the jar slightly off the ground with spacers, Will that work?
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Went out armed with torch and penknife. Carnage, well, maybe not that much as it started to rain again, so 40 slugs lost. I read somewhere that a slug can lay 500 eggs a year, so an early start on slaying.....
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I do that - people collect plastic bottles for me to use as cloches.justskint wrote:Use a glass jar with no air hole and the seedlings will probably overheat and die. You could try the top half of 2 litre water/cola etc bottles. They have a hole in the top and act as protection and a mini green house too.
OOOOOh Thanks for that. Suppose I raise the jar slightly off the ground with spacers, Will that work?
I normally put a light sprinkling of slug pellets around the base of the plant and put the half plastic bottle on top.
It worked very well for the lettuces last year.... the local bunnies enjoyed the results very much.


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I'm not sure. Hot air rises so I don't think propping it up at the bottom will help - just let the slugs in! Also glass is a massive insulator and in such a confined space I reckon your seedlings will die. I would swap the glass for plastic bottles to be certain.justskint wrote: OOOOOh Thanks for that. Suppose I raise the jar slightly off the ground with spacers, Will that work?
Re: collecting slugs after dark...If you use the plank method you don't need to go out with a torch. Just collect from the plank in daylight. Minimum effort - maximum harvest.
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i use a torch and scissors. you have to be quick with the snails and snip their little heads off before they go back in their shells - the crunching of shell is just too unpleasant. also, don't look too closely at what comes out of the slugs (especially if you catch them on your strawberries).
i also had a slug bucket last year, with salty water in it, but i ended up with an awful gloopy mess and i didn't really know what to do with it (because of the salt); much easier just to leave the bisected corpses around the garden for the night creatures to look after.
jane
i also had a slug bucket last year, with salty water in it, but i ended up with an awful gloopy mess and i didn't really know what to do with it (because of the salt); much easier just to leave the bisected corpses around the garden for the night creatures to look after.
jane