Thank you for visiting Gaz and Tom! It was an absolute pleasure sharing the garden with you - keep up the great work! Hopefully the slugs and snails are kind to you for the remainder of this growing season 🐌🐌
Your approach to stopping slugs from destroying the garden organically shows a deep respect for nature's balance. It’s inspiring to see how you nurture your garden with care and mindfulness, preserving its beauty in the most natural way. And I am Floating Village Life.
This wholesome, natural way of gardening Gaz has been promoting is such a wonderful way of seeing nature. We are just managing the space, but nature owns it. I really love that!!! 😍😍😍
we have many slugs here but they never touched my garden simply because I feed them; they love cat kibbles, and in the right season I see them congregating around the kibbles to eat them, so they are happy and my garden is happy too!
Thank you for this tip! We'll have to try that next year. This year the slugs were absolute engines of destruction in our garden, all that helped a little was catching & freezing them.
Fabulous episode. I guess you could buy wool from a farm animal rescue sanctuary, as the rescued sheep still need shearing, but will still live a happy full life…without slaughter! Loved all the tips! Thank you both gentlemen 😊
Absolutely fantastic footage on preventing slug damage. Thank you so much. I want to add that through the years I've been using used coffee grounds the slugs become disoriented when traveling through the coffee grounds. My understanding is that it does not kill them but I have found it to work very well especially on my hostas
Leopard slugs only eat dead plants and other slugs. So he's right about letting them be just in case you get rid of the wrong ones. Also a big fan of giving them my veggie and fruit scraps to munch on to protect my plants. Some really good advice in this video. Always lovely to see what my Welsh brethren are managing to grow here 😊
This is so useful, slugs and snails have wrecked my garden this year, I've never known it so bad. The worst hit were the beans and courgettes. I'm going to make some of that garlic spray for my cabbages.
The way I have always gotten rid of snails is in my opinion one of the best ways to go out! I get them drunk! I get small plastic cups. Put them in the ground about rim high may be a little higher in the ground. Fill them up about a quarter of a wave with beer. This did so well the second season I tried it. I only was catching baby scales and slugs. By the third year, I was completely free of them! I don’t have a problem with drinking the beer because when I’m never liked beer, two… I have a gluten allergy, and three you don’t have to take them wine and dining. Get the cheap stuff.
We have a garden pond in the middle of our garden and it attracts 5 different species of frogs and toads. The toads do an amazing job at keeping the slugs and squash bugs under control.
What a beautiful garden Adam! And I love what you said about we are just looking after the gardens for nature, such a wonderful way to think of it. Thanks for the great tips!
This video and Adam was worth its weight in gold. I only have a balcony garden, but I’m on the ground floor and I get slugs CONSTANTLY. I’ve used chicken manure wool this year which has been okay, but I’m going to try the garlic and pepper spray - great tips!! If I had room I’d definitely get the duck solution though 🦆💜 Great, great video!!
Love this video, and love Adam! I can't believe you wouldn't hold the snails, Gaz 😮 I love snails ❤ I don't mind them being killed naturally, but I can't kill them. When my daughter was young, as soon as it started raining we'd be out with buckets collecting them and taking them to the local fields 😊
I also had many slugs in my garden this year, this was really helpful. I thought I knew English well, until I listened to this guy his accent is so hard to listen to, thank god for youtube subtitles.
Gaz you won’t even believe it but today I was out battling the leopard slugs we have here in the pacific north west of USA. And then I come in from the sun now and your video is here like it was made just for me today. Thanks so much for this and for Adam and his amazing info. I want ducks now for sure. Always love your content your wonderful Gaz keep it up and just like he said your garden wasn’t there before now all the slugs have told all the other slugs to come on over.
Btw the big slug you've got in your hand in the thumbnail is a Leopard slug and it won't eat your plants in fact you'll want as many of them in your garden since they only eat rotting vegetation, fungi and other slugs.
If you have alot of slugs or snails get a few ducks. Let them rome your garden every so often. Let nature do the work. If you have a insect problem find a insect that eats it and introduce it to your garden. Takes a few years but i noticed when i did it. The first few years i kept. Adding them to my garden but i new they wouldn't stay. So i kept adding them till i noticed them being there without me doing anything. Took 3 years and my bug problem was managed and didn't get out of control.
I’ve used coffee grounds around my lettuces, after finding the slugs had eaten a few. Seems to have helped. My problem this year has been aphids, particularly black ones, they have destroyed my beans and peas ugh!
Copper tape, diatomaceous earth can both fight slugs. Also, planting carrot seeds too deep prevents germination. Some seeds need sunlight-not full sunlight, but some sunlight that can reach them beneath the ground, and planting them too deep doesn’t let enough get to them.
Oh, Adam is so charming. Great video full of helpful tips! I don't usually struggle with slug pressure, but our unusually mild winter (for us here in Wisconsin) and wet spring drew them out in droves!
Eyyyy brother. Was great meeting you at Vegan Campout, even if it was brief. Hope to run into you another time where we can deep dive on Orgonite, copper spirals and geometric shapes. 😂👌 Respect, dude.
I’m a hairdresser and I use all the hair cuttings but this year there has been way more slugs so I have taken to feeding them with veg cuttings away from veg patch seems to be working so far.
This is fantastic information! I'm in New Zealand and spring is like a plant massacre where I live. I've always thought of creating a transportable slug and snail haven to move over to a chicken coop daily ... requires chickens though 😅
this is made for me lol, theyre literally eating everything!! couple never even got to grow lol and also, my strawberries are under attack every day, its like a slug army, im not kidding im trying to remove them at night and theres like 30+ slugs in our LITTLE patch of like 9 plants... (babys and adults) its the worst slug year fr..
From a different channel. Keep away from cats and dogs. Similar to beer trap. 1 cup of flour, 1 packet of yeast. Keep dry in a container. When needed put some (maybe a big spoon full) in a beer-like trap, mix in some water to get a runny consistency. Put in garden and catch some snails.
This is such a good video Gaz, excellent info. Sucks when you have such a good video like this and it doesn’t get the clicks like your other videos do (they are all good but I hope you know what I mean!).
Does he have any ideas for squash bugs, aphids, cucumber beetles, and squash vine borers? I would really love some tips for those they nearly destroyed my garden this year and I rather not kill them! 😢💙💙💙
Gaz, don’t your neighbors have sheep that we’ve seen in your previous videos? They were so cute, but maybe they can give you some wool for your garden. There was really good info in this video and the ducks were so cute. As for they cayenne pepper and garlic, I’ve heard of that one before as well and I’ve also seen people use salt for the slugs and they say that works as well. I enjoyed some of your guest Adam’s many remedies, he is very knowledgeable. 😊
Slow worms are better at slug control than ducks. They live 20 years plus and feed almost exclusively on slugs. All you need is a few corrugated sheets laid in sunny spots on top of grass. You just have to get over the fact they look a bit like snakes Gaz, but remember they are actually legless lizards. And they are super cute. Porridge oats are also a good organic slug control. Keep them under a slate to keep them dry. The slugs will shelter under the slate, consume the oats and die fat and happy. The oats swell inside the slugs. If any other predator eats the slugs they won't be affected by the oats. As I always say, if you wouldn't eat the poison you put down, then don't put it down.
@@susanthomas7566 I think what you call Rollie pollies and what I call Rollie pollies are maybe two different things. For me it's rolling down a grassy hill lengthways. No oats or slugs included. 🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂 🙃
This is gold information 😮
Adam is so knowledgeable 🙏
@@gazoakleychef Thank you for this ... Amazing tips !!!
Thank you for visiting Gaz and Tom! It was an absolute pleasure sharing the garden with you - keep up the great work!
Hopefully the slugs and snails are kind to you for the remainder of this growing season 🐌🐌
Hi Adam, love your garden!! What type of ducks do you have? I really like their colours.
Watching your videos is like deep meditation.
I could listen to him talk for ages, the Welsh accent is so beautiful and he's such a laugh 😆
Your approach to stopping slugs from destroying the garden organically shows a deep respect for nature's balance. It’s inspiring to see how you nurture your garden with care and mindfulness, preserving its beauty in the most natural way. And I am Floating Village Life.
This wholesome, natural way of gardening Gaz has been promoting is such a wonderful way of seeing nature. We are just managing the space, but nature owns it. I really love that!!! 😍😍😍
Adam is such a delight!
Heart of gold
Wow that guy is a pro! What a garden, lovely balance of nature. Thankyou for showing this.
we have many slugs here but they never touched my garden simply because I feed them; they love cat kibbles, and in the right season I see them congregating around the kibbles to eat them, so they are happy and my garden is happy too!
Thank you for this tip! We'll have to try that next year. This year the slugs were absolute engines of destruction in our garden, all that helped a little was catching & freezing them.
What?!
Your gonna run into huge problem in years
@@napalmjayhee no, that's not true, it's been 15 years now like that
That is cute. I want to try this next season.
Fabulous episode. I guess you could buy wool from a farm animal rescue sanctuary, as the rescued sheep still need shearing, but will still live a happy full life…without slaughter!
Loved all the tips! Thank you both gentlemen 😊
Thanks for the tips!
oh yes! i was just thinking wool isn't vegan.. but the rescue centers are a brilliant idea
Never heard of Adam, just subscribed to him, ta Gaz. Your videos are a breath of fresh air from all the negative things in the world. Keep it up 👍
This is the best tip ever! We just welcomed two lovely sheep to our family, so now we've got free slug-proofing next year!
Oh my gosh, finally so many ways to deal.with the snails in my vegetable garden. Thank you so much,!!!
Absolutely fantastic footage on preventing slug damage. Thank you so much. I want to add that through the years I've been using used coffee grounds the slugs become disoriented when traveling through the coffee grounds. My understanding is that it does not kill them but I have found it to work very well especially on my hostas
That was great to watch! What a lovely guy! And such a beautiful garden!
Beer! the only slug eliminator I use. Works amazingly well with no effort!
This is amazing. Sharing it in a Danish gardening group. Slugs have absolutely destroyed a lot of Danish gardens this year. Thank you!
I’ve had so many slugs in my garden this year, so this is super helpful! I love that there is always so much to learn about gardening
Leopard slugs only eat dead plants and other slugs. So he's right about letting them be just in case you get rid of the wrong ones. Also a big fan of giving them my veggie and fruit scraps to munch on to protect my plants. Some really good advice in this video. Always lovely to see what my Welsh brethren are managing to grow here 😊
Best slug video ever created ❤
This is so useful, slugs and snails have wrecked my garden this year, I've never known it so bad. The worst hit were the beans and courgettes. I'm going to make some of that garlic spray for my cabbages.
The way I have always gotten rid of snails is in my opinion one of the best ways to go out! I get them drunk! I get small plastic cups. Put them in the ground about rim high may be a little higher in the ground. Fill them up about a quarter of a wave with beer. This did so well the second season I tried it. I only was catching baby scales and slugs. By the third year, I was completely free of them! I don’t have a problem with drinking the beer because when I’m never liked beer, two… I have a gluten allergy, and three you don’t have to take them wine and dining. Get the cheap stuff.
We have a garden pond in the middle of our garden and it attracts 5 different species of frogs and toads. The toads do an amazing job at keeping the slugs and squash bugs under control.
What a beautiful garden Adam! And I love what you said about we are just looking after the gardens for nature, such a wonderful way to think of it. Thanks for the great tips!
Glad you enjoyed it!
My GOODNESS listen to THAT!!!! What an accent. Will play for my dad! Love it!!
What a great guest! Super interesting tips, thoroughly enjoyed this one!
This video and Adam was worth its weight in gold. I only have a balcony garden, but I’m on the ground floor and I get slugs CONSTANTLY. I’ve used chicken manure wool this year which has been okay, but I’m going to try the garlic and pepper spray - great tips!! If I had room I’d definitely get the duck solution though 🦆💜 Great, great video!!
Love this video, and love Adam! I can't believe you wouldn't hold the snails, Gaz 😮 I love snails ❤ I don't mind them being killed naturally, but I can't kill them. When my daughter was young, as soon as it started raining we'd be out with buckets collecting them and taking them to the local fields 😊
he is such a brilliant gardener, I really love his tipps, so invaluable.... will need to try some of his ideas next year
It's almost like magic. I think I'm going to spend my next life in Wales.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for this content!
You're so welcome!
stewards over our gardens.. lovely
What a lovely knowledgeable guy.
Shout out to Tom. The editing and music was particularly beautiful in this one.
Glad you enjoyed it!
So many great ideas for dealing with slugs in a natural way! Thanks so much to you both!
I also had many slugs in my garden this year, this was really helpful. I thought I knew English well, until I listened to this guy his accent is so hard to listen to, thank god for youtube subtitles.
Gaz you won’t even believe it but today I was out battling the leopard slugs we have here in the pacific north west of USA. And then I come in from the sun now and your video is here like it was made just for me today. Thanks so much for this and for Adam and his amazing info. I want ducks now for sure. Always love your content your wonderful Gaz keep it up and just like he said your garden wasn’t there before now all the slugs have told all the other slugs to come on over.
Adam yn yr ardd, the G.O.A.T 🙌
Great show, Gaz and Tom❤Thank you for introducing us to Adam and all the slug management tips. Loved the words of welsh, too.
Btw the big slug you've got in your hand in the thumbnail is a Leopard slug and it won't eat your plants in fact you'll want as many of them in your garden since they only eat rotting vegetation, fungi and other slugs.
Loved EVERY second of this video. Taking note as a beginner gardener
❤️❤️
Loved this one!
Thanks for introducing us to Adam.
Our pleasure!
If you have alot of slugs or snails get a few ducks. Let them rome your garden every so often. Let nature do the work. If you have a insect problem find a insect that eats it and introduce it to your garden. Takes a few years but i noticed when i did it. The first few years i kept. Adding them to my garden but i new they wouldn't stay. So i kept adding them till i noticed them being there without me doing anything. Took 3 years and my bug problem was managed and didn't get out of control.
Great tips!! And what a relaxing ending with the nature sounds. Thanks Gaz & Adam :)
Rawr slugs! They’ve eaten my yuzu trees but I planted garlic around it and it’s helped so much haha
that was brilliant Gaz
If you have access to scrap electrical wire, making a little copper wire ring around plants is a great free way to protect them (but very localised)
What a beautiful man and his ducks!
Soooo sweet right
This is so helpful! Thank you 🙂
This video was 100% helpful I have so many slugs!
a little sand sprinkled around seedlings works too I found out after my 4th planting this year!
Great video! I really enjoyed seeing Adam’s property and loved all his valuable tips😊
Beautiful garden and great tips!
Loved this! ❤
I’ve used coffee grounds around my lettuces, after finding the slugs had eaten a few. Seems to have helped. My problem this year has been aphids, particularly black ones, they have destroyed my beans and peas ugh!
What beautiful humans
Ducks are my favorite solution to slugs!!🦆🐌🦆🐌🦆🐌🦆🐌🦆
Copper tape, diatomaceous earth can both fight slugs. Also, planting carrot seeds too deep prevents germination. Some seeds need sunlight-not full sunlight, but some sunlight that can reach them beneath the ground, and planting them too deep doesn’t let enough get to them.
Oh what a wonderful place ❤
Oh, Adam is so charming. Great video full of helpful tips! I don't usually struggle with slug pressure, but our unusually mild winter (for us here in Wisconsin) and wet spring drew them out in droves!
loved to meet this man and his garden ❤❤
Living legend!
Eyyyy brother. Was great meeting you at Vegan Campout, even if it was brief. Hope to run into you another time where we can deep dive on Orgonite, copper spirals and geometric shapes. 😂👌 Respect, dude.
What brilliant tips! I'm going to try and do some of the tips!
I’m a hairdresser and I use all the hair cuttings but this year there has been way more slugs so I have taken to feeding them with veg cuttings away from veg patch seems to be working so far.
This is fantastic information and I am going to pass this on to my friends DIOLCH 🏴👏👏
Oooo I love this!!! I’ve tried cayenne but never wool 🐑
Id love to see ducks on gaz garden ❤
This was so helpful! I miss the Welsh countryside- My homeland
This is fantastic information! I'm in New Zealand and spring is like a plant massacre where I live. I've always thought of creating a transportable slug and snail haven to move over to a chicken coop daily ... requires chickens though 😅
I love his retaining wall, I wonder how he built it, or if it was already there.
wow he's so cool!! awesome!
this is made for me lol, theyre literally eating everything!! couple never even got to grow lol and also, my strawberries are under attack every day, its like a slug army, im not kidding im trying to remove them at night and theres like 30+ slugs in our LITTLE patch of like 9 plants... (babys and adults)
its the worst slug year fr..
Loved Adams garden and great information 👏💓✨️
So nice of you
Ordered that beautiful knife ❤❤❤ great video for home growers
Thanks Craig!
This is so helpful. Thanks for the amazing tips.
You're so welcome!
Wow what a guy Adam is! I will go look for his channel & subscribe now 😀
Love Adam!
Such a lovely garden and thank you for sharing all those tips for slugs.. now is like some tips on rabbits!!!
From a different channel. Keep away from cats and dogs. Similar to beer trap. 1 cup of flour, 1 packet of yeast. Keep dry in a container. When needed put some (maybe a big spoon full) in a beer-like trap, mix in some water to get a runny consistency. Put in garden and catch some snails.
This is such a good video Gaz, excellent info. Sucks when you have such a good video like this and it doesn’t get the clicks like your other videos do (they are all good but I hope you know what I mean!).
Brilliant!!
Where is the link to the knife? It looks so awesome!
Such a funny chap. Great vid, Gaz. And i don't even have a garden... 😁
I love your polytunnel.
Can you please tell what it is made from.
I'm looking at a few different versions of building them.
Truly good stuff thank you. ❤
Very helpful tips! Thank you for sharing
You are so welcome!
epic video! thanks guys!
What a lovely video 😊
You are so kind ❤️
Does he have any ideas for squash bugs, aphids, cucumber beetles, and squash vine borers? I would really love some tips for those they nearly destroyed my garden this year and I rather not kill them! 😢💙💙💙
Gwych 🤗 Diolch Adam, tips ardderchog fel arfer 🏴 awesome Adam, fantastic tips as usual ⭐️ garden goals right there 💜
Adam is great! , Gaz become one with the slugs 🤣
Brilliant thank you
You're very welcome
Great information.
Ive had garden now since 2019 ...this year the first time ive had extreme pest problems ...with my beautiful cucumber trellis 😢
Gaz, don’t your neighbors have sheep that we’ve seen in your previous videos? They were so cute, but maybe they can give you some wool for your garden. There was really good info in this video and the ducks were so cute. As for they cayenne pepper and garlic, I’ve heard of that one before as well and I’ve also seen people use salt for the slugs and they say that works as well. I enjoyed some of your guest Adam’s many remedies, he is very knowledgeable. 😊
Cool blades
Slow worms are better at slug control than ducks. They live 20 years plus and feed almost exclusively on slugs. All you need is a few corrugated sheets laid in sunny spots on top of grass. You just have to get over the fact they look a bit like snakes Gaz, but remember they are actually legless lizards. And they are super cute. Porridge oats are also a good organic slug control. Keep them under a slate to keep them dry. The slugs will shelter under the slate, consume the oats and die fat and happy. The oats swell inside the slugs. If any other predator eats the slugs they won't be affected by the oats. As I always say, if you wouldn't eat the poison you put down, then don't put it down.
Wow! I feel like I've struck gold hearing about the porridge oats.
Do you have any recommendations for rollie pollies?
@@susanthomas7566 I think what you call Rollie pollies and what I call Rollie pollies are maybe two different things. For me it's rolling down a grassy hill lengthways. No oats or slugs included. 🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂 🙃
slugs are a real menace this year
Fab video