Slug Alarm
Ten days ago, I planted the vegetable bed in the garden: carrots, radishes, lettuce, and kohlrabi. I was very proud and happy, until I discovered that not only do slugs love lettuce, there also is a sizeable slug population in my garden – either that, or they have an excellent sense of smell. They have since razed the lettuce.
What am I to do now? I could easily plant more lettuce, but how to defend it against the invaders? Or have you got any suggestions what else I could plant that slugs don’t eat? I am grateful for your advice!
– Rike Horstmann
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i can eat raw lettuce because i love to munch them, they are really very tasty ,:’
i can eat raw lettuce because i love to munch them, they are really very tasty :**
i can munch a lot of grapefruit in a couple of minutes, that is really my favorite fruit ;’`
i can munch a lot of grapefruit in a couple of minutes, that is really my favorite fruit ”,
grapefruit have lots of anti-oxidant that is also good for the heart”:~
grapefruit have lots of anti-oxidant that is also good for the heart~“
we have a grapefruit plant on our home backyard and the fresh fruits taste so much better~'”
we have a grapefruit plant on our home backyard and the fresh fruits taste so much better`~*
i love to eat pickled lettuce and also raw lettuce, it really taste great`,.
i love to eat pickled lettuce and also raw lettuce, it really taste great:;;
i like to make some Grapefruit tea at home, it taste really great*.’
we always use grapefruit on our dessert and this is a fruit that is full of antioxidants too.`.;
i love to eat freshly picked lettuce.~:”
my girlfriend has a grape fruit plantation in their backyard and we always taste some of the harvest.,.”
I absolutely hate slugs!
1) picking them off manually at night, by far the best method but nasty work
2) beer traps, hasn’t always worked for me though (then again, the Dutch don’t like Heineken either, that’s why they export it)
3) upside down (and empty) grapefruit halves, they crawl under it during the night, empty them during the day
4) don’t clean everything up – leave old and half decayed leaves lying underneath e.g. your hostas, they prefer those – doesn’t help with nice, tender young lettuce leaves though
5) use tubs and companion planting, plant lettuce leaves and alternate with members of the onion family – I’ve had some luck with this method
5) plant your vegetables in tubs, boxes or even raised beds with a 1cm broad copper strip around it, slugs and snails can’t pass this because it reacts with their slime or they get a shock – haven’t tried this one yet, but this method seems to have great results
Using sharp grit, stones, coffee drags or whatever has never ever helped me.
Please, please don’t use poison, no matter how environmental-friendly they may be, they always kill other animals.
I always use beer. Pour some beer in a plastic bowl (the cheapest stuff from Aldi is good for this) and bury the bowl with the beer near the affected vegetable patch. You may have to use more than one bowl.
The slugs are attracted by the beer smell and promptly drown.
I don’t plant vegetables anymore…only flowers, perennials and annuals. When I did plant veggies, we would do the beer thing that Tee suggested. Actually, my father did it for me. He would bury small cans, like the size of tuna cans, to the surface and fill that with beer. It seemed to work and it”s a natural solution rather than spraying.
I used to get them around my hostas. One way I eliminated them was, in the fall, to trim the hostas quite low, then clean the debris around the plant. That gave them no room to hide during the winter.
Another way that seems pretty tried and true (although I’ve never done it), is to place a shallow bowls of beer around the plants which they hide. They’re attracted to the yeast in the beer and will crawl in and drown.
Some say to just pick them off manually (yuck) and drown them in water. I know they’re living creatures and all that, but they sure can do some major damage to ornamental and other useful plants. Google different sites and get some other ideas. Good luck.