How to defeat the slugs?

In the afternoon, when the sun was hot, the inexperienced cottager does not even suspect that in a secluded place, where there is always wet and cool: under wood, piles of garbage, rusty bucket that many days worth of the area, hiding an enemy of gardeners - snail slugs. As soon as it gets dark or when will the rain, they crawl out to hunt and eat all that meet on your way. From vegetable and fruit crops and even ornamental plants are some roots.

Before you start destruction of gastropodsShould remember that they play a positive role in the life of the garden: snails and slugs - a "sanitation", processing the dead parts of plants. Therefore, experienced gardeners usually use soft methods of dealing with these garden pests using chemicals (eg, metaldehyde pellets) only a point and in extreme cases. In addition, it should be noted that not all slugs harm garden crops: Focus your attention on the field, the mesh and spotty.

Proper gardening

Any problem is better to prevent than to deal with its consequences. Prevention of occurrence and breeding of snails and slugs are such works as mulching, timely weed control, harvesting the leaves, twigs and other debris, proper selection of plants, Garter cucumbers and tomatoes, attracting birds and other enemies gastropods: hedgehogs, fireflies, frogs, toads. Forum users pointed out that the last - unpretentious: they may even live in a small pond of baby bath, without leaving your home for many years. The only condition - not to disturb them.

You can also enlist the help of microorganisms. Parasitic nematodes Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodit the biological killer snails. This method was used from spring to autumn when the soil temperature is not lower than + 5 ° C, preferably in wet weather. Means harmless for humans and animals and is easy to use: the microorganisms are diluted with water, which is poured plantings. Slugs are killed, and one watering protects plants for six weeks.

traps

When a portion to be removed all kinds of slugs seekers provide a replacement - traps of wet rags and boards, slate pieces, kleenok etc. You just have to wait until the pests zapolzut there, and then turn the traps and collect all those who hid there.

As an option - spread out on parts of the skin dome grapefruit halves with a small hole (Watermelon rinds, cabbage leaves): gastropods climb to the tasty bait, and in the morning you will find them there. The same method can be used as a diversion. Leaves favorite slugs cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, etc. attract pests, and they will not look for plants.

Member Forum Just Father proposes to make a trap out of a plastic bottle. Pour into it for a couple of tablespoons of beer smell spoons, which like slugs, and put them in places where snails and slugs wait for the night. Of the benefits - free material, simplicity of design and reusable. Empty the contents of the bottle recommends cottager in compost heaps.

It is not necessary to put live snails in cold kompostary: they lay eggs. Lay previously collected pests in warm salt water.

physical barriers

Taurus clams is very sensitive, any sharp objects lethal to snails and slugs. Gravel, crushed shells, chestnuts or eggshell, special granulates to combat slugs deprive pests to move around.

Plant protection products can be used plastic rims or hubcaps, film cover. Gardeners also offer to test copper adhesive tape or wire - this material gastropods receive electric shocks, so do not want to cross this barrier.

How else Gameday struggling with slugs:

• regular hoeing, sprinkling the bushes around the plants or their leaves after watering the ashes;
• watering saltwater;
• proryhlit clean and the soil, and then closed, for example, cabbage lutrasilom;
• soak at day 1 kg of tobacco waste in 10 liters of water, stir with a green soap, strain and spray the plants;
• leaves sprinkle spray gel tackiness, then sprinkle them with black pepper;
• evening, water the plants from a watering can with a solution of ammonia (4 tbsp. l. a bucket of water); means harmless to plants;
• watered culture tincture delphinium (a pound of chopped leaves and infuse it in a bucket of warm water for two days), mustard (100 g a bucket of water), hot pepper (1 kg or 0.5 kg of fresh dry pods pour water bucket insist 2-3 days, boil and 2 days insist);
• spread out between the rows nettles.

MARITA offers to try such remedies:

• planting flowers among the plants, smell and taste are not fond of insects and slugs: garlic, onions, marigolds, rosemary, thyme, plantain, lavender,
• watered 0.01% coffee solution: dissolve a double dose of a water soluble coffee cup.

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