**SNAILS & SLUGS ?????**I'm thinking of using this.

[Hattie the Hen]

Due to the recent wet weather I have been having a lot of trouble with slugs on & around my runner beans so I have been search for new solutions for our age-old problem.

I have just found this:-

http://www.electricfencingsolutions.co.uk/SnailAway/

I had been reading this:-

http://www.50connect.co.uk/home_and...and__slugs_this_summer/zap_slugs__and__snails

As I grow a lot of my veg in raised beds which are fairly small it would be possible.

What do you think?

:rose Hattie :rose

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Sure it might work. I was listening to a gardening program on the radio and they were discussing slug problems and it sounded like no one had a foolproof method, but I'm not sure that I remember them discussing an electric fence for snail/slugs. I do remember they didn't have much positive to say about the copper tape (or whatever it is) that some people have used. Seems like it was more common that people are plucking them and throwing them in the neighbor's yard.

My low tech method for detering slugs that works pretty well is to surround whatever plants need protection with a mulch of used coffee grounds. It works just great for me. Supposedly the slugs really do not like the caffeine.

 

[noobiechickenlady]

I'll have to try the coffee grounds. I usually put mine in my compost heap.
I've had success using small shallow bowls of beer. I caught 12 slugs in one night with one bowl this way.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Yeah, noobiechickenlady, beer works, but then you have to clean up the mess.

Coffee grounds have the extra benefit of adding nitrogen to the soil.

 

[noobiechickenlady]

Definitely

Crushed eggshells help too, and add calcium, but those usually go to my chickens.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Good point. Eggshells are a relatively scarce resource around here too, though. Most go back to my birds too.

 

[4grandbabies]

I dont know about slugs, but recently someone suggest that crushing egg shells and mixing with used coffee grounds will help repel those little green worms that destroy broccoli and cabbage. Is this true? has anyone tried it?

 

[wifezilla]

I use these....

Mind you, the plants have to be protected or they will also clear those out Did you know ducks like basil? I do NOW!

In the front yard where I have my beans (and the ducks can't go), slugs, earwigs and pill bugs have done a number on several of the plants. DE works to a point but you have to keep reapplying.

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Beautiful photos wifezilla.

I've been scouting around a bit more & found that my favourite stand-by, Epsom Salts is suppose to hold off the dreaded slugs -- typically I've just run out........... ..........I'll have to wait till Monday now. Still at least it's stopped raining & it's very warm.

Here's one of the sites I found:-

http://www.momstalknetwork.com/resources/mommys-little-helper-epson-salt/

Hope it works! If any of you use it could you let us know if it's at all successful, please.

:rose Hattie :rose

 

[mener6896]

does DE work for slugs?