Does anyone have any good ways to deter slugs? Preferably without using slug pellets.... My strawberries are looking really good and healthy but I have noticed quite a few leaves are being eaten and there are slug trails on them

Bennewby wrote:
Does anyone have any good ways to deter slugs? Preferably without
using slug pellets.... My strawberries are looking really good and
healthy but I have noticed quite a few leaves are being eaten and
there are slug trails on them




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Bennewby

Small saucers of beer. Quart-size jar lids work well .

--
Snag
Learning keeps
you young !

"Bennewby" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any good ways to deter slugs? Preferably without using
slug pellets.... My strawberries are looking really good and healthy but
I have noticed quite a few leaves are being eaten and there are slug
trails on them


Crush up some eggshells and sprinkle them around the plants.

Also try gently pulling apart steel wool pads and placing them on the ground
around the plants.
--S.

On Sun, 29 May 2011 15:17:36 -0600, "Suzanne"
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"Bennewby" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any good ways to deter slugs? Preferably without using
slug pellets.... My strawberries are looking really good and healthy but
I have noticed quite a few leaves are being eaten and there are slug
trails on them


Crush up some eggshells and sprinkle them around the plants.


The traditional remedy is ground razor blades not eggshell as eggshell
will raise the pH of your soil. For those who don't shave try broken
glass.

Also try gently pulling apart steel wool pads and placing them on the ground
around the plants.
--S.


Slugs laugh at wool of all kinds.

Push toothpicks into the soil about halfway with the pointy end up.
These micro punji sticks will clean your fingernails as you pick the
berries too. Don't lean down to smell the flowers though.


D

On 5/29/2011 11:52 AM, Snag wrote:
Bennewby wrote:
Does anyone have any good ways to deter slugs? Preferably without
using slug pellets.... My strawberries are looking really good and
healthy but I have noticed quite a few leaves are being eaten and
there are slug trails on them




--
Bennewby

Small saucers of beer. Quart-size jar lids work well .

Beer works. You can also put out boards on the ground for the slugs to
crawl under and remove them from there.

"Snag" wrote in message
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Bennewby wrote:
Does anyone have any good ways to deter slugs? Preferably without
using slug pellets.... My strawberries are looking really good and
healthy but I have noticed quite a few leaves are being eaten and
there are slug trails on them




--
Bennewby

Small saucers of beer. Quart-size jar lids work well .

--
Snag
Learning keeps
you young !


Try some fresh ground coffee (not coffee grounds). The caffeine gives them
fits.

"Bennewby" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any good ways to deter slugs? Preferably without using
slug pellets.... My strawberries are looking really good and healthy but
I have noticed quite a few leaves are being eaten and there are slug
trails on them




--
Bennewby



I heard you can surround your garden with sand and pick the ones out In the
middle. Then no more will go in. Cuz it cuts their little fat bellies.

"Bennewby" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any good ways to deter slugs? Preferably without using
slug pellets.... My strawberries are looking really good and healthy but
I have noticed quite a few leaves are being eaten and there are slug
trails on them

Saucers of stale beer or Marmite in water or other yeast in water mixes.

"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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On Sun, 29 May 2011 15:17:36 -0600, "Suzanne"


Also try gently pulling apart steel wool pads and placing them on the
ground
around the plants.



Slugs laugh at wool of all kinds.

Not the ones that tried to crawl over my steel wool and got shredded up
before my eyes.
--S.

"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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"Bennewby" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any good ways to deter slugs? Preferably without using
slug pellets.... My strawberries are looking really good and healthy but
I have noticed quite a few leaves are being eaten and there are slug
trails on them

Saucers of stale beer or Marmite in water or other yeast in water mixes.



Thats what I should do with my god forsaken Marmite. And Vegymite.

Give it to the slugs.

Thanks

On Mon, 30 May 2011 03:57:56 -0400, "DogDiesel"
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"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote in message
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"Bennewby" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any good ways to deter slugs? Preferably without using
slug pellets.... My strawberries are looking really good and healthy but
I have noticed quite a few leaves are being eaten and there are slug
trails on them

Saucers of stale beer or Marmite in water or other yeast in water mixes.



Thats what I should do with my god forsaken Marmite. And Vegymite.

Give it to the slugs.

Thanks


If you lack the gene for it Vegemite will never be food, if you have
it then it is the first thing after mother's milk.

D

On Mon, 30 May 2011 16:45:18 +1000, "FarmI" ask@itshall be given
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"Bennewby" wrote in message
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Does anyone have any good ways to deter slugs? Preferably without using
slug pellets.... My strawberries are looking really good and healthy but
I have noticed quite a few leaves are being eaten and there are slug
trails on them

Saucers of stale beer or Marmite in water or other yeast in water mixes.


Beer, OK. But Marmite? That's just out and out sadistic cruelty!

Ross.

My dad used to use those little plastic tubs you get Chinese food in, sink them flush to the soil near his veggies and fill em with cheap beer combined with hand picking them from all over the garden at night.

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godkingross wrote:

Bennewby;924555 Wrote:
Does anyone have any good ways to deter slugs? Preferably without using
slug pellets.... My strawberries are looking really good and healthy but
I have noticed quite a few leaves are being eaten and there are slug
trails on them

My dad used to use those little plastic tubs you get Chinese food in,
sink them flush to the soil near his veggies and fill em with cheap beer
combined with hand picking them from all over the garden at night.


If slugs are a huge problem, you need to remove their habitat by raking
up your mulch in spring and composting it. Then, start your garden in
open soil, and wait until early summer to add a fresh blanket of mulch.
You still may have problems because your soil may be well stocked with
slug eggs. A few years ago, a U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist
found that crabgrass contains a substance toxic to slugs. Since then,
many backyard slug slayers have experimented with crabgrass cookies,
which are made by mixing chopped, dried crabgrass leaves with corn bran,
cornstarch and beer. The baits are then placed beneath plants, where the
slugs eat them and die.

Another option is spraying coffee on plants that are plagued with slugs.
Caffeine in any form ‹ including a few No-Doz tablets mixed with water ‹
is a slug neurotoxin that will kill these unwanted pests.

When you¹re down to only a few slugs, you can fall back on the
traditional organic control, which is to trap them with beer. Put an
inch or so of any beer in a cup, bury it in the garden nearly to the
rim, and collect your drowned slugs in the morning. Or, put some beer in
plastic drink bottles and lay them on their sides in the garden. The
slugs will crawl in and drown. Dump them out and start over again every
few days.
---

Or if you are tired of night patrol, see:
http://www.ecoact.org/PDF/ipm_factsheets/SnailSlg.101.pdf

and look at the section about Iron Phosphates.

It is only poisonous to snails and slugs, and has been added to human
food as a nutrient enhancer.
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On May 29, 8:56*am, Bennewby
wrote:
Does anyone have any good ways to deter slugs? Preferably without using
slug pellets.... My strawberries are looking really good and healthy but
I have noticed quite a few leaves are being eaten and there are slug
trails on them

--
Bennewby

if you can or can find a way... get some COPPER "shavings" and place
them around the plants upon which you wish to save. you can usually
find or buy copper shavings at lumber/timber yards; metal 'carving'
stores; best bet, tho' is through an art supply store; even a frame
shop is sure to have what you need!! ---- if you go to one or all of
those places, you can tell them your sad story, even bring a leaf or 2
with the place(s) you go to and lay it on thickly.
OR!! BEST THING of ALL? get up at dawnlight or e'vning light; grab
a pair of tongs which REALLY close tightly; and a 3lb. EMPTY can of
coffee in which you fill with approximately 1/2 of the can with salt
water; ratio of salt:water... 2/3 table salt to 1/3 tap water.
when you find tracks of the slugs, use the tongs OR a garden-gloved
hand to pick up EVERY slug you see and place DIRECTLY into salt
water!! do NOT for ANY REASON fill the can with PLAIN water, dump
slugs/snails into THAT and then go to dump can of plain water, slugs/
snails onto nearest concrete or cemented pavement and try to stomp the
life out of them..... because, GET THIS: ALL SNAILS &/OR SLUGS lead
a double life: they are ALL hermaphrodites--meaning they are all male
and female at the same time AND the females carry their eggs which are
encased in a plastic-type of casing which is ALMOST impossible to
break unless you have a KNIFE with you to CUT INTO the
casings!!!!!!!!!!!!
on the other hand, the salt water "smothers" them--cuts off their
ability to survive: TOTALLY!!!!!!!

PHEW!!!!!!!! i sure hope this answers your question(s)?!!!?

warm regards from "suddenly" zone 6 in western new hamster.