Creating A Wildlife Pond On Our Allotment To Battle Slugs.
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- A wildlife pond really can bring a vast amount of extra wildlife into your growing space. from frogs, toads, newts and dragonfly's. Many love a juicy slug. With the wetter weather slugs and snails are decimating crops. Time to take the gloves off, I'm battling slugs with nature.
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Many thanks for sharing your pond construction.
I love it ❤
Great idea, looks like you did a good job.
Make sure you have a boarder around each bed that is kept dry & warm, perhaps woodchip or something similar. Slugs & snails love cold damp places and come out at night when it is colder, perhaps salt will stop them from crossing, otherwise inhumane beer traps. Or Nematode sprays . Good luck!
😊 As you can see from all my other vids I use woodchip paths between all my beds. ☺️. I'm surrounded by unkept allotments, and they come in from all directions. I use beer, too. Like I showed in a previous video. Salts not a great idea for the soil life. With it being such a bad year for slugs even the RHS is having a bad time with them this year. But I shall persevere 😊👍
We have huge ponds next door and behind us but I am still going to use beer traps and cinnamon around plants 🤞🤞. Oh lord it took me 3 years to get rid of creeping Jenny. Have a great week Helen, Ali 🌧️🌧️🌧️🇨🇦
Yup creeping jenny is a giant 💩 🤣. But I'll see how I can cope with containing it. Beer traps are working for us. But the constant downpours just keep diluting it 🤣. I mean who enjoys light beer 😂. Have a good one Ali 👍
@@oddsocksgrowing I make covers with margarine containers just cut bits into the side and put a rock on top
That's really pretty. I am sure they will love it!
Hope so 🥰
What a fabulous pond!
Thanks. Hopefully it will grow in well.
Hey there, was seeking reassurance was doing ok with my wildlife pond at allotment. Thanks. Yes, it has been a major point to have added this. The entire site. Is home to newts slowworms lizards, I even have glow in the dark centipedes,! And my lonely male frog finally has a mate in my pond. So I am sure there’s a battle between the newts and the frogs, toads but at least I have given them a fair battle field :-) may creative force of new life begin!
That sounds a wonderful area 😍. Your very lucky. Keep doing what you are doing ❤️
It looks great & didn't cost too much xx
Nope. Didn't want to spend alot at all. Defeats the allotment spirt. ☺️
Looks amazing! 🤩
Thank you 😊. Hopefully it works
Will introduce insects, but slugs may creep into your greenhouse underground as they only come out at night.
They get in there easily enough already 😂. It's just a bad year for them
SLUGS!!!! 🐌
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So many sparrows!!! Ask them to help
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They are already helping by eating the lettuces.... 😩
Don't think I would have put a damp area (Pond) so close to where I'm growing. Predators for slugs will find them anyway , maybe?
Slugs and snails will happen and does happen with a pond or no pond there. Its a good area to have, its leveller than the rest of the plot. 👍