Slugs vs. Ash.
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- If you don't have full 19:50 minutes to watch this life or death situation, you can watch at 2x playback speed, but I personally find it fascinating how the poor guys kept fighting for food straight from the compost pile.
#slugs #snails #gardening
Who had patience to watch the whole experiment? Boast here!
Lol then the rain comes and we run out of dry ash lol but ok for dry weather which is what again? Rain, rain and more rain.. lol
Slugs will die if you put salt on them. They are quite vulnerable creatures. Leave them alone. Unless they are being pests in your garden. They love to eat lettuce. Their snail cousins love to eat roses too. But they will also eat soft new seedlings and shoots. So will Woodlice. But if they stay away from your garden, or if you give them a nice cool, moist alternative home with plenty of food, they are actually nice a sweet tempered creatures. Slimy, but sweet.
I agree. That's why I'm trying to show people other ways than killing slugs and snails. Those that kill them in horrible ways (suggested on gardening facebook groups) may want to try surrounding seedlings/plants with ash instead.
@@GARDENING_foraging I will usually just move them to a location I do not really care about that has plenty of shade and rotting leaves and plants for them to possibly eat. But other things can also be used to repel rather than kill critters in the garden. Garlic, for instance, repels many insects and makes a great companion plant for roses, or so I hear…
I move them to my compost pile, or just leave them alone. Green kitchen scraps in a circle around the most vulnerable plants work for me, slugs eat the scraps and aren't hungry for the plants any more. But I'm testing other ways because when I suggest the scraps to people asking about slugs eating their plants, in gardening groups, many people are afraid the scraps will bring rodents into the garden.
@@GARDENING_foraging not if it is something the rodents do not like. Mint for instance is pretty pungent. But do be careful with mint as it is invasive if it takes root. Only allow mint to grow in pots or another controlled confined area. This also goes for asparagus ferns. You can NOT eat asparagus ferns. But these ferns are very invasive. They take over any area you plant them in and love warmer climates outside.
Yes, I have a video on how aggressive mint can be. One of the two kinds of mint I have is so aggressive it grows through bricks and under driveway...
And have a video on mint repelling rodents too :)