Worlds Greatest Organic Slug Control Solution - Effective Also For Aphids and Cabbage Worms And More
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- Опубліковано 24 чер 2024
- Here's how to use it: When noticing slug damage make this solution and apply at night time directly to the plants and the slugs. Apply 5 nights in a row and do not skip a night. Then wait and see if there is still a problem. It is very likely you will not have to use this solution ever again all season long after the initial 5 nights of application you slug problem will be gone!!!
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Thank you for sharing this! I made some straight away and used it on all the bad slugs eating my crops. They literally dissolved! Feel a bit mean but it's them or my food. Love your awesome videos. Cheers 😀
dont worry, there are still plenty of slugs around.
Well did I make it wrong? Should I add double the sodium hydroxide? I just made it and I saw a slug so I sprayed it and it is not dissolving. It seems bothered but still alive a few minutes later and not dissolved
@@towithNic for me they can take a little while to dissolve. when they crawl away they leave a white goo behind...different from the regular slug slim
It looks like the damage caused by the larva of those damned white butterfly's to me. They keep me from being able to ever have any kale crop.
Thanks for your feedback. Here in Australia we are going out of Spring into Sunmmer and the little grey pests are just starting to get bust eating my seedlings.
Any time I am cooking w/garlic, I always cut/chop/whatever, then let it sit for 5 min. before adding it to any food. Yes, that time sitting cut in the air is what produces the allicin. Just in case anyone was wondering, if you're taking garlic supplements for high blood pressure or infections, DO NOT take the "deodorized" garlic caps. They have the allicin removed and will not do you any good.
I can always count on you for useful commentary my friend thank you!!
@@gardenlikeaviking 🤗😜🥰 It's so easy when your topics and knowledge align with mine! I want people to know, too!
Thanks for this info...
@@allthingsn1ce You are so very welcome!
@@gardenlikeaviking ♥ ThanQ for allowing me a voice! ♥
Just 5 mins ago I told my daughter I have to look up something about slug pressure. Next thing I know I press the home screen and this video is being recommended. I’ve never looked up videos about slugs specifically. Google be listening. 😁
Absolutely! Exactly how I got here! Now if Google and his girl Alexa can hook up with their buds over at Amazon and automatically order everything I need, I will gladly pay the bill. Ok…re-reading this tickled me…lol. Hope someone else gets a giggle from my broken humor. 🤭🤭🤭
@@keshiah-stayblessed 🤣🤣
I have noticed that numerous times, too! It is freaky.
I only thought it.... Very matrix-y
They listen to everyone all the time. Big brother and not in a nice way. Good video by the way
My mother was an amazing gardener. She use to swear by regular application of fresh sawdust to keep the slugs away. Apparently slugs and snails can’t travel over the stuff because it’s very dry and absorbs their slime. Fine sawdust will also attach to their soles, further gumming up their works.
Too wet and windy where i live for fine sawdust
I’m trying salty pistachio husks. When the salts killed off on lot the husks will hinder others.
@@ProYadaEggshells crushed up?
How about sand, the large grains?
I am going to try the sawdust, thank you for sharing this information. Regards from Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤
In the 50's there was a garlic processing plant near us. In those days they would dump their waste at an open pit. Grandma would pick up buckets of scrap and take it home. She would add water and use a plunger to mush everything around and use the liquid for insecticide.
Smart Grandma.
@@stilllearning1160oh yeah...my slugs love to devour my garlic plants..and onions...and even potatoes...sorry that was supposed to reply to the original poster.
@@lindajam8202are you sure it was slugs? I have rollie pollies eating my onions and earwigs
Hello Nate an old farmer told me years ago that large amounts of slugs usually mean that there aren't enough ground beetles around that feed on them. So I went online to a site that sells insects and spoke to them about it. I can't remember their name but there's many like them. They sold me a box of beetles that are native to my area Long Island New York and I set them loose in my garden. The first year there was no difference the second year there was less and by the third year there was very minimal slug damage.
this is wonderful advice my friend thank you for sharing!!
I live in Western Washington slugs and snails are a huge problem. I will have to look into something like this. Thank you for sharing this.
IDK, but it seems like that sodium hydroxide would work, even without garlic. BUT, I certainly don’t know and definitely need something for mainly snails, not really many slugs. I’m in central Texas and I never see earth worms…I mean, I’ve gone years without seeing one and then, only one. But snails? Always an army of those little demons, everywhere I look!
@@freewaybaby There are actually predatory snails that are strictly carnivores and won't eat your plants at all. They only eat snails and slugs but they're native to western states and it's illegal to ship them or bring them anywhere else because they endanger native species. I tried having some sent to New York and the site that sells them would not do it.
@@joepeduzzi8834 Ok, I’m clueless, I guess, but why would you want predatory snails? The ones here in Texas will eat ALL your garden if you’re not watching.
i’m a lazy gardener and the absolute best, sure fire, lazy slug killer is my number one method, stale beer; they go nuts over it, i save deep yogurt containers, open beer and leave in fridge for a few days pour beer in yogurt container, leave in garden at night, come morning i’ve got dozens of drowned slugs. worked for me, in oregon coast garden, all the time.
Yes it works well but snails, no ,I believe they are teetotal .
Me too. Safe to use and so easy but gross after awhile.
Any plant grown in a zinc galvanised metal container or raised bed made from old fashioned wrinkly tin roofing, will be completely slug and snail-free. Slugs will not cross this barrier guaranteed. I re-purpose old galvanised metal trash cans, janitors buckets, water storage tanks, etc into 100% slug-free planters for my peas, beans and spinach.
Not 100% but it is a lot better inside. I took a pic of a huge slug crossing my zinc galvanized slug fence yesterday. But compared to the plants outside the fence, it's a slug free paradise inside the fence.
Not true - ask me how I know 🤣
I wish this worked for me. Slugs have been horrible in mine
I have a zinc raised bed and there's a minimal slug attack on those plants compared to the other plants in bags and pots, they're having a free meal on those plants.... I have tried the garlic substance also and it reduced the slug attacks but it rains quite often in the UK, that means u have to continue reapplying the substance every evening which can be tiring.
Note to self- Follow this man’s instructions. I am one of those that over does things, a little is good, more is better. Never again. As I wrecked some small pepper plants by using garlic paste around the root base.
I feel certain animosity towards slugs:)
And disgust!
Cut beer cans open, drink half and leave half for the slugs. Do this as often as your liver will allow. Best slug bait ever.
The slugs here don't like beer. Wasted a bunch testing that out..
@@lindajam8202 dont use bud light. lol
Hey I like this idea better than the others 😂😂😂😂👍
@@BobRooney290true, then the slugs might identify as rabbits, and they will move much quicker at decimating your plants. 😂
Works for me.
I find using Chinese cabbage makes a great trap crop for slugs, flea beetles, and such. I put them in pots and move them around the garden to strategic locations. 😁
What do you mean? You buy Chinese cabbage from store and put it out into garden as a bait trap?
@@destinycoach5 No, I just grow it in places where I want to trap flea beetles.
@@booswalia that makes more sense. Yes but that cabbage is gonna take time to grow.... i need something for the plants to START!! So growing cabbage doesn't seem like a solution. Not for may and June anyway. Tks
@@destinycoach5 Yes, you have to start it ahead of everything else. Luckily it's very frost hardy and grows very quickly.
Smart...
Waiting for this one for weeks, thanks so much, Nate. You're a great teacher, loving your channel. My garden looks great with your JMS ans JLF. All the best from Mallorca, Spain, Zone 9a
I so much appreciate your videos and the clarity/simplicity you share it with. Specially the dialed down size recipes. Thank you friend and stay blessed✨
Wow! You look so much better without a beard and a haircut! And younger too!👍☺️
After many years of having a plague of snails and slugs, suddenly one day I noticed that they were all missing. That was about three years ago, and they are still absent. Not even one. Praise the Lord!
This happened to me, but I happened to spot the possum who was visiting my yard at night.
What did you do?
Slugs started in my garden last year and they are back this year. Soo irritating! They're eating my cabbage plants..
@@slyjacinto2012 try copper tape, if your cabbages are in raised beds. Also look up the wire and battery snail / slug zapper method. You don't need to use copper wire, any wire will do.
Cooper is good but nourish your soil, once your veg receives what it needs you won’t have any invaders in your garden
Some natural predator showed up.
Excellent! Thank you. Organic gardening plus Electroculture is amaaaaaazing! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
You’re an inspiration…thanks for posting your knowledge…
Thank you for sharing. We appreciate the knowledge. Your videos have helped bring this knowledge and make it all understandable. Love the live shows as well. I have had to change the ways i do stuff and this is the path for me. Thank you!
thank you for the positive energy my friend!!
Thank you Nate, this is verry usefull for protecting my plants against potato beatle larvae.
My bro and i have made the castile soap and jadam sulphur we have been using it in our garden and have had really good luck with it. We are down in houston. We ended up picking up the jadam books really great stuff in there.
Thanks so much! I followed your directions and just sprayed my potato patch which was being skeletonized and as I walked around for another spritz the slugs that were on there literally were melting off so thanks!
Thank you! The slugs are taking my spouts! Thought it was bad seeds too, nope. Going to try this solution on my flower beds too, aphids are having way too much fun over there
Informative! Just as always! Thanks😊
Thanks for your vaiuable tip.
So helpful thank you Nate
I didn’t think I had a slug issue until now. I have that type of damage but never see any critters. Evidently, I’m not looking close enough. Thanks Nate!
yep its so stealthy only happening in the darkness of night!!
Could be earwigs at night too
Wonderful, thank you.
Very interesting. I find nematodes extremely effective (albeit expensive). Greetings from Scotland.
Perfect timing and super useful information! Just noticed some holes in cuke leaves. Will scope out the culprits tonight then deploy the secret sauce! Many thanks to the Garden Viking🙏🏼🙏🏼
you are welcome my friend!... also I hope you heard my responses to your questions last Saturday!!
Trying to grow Chinese long beans and little tiny bugs are eating the leaves of the seedlings. We also have slugs as well, I’ve seen some big ones in the past. I’ll try this solution. Thanks!
Slugs are ubiquitous in my area, the PNW. One year, they destroyed everything in my garden. White cabbage flies are my current bane. Will have to try your solution!
2024 is the year of the slug here in my Michigan garden. I'm grateful to have this recipe before the end May. So many of my perennial flower leaves have been snack food for these little slimy slugs and so good to know they decimate the other snacking invaders,. Thank you for your service!
Thank you for sharing your secret solution, Viking! I’m making this today. I did sluggo last year and it killed my pill bugs who were helping break down compost. I don’t have the JADAM wetting agent yet. Was gonna use the Dr’s soap. But will check the wetting solution video out now. I love your channel!!
Thanks Nate for the recipe. To protect the peas and beans, I use an aluminum mesh screen. I cut the roll in half and make a mini tunnel over the seeds. Not easy to install but very effective for the first two weeks!!!
First time seeing your content. Looking forward to using this on my greens and sweet potatoes which have slugs and aphids. Thank you!
Looking good. Spring cleaning
thank you Nate! Wealth of info as usual!
Thanks for all the great videos and posts! You’ve been a tremendous help on our farm. We use Ruth Stout method and so slugs are a huge prob.
Whatever you do with your voice you will be alright mate. Very impressive tone!! 🎉 Thank you for creating great content
Nate get out of my backyard!😝 how else could you know I just happened across my slug problem this very morning and told myself I needed to look up a solution!? You my friend are in tune with the universe and I’m ever so grateful😊..keep it up brother
Smart phone is reading your mind.
Mine too😊
Great video, Nate!
Great stuff! In Buddhism we are taught Garlic is toxic for healthy people but medicine for sick people. Copper wire around seedling stems works really well to keep ground slugs/snails off. They never cross it. You can also layer some oyster shell flour, neem and mustard seed powder around plant but not too close to the stem as it can burn seedlings.
Buddhism is clearly wrong on that. A million healthy Italians can testify to the benefits of garlic.
@@markm8188 Italians are not yogis, are not buddhist, are not "masters of the body and mind". Even great doctors like Dr Sebi and Professor Arnold Ehret labelled Garlic as poison and lethal to the gut flora and the mind. Those Italians have yet to reach true health and vitality of a Yogi or Buddhist and are just food/drug addicts controlled by material substance thus weak in mind and perceptions. Garlic is a stimulant and has drug-effects on the body but most people today rely on coffee, garlic, sugar, salt which all act as 'drugs' but we have become so used to them we do not notice the long-term negatives. Buddhist spend weeks and months fasting and meditating in caves which allows them to deeply observe things far deeper and more intricate than the over-stimulated and addicted to food Italian man who's mind is running 100 miles an hour and has no chance to observe such things and thinks its just called normal.
Or a million sick Italians are healthy because of garlic
He did say it was medicine for sick people..
@@emordnilap6567 Right. But if healthy people took more garlic, there would be fewer that are sick.
Copper is brilliant! Also that tape which has a rough surface...like sand paper. For aphids and white fly I use netting ..I dont like killing stuff either 😊
Thanks, something just ate all my okra plants! Gonna try this!
I use beer traps, which were covered in another video here, as well as iron phosphate pellets, which are actually beneficial to plants. Put the pellets under stepping-stones or walk boards in the garden (where slugs love to hang out) and they will last a very long time.
yes my friend but when I witnessed the giant earth worms eating the iron pellets I just couldn't do it anymore!!!...the earthworms are also killed by them and I mean the huge ones that come out at night on the surface to eat and mate
Wool around plants and over your rows does a pretty good job of repelling slugs, it also holds in moisture and breaks down providing fertilizer. I am a shepherd and end up with bags of trash wool every year.
So if we are not Shepherds do we use knitting wool? How would you cover the plants?
@@destinycoach5 look for a shepherd in the near of you and ask him for some wool. Every early summer they shape their sheep.
@@betula-pendula I do know one. I've asked him for things b4 and he always seems to use everything. But I'll ask.
So do you just put a handful of of wool down were a plant should come up? I've already lost 3 rows of peas and a row of beets lettuce and spinach.
I don't know where the plants will come out.
Tks for the advice.
@@destinycoach5 till now I used the raw wool only around planted plants, not around seeds. So I can't tell you if it works with seeds.
I use it just to keep the earth from drying (it really works even in the last dry and hot summers) and give some nutritions for the ground over time.
@@destinycoach5 I use a litte more than a hand full. I use so much that there's a ring about nearly 10 centimeters around the plant and thick about 3 or 4 centimeters.
Yes! Thank you!
Thank you my friend
This is my first year having such bad slugs, going to make this right away
Great information and knowledge! We are having the WETTEST summer in Southern Vermont, Zone 4B! They are eating my lilies! THANKS!
I ve started using slug nematodes , its a biological control, very effective, and part of the natural life cycle of slugs and soil nematodes. I feel better doing it this way rather than just routinely killing off the slugs myself.
Can’t wait to try
Thank you my Viking gardening friend
I found you when you visited Pinball. This is my second year of gardening and have been yawing your methods and I am very please. Thank you for your channel.
welcome to the channel my friend!!
@@gardenlikeaviking Thank you. I look forward learning from you.
Thanks so much bro this is great
Coffee grounds work great, and less hassle.
How do you use it, please?
Genius!!
Thank you!!
Thank you a lot. Snails are a nightmare. Thrilled to try it out.
Ugh. I hate Slugs! Never experienced their destruction until I moved to SC. They are terrible here. Thank you for this helpful video! ❤
Perfect video and no drama this time 😅
lol you remember!!!
Thank you, now I have a recipe and hope)
Nice video! Will try the solution 😎💯💣
In the northeast / mid-Altantic US, my method of slug control is to build loose stack rock piles / walls where Garter, Milk snakes, and Eastern Brown snakes can den. They LOVE to eat slugs. If you have an established den, you'll probably never see a slug.
good tip, rich. in costa rica, i spend time at a farm where the ducks lived in the garden. unlike chickens, they dont scratch up your roots, but they ate lots of bugs and fertilized as they went. ...and left eggs often!
@@williamsharp2532 😨😱
I wish we had snakes like that in the U.K. But we don’t really have snakes at all
@@user-ed7et3pb4owhy would you want them?!
I live in central New York and also build rock piles for the snakes and toads :) So far I cannot say that I have noticed an effect on slugs (it is only my second growing season here), but I love seeing all my snake friends when I garden and feel that they help with rodent control.
good show, cheers Nate
Here's the Video on How To Make The WETTING AGENT ua-cam.com/video/yQeWHMelHVA/v-deo.html
Thanks Nate. I’m a soap maker and using your measurements for the spray will be very simple Blessings to you
Great channel ,I subscribed . Ciao from italy !
This is great! My house is in the Redwoods and it's banana slug central anywhere with shade (which is basically most of the property). I've tried beer bowls but emptying bowls full of beer and dead slugs is truly repulsive- and there are always more slugs, especially the babies, which don't make it to the bowls. Thank you, thank you, Thank You for this tip!
oh yes I remember the jurassic banana slugs!!!... you may want to mix it stronger for them because they are so massive!!... do you notice them eating your produce?
@@gardenlikeaviking No, I wish I did! I only notice the produce having been already eaten.
Thank you!
I have watched so many videos of your and not a single one disappointed me!!!!! I have seen videos of so called "organic farmers" who suggested Sluggo Plus, which doesn't disclose 99% of the ingredients. Thank you for providing a safe alternative.
thank you for the positive energy my friend!
Sluggo is only iron phosphate then Sluggo made a more expensive upgrade. Now still only iron phosphate. What a gimmick
Can’t wait to make this solution to see how it works! I trust everything you discuss because I know you have lots of expert degree proven success. 1. Do I spray only on the effected plants or all plants? 2. Should I spray the soil or would that hurt the earthworms? Thanks a million!!
First time to see your channel. Glad to find ya. We can all use collaboration in gardening!!
Been growing for our own greens peppers and tomatoes for only 4 years. Second year the best thing I did was to grow FLOWERS. Needed the bees
for the pollination. Anyways, subbed!
Look forward to checking out your channel! Thank you for your effort!
Oh how good the Lord is, I have had no time to look at UA-cam videos but decided to turn on my computer and your video was at the top. Just yesterday I said " Wow, my peas should be up by now and they aren't. What bad seeds. You just told me what is happening and Yes, I do have lots of slugs.
THANK YOU & GOD BLESS!
That's a great recipe! but THE best slug control is actually ducks. LOL. We keep ducks in our garden space over the winter into spring. Even let them in when the veggies are big to do more bug patrol--they are really efficient bug and slug eaters.
I would let the ducks into the garden but then the horses would get in too and eat the crop.
No beard! You look much younger! I like it 💯!
Greeting from Poland Nate!
this soution saved my straberries, we have this season plenty of slags - I mean in our region.
We would only watch them eating all strawberries at night if we won't have this fantastic solution !
So thank you again for your honest, professional tutorials !
All the best !
Agnes
Ps
I am actually making your next concotion . . . Worlds Strongest Natural Fungicide as soon as I get the ingrediens.
Will leave a comments how it works afterwords, because we have in Poland expecially on tomatoes very invasive potato blight - I really hope it will work.
Razor sharp teeth 😖 really…..I’m sure I’ve got issues like this as I had so many lacey looking leaves and hole punched leaves, and root veggies that like like they have worm trails on the outside . I’m so happy I found your channel before my garden goes in this year.
Suffered from slug issues with my capsicum crop this wet spring. Ruined the lot. Thanks for the heads up
Thanks for sharing keeping my sprouts safe from them critters
Thanks!
Awesome!
Thanks shared
Diotomeceous Earth works well. I have slugs eating my young red hot pokers. A liberal sprinling around the plants and no more slime trails; plants are recovering nicely.
DE is really good for most insects, too, so all-purpose! Hadn't realized it worked for slugs, too, but thinking about it, it makes sense that the microscopic sharp pieces would be uncomfortable for them, too.
Doesn't work, tried that around one of our Hostas. The only thing I've found is to make a moat and keep it full of salty water.
@@haraldtheyounger5504 wow, sorry to hear. It worked for the young pokers; it's useless in rain and heavy dew. Those must be some beautiful Hostas! What are you using to make the moat, if I can ask?
@@WollongongSkyWatch Just cement. Dug out the border around where the Hosta was going, then I placed an old inflatable ring, built the cement around that. Deflated the ring before the cement was too dry. Then a coat of paint afterward, waterproof of course.
The Hosta used to get complete decimated and just looked terrible. Now, not a nibble out of any leaf.
It's amazing how many slugs and snails there are. Last night picked up another 14 after dark. Which with the others are going to the woods this weekend.
I actually remember a story about a scientist who painted the shells of some snails to see if they'd return from where she dumped them. I'm sure it was something like 12 miles away. Within a week, they returned to her garden!
@@haraldtheyounger5504 such a cool idea! I've always wanted to do the painted snail shell experiment myself. One very early morning a few yrs ago, I got the shock of my life when I walked out to see a small army of snails all headed back to the safety of cover in the Galangal ginger before the sun came up. I was horrified by how many there were. I now use copper tape on all my raised vege beds. They don't like copper.
this helps for sure. on the other hand, since you have been experimenting and all and have in fact tweaked your JADAM practice, try doing soil tests with Logan Labs (or other places that do the Albrecht system of soil mineral balancing) and put down the amendments recommended - calcium carbonate, rock phosphate etc. believe you me you will elevate your garden to another level and benefit your followers soooo much...blessings
"They (slugs) scoot around on a cushion of slime" 😂😂😂 You're brilliant!!!
Thank you for this "brew" - speaking of which, beer on a plate works well - cheap beer seems fine, the slugs ssem to gorge on the beer.
sweet info
Wow. Thanks!
Just found ur channel. Glad to see u spreading JADAM. I learned about from Chris Trump channel. The gardening world needs to learn more about it!
I'm sorry to hear that slugs ate your beard. Hope the solution helps!
I love the new look!
HA!
Just what I needed!! Thank you.
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Nice!!
Thanks Nate. What is your recommendation to deal with tomato russet mite?
No slugs here but before it was fun with a salt shaker watching them explode. Easily amused.
I put tomato hornworms in the freezer. The really big ones that is. The smaller ones get the smash o matic rock.
Gonna make this tonight or tomorrow, THANK YOU NATE!!! The nerve of those slimers attacking some sweet peas… 🤬
You had me at viking. ;) Subbed
I put a nice thick ring of powdered lime in a circle around my rows of beans when planting. Works really well. Have to redo if it rains but let’s the plants germinate and get past that tender stage.
I use sand it works great and doesn’t affect the PH
I haven't seen the big leopard slugs where I live in Ontario Canada, but for the last 2 summers the little slugs destroyed so much of my lettuce plants. I would literally go out every night after dark and pick them off one by one. This year I put the lettuce in a plastic half barrel. My 16 yr old grand daughter suggested I try doing what I did to save all my trees from the gypsy moth caterpillars. I wrapped them all with clear boxing tape, sticky side out and they would either not cross it or get stuck on it. It worked for that scenario! So I wrapped the tape around the base of the barrel up to about half way and then under the top of the barrel. I haven't had any slugs so far eating my lettuce. We'll see if it stands the test of time. So far, so good.
Thanks again Nate, slugs are like cobras here in damp Ireland its ridiculous, I'm currently putting in an electroculture grid in my postage stamp garden, from what I understand this should repel slugs and attract more bees and birds, I'm joining it up to an 8 metre antenna which should earth about 800 volts, I will keep you posted my friend interesting times.
yes my friend definitely keep me posted on that and also send me some pictures as you get them... 8 meters antenna seems a bit over the top doesn't it?... lol jk thats the best way to do things!!
@@gardenlikeaviking I believe "8 meters" refers to the length of the RF sine wave for that size antenna, since that is how ham radio folks talk about antennas. I could be wrong, in which case yes, a 24-foot antenna does seem like overkill. But I've done crazier things for my garden, lol.
@@jeffmeyers3837 From the earth up every 1 metre is a 100 volts, it fluctuates but that's a good bar, so you earth from the ether 800 volts into the ground, it discharges the atmosphere around your antenna, birds sit in trees to earth as they're statically charged from being in the air so long, it's also why trees look like one of your antennas.
@graemedevine9651 - I'm in western Canada, and I haven't tried this, but I've been told of setting a shallow pan or pans in your garden area and filling them with beer, yes beer,. I don't think they're fussy on brands but slugs love it. They crawl in drink it up and that's the end of them!
@@lb6110 They certainly do but it doesn't get rid of them, it definitely doesn't make the situation worse, here in Ireland they appear in their droves at night, I've used beer traps and they did catch some but they still had their fun, electroculture seems to be the answer, little bit of work to set up if you make a good job of it that's it for at least 10 years, it attracts more birds and bees etc too, worth it in my opinion that's if it works lol.
I've tried various methods. So far I've had the most success with sand. Simply sprinkle about 20 cm of sand around the plant and it'll be fine!
20cm deep?
@@krh7150 No, I only spread the sand superficially, 1-2 cm at most.
Thanks for this video I shall be making some of this solution...do you have any tips and solutions for vine weevil as I've been pestered by these beasts for years as well as the slug damage.