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Thank you for your advice on slugs and snails. I just found your video today after going out to the garden and seeing two heads of lettuce devoured 😭and I only planted four. Looks like I have some work to do! Thanks again!
we have a magpie with one wing developed and one wing not so he can’t fly, but he’s healthy and believe it or not, my lawn is littered in empty snail shells and I’ve not had a single problem all year with snails and slugs 😁 magpie is happy and healthy so it’s not cruel if anybody says, we keep him fed always
I love how you are going through your own garden telling us not to leave fodder and bags and plant flats about. Then showing the example of how exactly not what to do when obviously you yourself are currently doing it. So glad you didn't say how easy it is. Thank you. You are a peach! Honesty above all else.
You can use an old board or several sheets of old newspaper. Put it on the ground, control next morning, they will hide over night under and you can collect them easily next day, that diminishes the amount for a great deal.
Just added ducks into my backyard partly because of this, partly because i adore them. Hoping for a homestead in the future. Thanks for your lovely videos! x
Nice! I wish I have more property to have ducks. I love their eggs! My garden is a city lot in the back yard, and I don't think our neighbors would appreciate the noise.
Hello Liz, great ideas as always, thanks. I try to let nature take its course in general and encourage wildlife to eat up as many pests. I planted potatoes in a pot a few weeks ago and as soon as they’d been earthed up a few times and doing well, the snail army attacked. I had to go out most nights to remove them. Eventually I tried lemon balm (it grows like a weed in my garden). I spread it all around the potatoes and left it to dry there. The snails have disappeared. Might be luck but 😀
Very helpful video, thank you! I never knew the difference between the silvery trails of the slug vs. the snail. I’ll be paying more attention, now that I know!)
I've increased biology too and my slugs aren't as bad. My new plantings always get a ring of oyster shell around the base. I cloche seedlings with pop bottles. I go out on warm rainy evenings with my soapy slug bucket and collect them. I mulch, I chop and drop, I use wood chips. I figure if my plants have everything they need with a mineralized soil they can put up their own defenses too. I'm determined to live with them best I can.
Great video Liz. I tend to try and find the balance in nature, or go on a slug hunt and move them to another area of the garden. I once saw a slime trail across a cactus I'd put out for the Summer and several nibbles!!!! Since then I'm convinced they're not detered by rough or spiky surfaces like grit etc. Thank you Vik
Brilliant information thank you. My poor seedlings under mesh in my mini greenhouse still get eaten every night. But tonight I’m going on night watch with torch and provisions And I will not water at night now thanks for that. I have one cauliflower still growing eaten to bits but still growing. I would love a pond my garden is tiny but I do have a washing up bowl. Can’t kill anything I get sad if i do by accident
I don’t use poisons and copper tape simply doesn’t work so I keep on top of slug and snail issues by going out at night with a torch and picking them off whatever’s being eaten. Slugs are creatures of habit and they return each night to eat whatever they were eating during the previous night. However, different slugs have different habits so those that eat the bird poo off the patio / process rotting plant matter etc. are left to keep up their important beneficial work and those that eat my veg are relocated to a nearby field. By selectively expelling the slugs that eat my crops, while leaving all others to carry on with their important good work, I find that I have enough slugs to keep my garden’s ecosystem fully functional but very few slugs with habits that cause any concern.
i tried putting a pile of veg peelings on top of the soil in my veg plot. every morning there were loads of slugs. I'd then remove them and put them in a bucket of water. Slug pubs also work well
Thanks Liz, that was very interesting. I had no idea that slugs lived so deep down in the soil! I am also trying to get more of a balance in my garden and have a pond in its second year which I hope will attract slugs and toads. When we had a glut of slugs during a very cool and wet June this year, I would collect as many as I could find and feed them to the chickens in the neighbouring plot... They loved them.
I couldn’t afford copper rings to go round my seedlings and was despairing when the slugs ate most of them. Just been trying something new. I cut the top and bottom from lemonade bottles, then cut them into tubes about 15cm high. I used the Poundland copper tape to create a ring a round the tube - wish I knew how to add a photo. I put one of these tubes round each seedling and it seems to work 👍 I could have used nematodes but decided if I did kill all the slugs then the birds wouldn’t have anything to eat, so I’m going to stick with my copper tape tubes.
Hey there - I have been spreading orange peels around the garden, especially around new brasicca, the slugs and snails gravitate towards them, and are easily found of an evening, not that I go searching too much anynmore.
I used to have a huge slug problem in my town garden. I tried killing them in various ways I found recommended online. I hated doing it. "Sprinkle salt on them" was the worst - I only did that once - it was horrendous - never again. It's so cruel. Since then, I put in a pond, adopted a few free ranging ex-battery hens and I got rid of the lawn. I rarely see a slug now. Just have to fence the hens out of the veg plot 😃
Really helpful video, especially good advice to grow seedlings up before planting out. My direct sown plants have been eaten away sadly ☹ Will have to try your other tips 👍
Slugs are one of my worst fears so taken up gardening is quite challenging for me, I let out an odd noise whenever I come across on. I’ve been needing to watch one of these tip videos for a few weeks as the slugs ate all my lettuces, why can’t they just stick to one side and leave me some? Anyway I was putting off watching as I knew slugs would be shown 😂🤦🏻♀️
Great video. Im going to make a tray with a wide ring of copper around it and collect them at night and put them in the middle of the tray so hopefully they wont escape and the birds etc can have them in the morning. I have a avery small garden and they love my dahlias, I cant afford to let them free rayne or my plants would be gone. No other barriers at moment. Will see how it goes
Here in the Northwest of the U.S. slug-tossing is great fun and excellent aerobic excercise :-) p.s. put out bowls of beer-little buggers are lushes and drown.
Great video. I have a terrible slug problem. Took the sides off one bed to relocate and it was covered in slugs. I had netted my brassicas , but this stopped the hedgehog getting in and eating them. But like the ducks he too can uproot plats when he’s digging for slugs
We have lots of snails here; I live in the far northwest (Washington State) corner of the US; I don't think we have hedgehogs here. I've only seen them in pet stores. We do however have a lot of bunnies, squirrels, crows and Steller jays.
my dad used slops from his home brew placed in marjine bowls,neva had a prob wif slugs,in thailand i put papaya leaves on the ground at nite in the morn u turn them over and the slugs and snails stik to them,i then feed them to the chuks.
My small garden is completely encased in screening. Even on top, due to so many deer. Therefore birds and other snail/slug eating creatures can't get in. I use beer in low lids or caps. The slugs climb in and drown. Cheap beer works well.
Morning when you said six feet I just dropped my jaw. I never knew that at all holy cow 🐮 that’s insane. Well for no dig they are lucky 😂😂😂 more traps it is ☮️🇨🇦🥬🙏🌶🍆
This was so informative..as you say, slugs can be a nuisance but I prefer to let nature take its course and leave them to the birds and hedgehogs..we also have a pond with lots of frogs and rescue hens that like the occasional snail. Thank you for sharing.
Surely if you put slugs in your compost heap they could lay eggs and then you'd spread them on the garden? or does the heat from the compost heap kill the eggs?
5:19 = me. Planted out my tiny beets because they didn’t seem to me growing in my seed trays. That was last night. This morning , 6 of the 9 tiny seedlings heads had been lopped off by something overnight. 🤨
Thanks Liz.......I’ve tried everything you mentioned, last resort was Nematodes last week. Waited 6 days before planting some greens out. Planted 20 plants 11 survived within 2 days 😩 I couldn’t bring myself to look today....dreading going into my veg garden. Planted 20 broccoli out a few weeks ago.....ZERO left same with cauliflowers....3 left😡 Losing the will now 😢 but thank you anyway 👍
me too. Everyone said 'plant a fall garden, its a whole easier experience, much less pest pressure!' So I did... and the slugs/snails ate most of it up. Iv got 1 broccoli, 4 very small chewed up cabbages, maybe 5 out of 20 kale left, 2 bok choy, and about half the kohlrabi I put out. Probably wont bother next year.
Ophiuchus Oversoul it’s soul destroying isn’t it 😢 Thankfully, my kale hasn’t been touched! Which is my main crop, because I grow it for my giant tortoise. But every other brassica , including about 40 turnips have been devoured 😩 I’m hoping it’s because, it’s a new veg plot, which I’ve created in an overgrown ‘paddock’ so it might not be as bad next year 🙏🏼🤞🙄 Don’t give up! We can be slug buddies‼️😂
Many gardeners leave bags etc lying around on purpose as a slug trap. Lift them in the morning and remove the slugs/snails. I have been using Grazers G2 for slug & snails this year - nothing else. (No affiliation LOL) Not perfect but 90% efficient with the added benefit of not killing the slugs - food for frogs/toads/hedgehogs etc and it provides calcium via the leaves :)
Ducks love to dig or root in wet soil. The wetter the better as far as they are concerned. They will eat some fruits and veg if they are allowed, in that respect, they aren't welcomed by most gardeners. I like your exclusion method. It is very sensible and it helps to not only feed your quackers, but they also enjoy a bit of fun as well. :
@vmcougarintn5035 I've kept Indian runners for years to manage slugs and snails. I put lettuce in raised, netted beds as they love it, but they don't eat anything else 😊
Leopard slugs are helpful though. They don't eat living plants but do eat decaying plants, and other slugs. In Australia we also have native snails which kill the introduced snail
Boy did I ever have a slug and snail crop this year. Of course, I totally did it to myself by doing exactly what you said not to do. I had the bright idea to much with straw. Bad idea. Good thing chickens like slug eggs (or snails, who knows?) I wonder if wood chips would be more inhospitable?
I put them in a paint tin with soap suds and water and I pick them up with bbq prongs and I get about 200 a night and the wildlife that like to eat them can eat the ones I miss
Share all your slug/snail concerns - but just have to get on with them as best I can. I often transport them to the compost heaps even though I know they can escape! Thanks for the videos, really enjoy them.
Hiya! How are you? It's been such a busy year that I've had almost no time to watch other videos, I'll be glad when this harvesting period is over and I can come by and visit other channels again :-)
A large proportion of my potato crop was slugged this year. Dispiriting. I will think about a wildlife pond and perhaps some ducks, thank you, really like your films :)
What type of ducks do you have. I’ve just bought a small holding and will have 1/4 acre of veg garden. And I’d like some ducks to do slug & snail patrol and perhaps provide the odd egg
Or the bucket in which you collect the slugs could contain heavily salted water. No way will they go in my freezer, that sounds like a young nephew who once put his fishing maggots in the fridge. I chuck them into the field but I saw an experiment once that showed they have homing instincts.
@@LizZorab Your garden is bigger than mine, i have only small place, but i no idea where they come from, but horrible what they can destroy in one night. I usually give them wings to next green aera but they always come back 🤣 I also find lot of layed eggs in my potato soil. :/ Next year will be epic 🤣
We don’t often see a slug or a snail in our part of Australia. We used to see more but as the climate gets warmer & drier they seemed to have decreased.
Yep we had a drought for 5 months a couple of years ago. We were inundated with huge slugs but that nearly completely wiped them out... which left the birds hungry and hedgehog which we then fed. They’re increasing again now unfortunately.
Why chasing them? 🤔 Have a little beer 🍺 in a plastic bottle, placed horisontally... Maybe some stick or stone, near the opening, for snails to crawl in..no problem if it rains, since it will not dilute beer..Works 💯%!!! 👌There are videos on yt where people done beer traps of coffe mugs. 😳 * If you prefer 🍺for your self 😜, try yeast (for baking - I have not tested that one). Mix a little bit with water & pour in a bottle. They are drawn to yeast that is in beer as well, so it might work... 🤔 Cheers 🍻 & good luck 🙏👍
Hi Liz, thank you for your information about the slugs, very helpful. could i ask, what variety of tobacco is that in your garden, near the pallets ? hope to hear back from you soon. thanks again, Peter
@@LizZorab Thank you very much Liz, I did notice the white flowers, as all the tobacco i have know, and picked, has had pink flowers.Would you happen to know where, and if any is available, the HICKS variety of tobacco ?
I really don’t like to kill them, they all have a part to play in the garden. I collect them up in my slug bucket then release them over the golf course.
Why chasing them in the middle of the night? 🤔 Have a little beer 🍺 in a plastic bottle, placed horisontally... Maybe some stick or stone, near the opening, for snails to crawl in..no problem if it rains, since it will not dilute beer..Works 💯%!!! 👌😳 * If you prefer 🍺for your self 😜, try yeast (for baking - I have not tested that one). Mix a little bit with water & pour in a bottle. They are drawn to yeast that is in beer aswell, so it might work... 🤔 Cheers 🍻 & good luck 🙏👍
Glad I found video, I have HUGE PROBLEM with SLUGS!!! You can just never get ride of this thing! :-( I just start out my youtube channel, check it out..you can see the size of my garden. I tried so many ways but doesn't work..My seedlings get munch by them at nights and if i don't fight bac..the seedling will be gone in few days!
Cloche seedlings with pop bottles and scatter oyster shell. Could be that your new garden had the balance off. Once you get all the no dig permaculture principles in place and it matures, you'll have less issue.
Do you have a video on, or could you talk about tomato blights? I lost almost all of mine this year, and I desperately want to learn how to keep it from happening next year. Late blight hitched a ride in from a nursery I got a couple of starts from.
I would like to know what is the beautiful red fruit Where you are sitting I do now have a lot of slugs In my garden Because I use bambooChips and lime And my garden
Which part of the world are you in? I'd love to be sowing courgettes again now, but our cold weather is just around the corner so they wouldn't survive.
Do you mean the tall one that I walk under? It's basis is a cheap polytunnel frame, the blue tubing is where I extended it. This video shows briefly how I started making it, the full details were on videos made for supporters on Patreon. ua-cam.com/video/hPzX7Ngk9kg/v-deo.html
@@LizZorab Thanks Liz. I have loads of blue water pipe. Hubby works for the water board. If I was earning a wage I would happily become a patron. Money's a bit tight though. New boiler this coming Friday £2500 ouch ouch ouch
I give them compost I don’t want to eat ..food scraps ,etc. So they eat compost instead of what. I grow .I collect them and relocate them so they continue to Clean up the environment!!!
Around 1:35 you mention "...there's fewer snails in the garden then slugs..." Allow me to rephrase that "in moist environment, like UK or Norway, there are fewer snails...than slugs. As an example in the drier areas of Portugal, Spain, Morocco, France, etc. its precisely the opposite! As a Portuguese I say, thankfully. Because we eat snails (delicious)! But no one likes to get close to a slug. LOL 😂 Even tough there are snail farms and many people dedicate to pick snails out in the fields! Like in some other places people go out to pick mushrooms or berries. With this said, snail consumption is such, that Portugal has to import snails! Mostly from Morocco, but from other markets also. That's how much demand we're talking about! As a curiosity, there's an yearly (Summer) snail "Festival" where all kinds of snail delicatessen can be found! A couple of fun facts to animate (shock) the comment section! LOL 😂 Cheers
I remove slugs from my compost bins & cocout shell traps & toss them in the pond for fish/frog disposal. The compost produced & then put onto the garden is likely to contain tiny slugs so my routine is to eliminate at source as many as possible & leave the worms & pillbugs to break down the compost. I really don't ascribe to the notion that slugs are useful in compost because they are tourists & I don't think they stay there. On average a UK garden is home to over 20,000 slugs and it is estimated that an acre of farmland can support over 250,000 slugs. However, only around 5% of the slug population is above ground at any one time, with the other 95% spending their time underground, laying eggs and feeding on roots and seedlings. (Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust)
I don't know, but it's best if you keep plants, soil, fallen leaves and containers away from the house. If they have fewer places to live and hide, the less likely they are to access your home.
These slugs are coming into my kitchen from under the house ( as far as I can tell.). I just don’t have the $$ to pay a professional so as of now I keep slug go at the point of origin until I can figure out something different ...... thank you for answering my question .
I envy you the mild UK climate where you can grow green stuff all through summer, but I don't envy you the slugs. Here the enemy is stinkbugs, they are awful, sucking the juice out of everything, especially tomatoes. Slugs are a rarity though, I am happy to say.
from my understanding slugs/snails dont EAT the wood chips, they hide under them during the heat of the day when they might otherwise dry out. The wood chips help hold moisture into the ground, so they squeeze up under them after the dew dries.
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Thank you for your advice on slugs and snails. I just found your video today after going out to the garden and seeing two heads of lettuce devoured 😭and I only planted four. Looks like I have some work to do!
Thanks again!
I think if I find anymore slugs, i will put them in a tray or bucket of water and feed them to the birds.
What about sprinkling salt on the slugs in the early evening.
we have a magpie with one wing developed and one wing not so he can’t fly, but he’s healthy and believe it or not, my lawn is littered in empty snail shells and I’ve not had a single problem all year with snails and slugs 😁 magpie is happy and healthy so it’s not cruel if anybody says, we keep him fed always
I love how you are going through your own garden telling us not to leave fodder and bags and plant flats about. Then showing the example of how exactly not what to do when obviously you yourself are currently doing it. So glad you didn't say how easy it is. Thank you. You are a peach! Honesty above all else.
Life is too short to pretend I'm anything other than imperfect!
I loved that part too. My garden is so much smaller than hers and still I leave many happy places for snails and slugs. I have some changing to do.
Great tips Liz, slugs are public enemy No1 to us but management is key
You can use an old board or several sheets of old newspaper. Put it on the ground, control next morning, they will hide over night under and you can collect them easily next day, that diminishes the amount for a great deal.
I wonder if old dried out cedar boards would also work ? I have allot of them.
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good idea.
@@dewaynemoore314 It's worth a try.
Just added ducks into my backyard partly because of this, partly because i adore them. Hoping for a homestead in the future. Thanks for your lovely videos! x
Nice! I wish I have more property to have ducks. I love their eggs! My garden is a city lot in the back yard, and I don't think our neighbors would appreciate the noise.
Hello Liz, great ideas as always, thanks. I try to let nature take its course in general and encourage wildlife to eat up as many pests. I planted potatoes in a pot a few weeks ago and as soon as they’d been earthed up a few times and doing well, the snail army attacked. I had to go out most nights to remove them. Eventually I tried lemon balm (it grows like a weed in my garden). I spread it all around the potatoes and left it to dry there. The snails have disappeared. Might be luck but 😀
Great idea! I have always wanted to grow lemon balm, now I have a good reason. Thanks!
Very helpful video, thank you!
I never knew the difference between the silvery trails of the slug vs. the snail. I’ll be paying more attention, now that I know!)
I've increased biology too and my slugs aren't as bad. My new plantings always get a ring of oyster shell around the base. I cloche seedlings with pop bottles.
I go out on warm rainy evenings with my soapy slug bucket and collect them. I mulch, I chop and drop, I use wood chips. I figure if my plants have everything they need with a mineralized soil they can put up their own defenses too. I'm determined to live with them best I can.
Great video Liz. I tend to try and find the balance in nature, or go on a slug hunt and move them to another area of the garden. I once saw a slime trail across a cactus I'd put out for the Summer and several nibbles!!!! Since then I'm convinced they're not detered by rough or spiky surfaces like grit etc. Thank you Vik
Brilliant information thank you. My poor seedlings under mesh in my mini greenhouse still get eaten every night. But tonight I’m going on night watch with torch and provisions And I will not water at night now thanks for that. I have one cauliflower still growing eaten to bits but still growing. I would love a pond my garden is tiny but I do have a washing up bowl. Can’t kill anything I get sad if i do by accident
I don’t use poisons and copper tape simply doesn’t work so I keep on top of slug and snail issues by going out at night with a torch and picking them off whatever’s being eaten.
Slugs are creatures of habit and they return each night to eat whatever they were eating during the previous night. However, different slugs have different habits so those that eat the bird poo off the patio / process rotting plant matter etc. are left to keep up their important beneficial work and those that eat my veg are relocated to a nearby field.
By selectively expelling the slugs that eat my crops, while leaving all others to carry on with their important good work, I find that I have enough slugs to keep my garden’s ecosystem fully functional but very few slugs with habits that cause any concern.
Great information, Liz! And great to see the ducks. They always make me smile!
Thank you for mentioning the natural slug killers! I have had a hedgehog in my garden for years, and as a result I never kill slugs. :D
i tried putting a pile of veg peelings on top of the soil in my veg plot. every morning there were loads of slugs. I'd then remove them and put them in a bucket of water. Slug pubs also work well
Thanks Liz, that was very interesting. I had no idea that slugs lived so deep down in the soil! I am also trying to get more of a balance in my garden and have a pond in its second year which I hope will attract slugs and toads. When we had a glut of slugs during a very cool and wet June this year, I would collect as many as I could find and feed them to the chickens in the neighbouring plot... They loved them.
That's our Liz, always slugging along turning out great content! Thanks liz!
I couldn’t afford copper rings to go round my seedlings and was despairing when the slugs ate most of them. Just been trying something new. I cut the top and bottom from lemonade bottles, then cut them into tubes about 15cm high. I used the Poundland copper tape to create a ring a round the tube - wish I knew how to add a photo. I put one of these tubes round each seedling and it seems to work 👍
I could have used nematodes but decided if I did kill all the slugs then the birds wouldn’t have anything to eat, so I’m going to stick with my copper tape tubes.
Copper rings? Can't you just spool up some scrap copper wire?
Thanks Liz, i learned a few things there. I've been using moats made of sand for years, they work well.
Hey there - I have been spreading orange peels around the garden, especially around new brasicca, the slugs and snails gravitate towards them, and are easily found of an evening, not that I go searching too much anynmore.
I used to have a huge slug problem in my town garden. I tried killing them in various ways I found recommended online. I hated doing it. "Sprinkle salt on them" was the worst - I only did that once - it was horrendous - never again. It's so cruel. Since then, I put in a pond, adopted a few free ranging ex-battery hens and I got rid of the lawn. I rarely see a slug now. Just have to fence the hens out of the veg plot 😃
Really helpful video, especially good advice to grow seedlings up before planting out. My direct sown plants have been eaten away sadly ☹ Will have to try your other tips 👍
That was a big slug on your hand! Great video Liz! .... I cooked a broccoli once with a slug in , put me off the whole meal!
A little extra protein... on second thoughts - eeww! Yes there are some whoppers of slugs here.
Would put me off cooked mushrooms too forever
Slugs are one of my worst fears so taken up gardening is quite challenging for me, I let out an odd noise whenever I come across on. I’ve been needing to watch one of these tip videos for a few weeks as the slugs ate all my lettuces, why can’t they just stick to one side and leave me some? Anyway I was putting off watching as I knew slugs would be shown 😂🤦🏻♀️
Great video. Im going to make a tray with a wide ring of copper around it and collect them at night and put them in the middle of the tray so hopefully they wont escape and the birds etc can have them in the morning. I have a avery small garden and they love my dahlias, I cant afford to let them free rayne or my plants would be gone. No other barriers at moment. Will see how it goes
I've not heard great things about copper tape, but it's worth giving it a go! Good luck!
nice video havent seen many slugs this year
Good on you liz zorab with them nematodes. I feel the same
Here in the Northwest of the U.S. slug-tossing is great fun and excellent aerobic excercise :-)
p.s. put out bowls of beer-little buggers are lushes and drown.
Your raspberries look impressive.
Fortunately don't have to worry about these pests over here. Your garden is looking fabulous Liz. xx
where is over here?
@@saschathinius7082 australia
Great video. I have a terrible slug problem. Took the sides off one bed to relocate and it was covered in slugs. I had netted my brassicas , but this stopped the hedgehog getting in and eating them. But like the ducks he too can uproot plats when he’s digging for slugs
We have lots of snails here; I live in the far northwest (Washington State) corner of the US; I don't think we have hedgehogs here. I've only seen them in pet stores. We do however have a lot of bunnies, squirrels, crows and Steller jays.
my dad used slops from his home brew placed in marjine bowls,neva had a prob wif slugs,in thailand i put papaya leaves on the ground at nite in the morn u turn them over and the slugs and snails stik to them,i then feed them to the chuks.
Lol when this first started with the advert I thought it was how to cook slugs .
Also slug hawkwind cover song I've got a silver trail
I really like watching your videos. Thank you.
Glad you like them! 🌻
I never realised slugs could hide up to 6 feet underground!
Nor me. It's amazing.
90 to 95% of slugs are below ground.
My small garden is completely encased in screening. Even on top, due to so many deer. Therefore birds and other snail/slug
eating creatures can't get in. I use beer in low lids or caps. The slugs climb in and drown. Cheap beer works well.
Morning when you said six feet I just dropped my jaw. I never knew that at all holy cow 🐮 that’s insane. Well for no dig they are lucky 😂😂😂 more traps it is ☮️🇨🇦🥬🙏🌶🍆
Hi Ali, yes my jaw dropped a bit too when I first read that - made me realise how efficient they are at staying alive!
This was so informative..as you say, slugs can be a nuisance but I prefer to let nature take its course and leave them to the birds and hedgehogs..we also have a pond with lots of frogs and rescue hens that like the occasional snail. Thank you for sharing.
Surely if you put slugs in your compost heap they could lay eggs and then you'd spread them on the garden? or does the heat from the compost heap kill the eggs?
Loved the video as always. Great work 😍
5:19 = me. Planted out my tiny beets because they didn’t seem to me growing in my seed trays. That was last night. This morning , 6 of the 9 tiny seedlings heads had been lopped off by something overnight. 🤨
Oh no! Sorry to read that, it might be worth direct sowing some more seeds into the ground.
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm I will pop some seeds in the ground today. Thank you ☺️
Thank you for all this information!!
Great video. Watching from Australia. Great info. Cheers.
Thanks Liz.......I’ve tried everything you mentioned, last resort was Nematodes last week. Waited 6 days before planting some greens out. Planted 20 plants 11 survived within 2 days 😩 I couldn’t bring myself to look today....dreading going into my veg garden.
Planted 20 broccoli out a few weeks ago.....ZERO left same with cauliflowers....3 left😡
Losing the will now 😢 but thank you anyway 👍
me too. Everyone said 'plant a fall garden, its a whole easier experience, much less pest pressure!' So I did... and the slugs/snails ate most of it up. Iv got 1 broccoli, 4 very small chewed up cabbages, maybe 5 out of 20 kale left, 2 bok choy, and about half the kohlrabi I put out. Probably wont bother next year.
Ophiuchus Oversoul it’s soul destroying isn’t it 😢
Thankfully, my kale hasn’t been touched! Which is my main crop, because I grow it for my giant tortoise. But every other brassica , including about 40 turnips have been devoured 😩
I’m hoping it’s because, it’s a new veg plot, which I’ve created in an overgrown ‘paddock’ so it might not be as bad next year 🙏🏼🤞🙄
Don’t give up! We can be slug buddies‼️😂
Many gardeners leave bags etc lying around on purpose as a slug trap. Lift them in the morning and remove the slugs/snails.
I have been using Grazers G2 for slug & snails this year - nothing else. (No affiliation LOL) Not perfect but 90% efficient with the added benefit of not killing the slugs - food for frogs/toads/hedgehogs etc and it provides calcium via the leaves :)
Ducks love to dig or root in wet soil. The wetter the better as far as they are concerned. They will eat some fruits and veg if they are allowed, in that respect, they aren't welcomed by most gardeners. I like your exclusion method. It is very sensible and it helps to not only feed your quackers, but they also enjoy a bit of fun as well. :
@vmcougarintn5035 I've kept Indian runners for years to manage slugs and snails. I put lettuce in raised, netted beds as they love it, but they don't eat anything else 😊
Leopard slugs are helpful though. They don't eat living plants but do eat decaying plants, and other slugs. In Australia we also have native snails which kill the introduced snail
Boy did I ever have a slug and snail crop this year. Of course, I totally did it to myself by doing exactly what you said not to do. I had the bright idea to much with straw. Bad idea. Good thing chickens like slug eggs (or snails, who knows?) I wonder if wood chips would be more inhospitable?
Charles Dowding is using wood chips for decades... i'll buy some in autumn...
Lava rock might be something to try.
I've already heard about relocating the slugs to the compost heap, but won't I just bring them back to my garden beds together with the compost?
I'm adding two ponds this year. I expect to see many more toads, in the garden, next year.
I put them in a paint tin with soap suds and water and I pick them up with bbq prongs and I get about 200 a night and the wildlife that like to eat them can eat the ones I miss
So interesting Liz - my
Number 1 problem 🥴
I use soapy water after soaking garden socks 😉👍
Share all your slug/snail concerns - but just have to get on with them as best I can. I often transport them to the compost heaps even though I know they can escape! Thanks for the videos, really enjoy them.
So much for cut & drop mulching ?
Great video looking forward to the book😀
Love your borage.
Great video Liz 👍
Thank you Erica!
Thanks - I'll keep using egg shells & coffee grounds.
Coffee grounds does not work for me. I would like to try Epson salt
I use oyster shell. It's pokey and they don't like it.
This upload was immensely informative Liz... Thanks so much for the sharing of this Sage advice...
ATB
GURU M
Hiya! How are you? It's been such a busy year that I've had almost no time to watch other videos, I'll be glad when this harvesting period is over and I can come by and visit other channels again :-)
A large proportion of my potato crop was slugged this year. Dispiriting. I will think about a wildlife pond and perhaps some ducks, thank you, really like your films :)
The snails climb up into my mulberry tree..Its so high up!
I've heard a dusting of crushed eggshells works, any thoughts?
What type of ducks do you have. I’ve just bought a small holding and will have 1/4 acre of veg garden. And I’d like some ducks to do slug & snail patrol and perhaps provide the odd egg
We have Aylesbury ducks, but any kind of duck will eat lots of slugs. 😃
Or the bucket in which you collect the slugs could contain heavily salted water. No way will they go in my freezer, that sounds like a young nephew who once put his fishing maggots in the fridge. I chuck them into the field but I saw an experiment once that showed they have homing instincts.
Woow, im can't wait your book.
Aw, thank you so much for your kind words :-) My garden is rarely tidy, so you can imagine the battle I have with them!
@@LizZorab Your garden is bigger than mine, i have only small place, but i no idea where they come from, but horrible what they can destroy in one night. I usually give them wings to next green aera but they always come back 🤣 I also find lot of layed eggs in my potato soil. :/ Next year will be epic 🤣
We don’t often see a slug or a snail in our part of Australia. We used to see more but as the climate gets warmer & drier they seemed to have decreased.
Yep we had a drought for 5 months a couple of years ago. We were inundated with huge slugs but that nearly completely wiped them out... which left the birds hungry and hedgehog which we then fed. They’re increasing again now unfortunately.
Why chasing them? 🤔 Have a little beer 🍺 in a plastic bottle, placed horisontally... Maybe some stick or stone, near the opening, for snails to crawl in..no problem if it rains, since it will not dilute beer..Works 💯%!!! 👌There are videos on yt where people done beer traps of coffe mugs. 😳
* If you prefer 🍺for your self 😜, try yeast (for baking - I have not tested that one). Mix a little bit with water & pour in a bottle. They are drawn to yeast that is in beer as well, so it might work... 🤔 Cheers 🍻 & good luck 🙏👍
Excellent Liz!
Thanks Aine - I'm about to organise a live chat for the weekend, I'll put up a post with details soon.
Copper tape doesn't work tried it.
I've been going out at night with a black light, tweezers and a bucket with salt lined at the bottom. Kills them instantly.
Another great video!Thanks!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for dropping by again 😃
I poured some coffee grind in front of a slug and it actually started munching on it.
Hi Liz, thank you for your information about the slugs, very helpful. could i ask, what variety of tobacco is that in your garden, near the pallets ? hope to hear back from you soon. thanks again, Peter
Hi Peter, the tall white ones are nicotiana sylvestris and the small lime green ones are Nicotiana alata 'Lime Green'.
@@LizZorab Thank you very much Liz, I did notice the white flowers, as all the tobacco i have know, and picked, has had pink flowers.Would you happen to know where, and if any is available, the HICKS variety of tobacco ?
I go old school and go out with a torch and a pair of old garden snips on dark night after it rains.
It's really effective (or possibly just satisfying) to do that!
I really don’t like to kill them, they all have a part to play in the garden. I collect them up in my slug bucket then release them over the golf course.
Why chasing them in the middle of the night? 🤔 Have a little beer 🍺 in a plastic bottle, placed horisontally... Maybe some stick or stone, near the opening, for snails to crawl in..no problem if it rains, since it will not dilute beer..Works 💯%!!! 👌😳
* If you prefer 🍺for your self 😜, try yeast (for baking - I have not tested that one). Mix a little bit with water & pour in a bottle. They are drawn to yeast that is in beer aswell, so it might work... 🤔 Cheers 🍻 & good luck 🙏👍
Thank you. Very informative
Glad I found video, I have HUGE PROBLEM with SLUGS!!! You can just never get ride of this thing! :-(
I just start out my youtube channel, check it out..you can see the size of my garden. I tried so many ways but doesn't work..My seedlings get munch by them at nights and if i don't fight bac..the seedling will be gone in few days!
Cloche seedlings with pop bottles and scatter oyster shell. Could be that your new garden had the balance off. Once you get all the no dig permaculture principles in place and it matures, you'll have less issue.
I have heard that black beetles are slug and snail predators and like to live in wood chip paths.
All the best everyone.
Very helpful video thanks for sharing.
Glad it was helpful, thank you for stopping by!
The snails in my garden just love to take their walks on my black laundry that is out to dry so that i must wash it again.
Handy tips, thanks Liz x
Tldr: Just tidy up as much as you can.
Do you have a video on, or could you talk about tomato blights? I lost almost all of mine this year, and I desperately want to learn how to keep it from happening next year. Late blight hitched a ride in from a nursery I got a couple of starts from.
the answer is, keep soil away from the leafes and keep the leafes as dry as possible... tomatoes hate wet leafes
I would like to know what is the beautiful red fruit Where you are sitting I do now have a lot of slugs In my garden Because I use bambooChips and lime And my garden
I think you are referring to the rose hips, which I collect to make syrup and wine.
Looking at the picture, I see red raspberry.
Thank you so much 🌻
I cried last week when slugs and snails ate all my new tiny courgettes plants😢😢😢😢
Which part of the world are you in? I'd love to be sowing courgettes again now, but our cold weather is just around the corner so they wouldn't survive.
i lost all my courgettes to slugs this year, good that my allotment neighbors had plenty full of it
Awww I love the ducks :)
I love that blue poly tube arch Liz. Was it tricky to make?
Do you mean the tall one that I walk under? It's basis is a cheap polytunnel frame, the blue tubing is where I extended it. This video shows briefly how I started making it, the full details were on videos made for supporters on Patreon. ua-cam.com/video/hPzX7Ngk9kg/v-deo.html
@@LizZorab Thanks Liz. I have loads of blue water pipe. Hubby works for the water board. If I was earning a wage I would happily become a patron. Money's a bit tight though. New boiler this coming Friday £2500 ouch ouch ouch
Great advice thanks!
I give them compost I don’t want to eat ..food scraps ,etc. So they eat compost instead of what. I grow .I collect them and relocate them so they continue to Clean up the environment!!!
Good advice
Thanks Caroline!
Around 1:35 you mention "...there's fewer snails in the garden then slugs..." Allow me to rephrase that "in moist environment, like UK or Norway, there are fewer snails...than slugs.
As an example in the drier areas of Portugal, Spain, Morocco, France, etc. its precisely the opposite!
As a Portuguese I say, thankfully. Because we eat snails (delicious)! But no one likes to get close to a slug. LOL 😂
Even tough there are snail farms and many people dedicate to pick snails out in the fields! Like in some other places people go out to pick mushrooms or berries.
With this said, snail consumption is such, that Portugal has to import snails! Mostly from Morocco, but from other markets also. That's how much demand we're talking about! As a curiosity, there's an yearly (Summer) snail "Festival" where all kinds of snail delicatessen can be found!
A couple of fun facts to animate (shock) the comment section! LOL 😂
Cheers
can you describe the taste and texture and what they are most like? A source of protein is a source of protein after all!
Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge. Appreciated muchly :)
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Thanks for watching Kate!
I remove slugs from my compost bins & cocout shell traps & toss them in the pond for fish/frog disposal. The compost produced & then put onto the garden is likely to contain tiny slugs so my routine is to eliminate at source as many as possible & leave the worms & pillbugs to break down the compost. I really don't ascribe to the notion that slugs are useful in compost because they are tourists & I don't think they stay there.
On average a UK garden is home to over 20,000 slugs and it is estimated that an acre of farmland can support over 250,000 slugs. However, only around 5% of the slug population is above ground at any one time, with the other 95% spending their time underground, laying eggs and feeding on roots and seedlings. (Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust)
How do you stop them from coming into your house !! Keeping sluggo (chemical killer )on the floors isn’t very pretty.
I don't know, but it's best if you keep plants, soil, fallen leaves and containers away from the house. If they have fewer places to live and hide, the less likely they are to access your home.
I live in the Pacific northwest otherwise known as Slugland. I've never got one in my house unless I brought it in on lettuce or something.
These slugs are coming into my kitchen from under the house ( as far as I can tell.). I just don’t have the $$ to pay a professional so as of now I keep slug go at the point of origin until I can figure out something different ...... thank you for answering my question .
I envy you the mild UK climate where you can grow green stuff all through summer, but I don't envy you the slugs. Here the enemy is stinkbugs, they are awful, sucking the juice out of everything, especially tomatoes. Slugs are a rarity though, I am happy to say.
I'm not sure which sounds worse - but slugs don't smell, so I think I'm grateful for that!
@@LizZorab Oh yes, they are vile, they smell and they FLY too, huge great droning, buzzing things. Imagine flying slugs though...
No, I just don't want to imagine them - therein lies the source of nightmares!
Isn't the decaying garden waste not also what your garden wants?
It's better to return the waste once it has decayed if possible. I do regularly put part composted matter onto the beds to finish the process.
from my understanding slugs/snails dont EAT the wood chips, they hide under them during the heat of the day when they might otherwise dry out. The wood chips help hold moisture into the ground, so they squeeze up under them after the dew dries.
They eat mold, mildew, mushrooms or anything rotten thats soft enough.! They climb onto my stone wall and scrape at the algae by the watertanks!
Always good to remind ourselves of what's good to do with these slimy little customers:)