Ack! Yet again those slippery slugs have managed to get at our beans! Here’s a list of six things you can do to combat slugs:
- wait till dark and go hunting with a torch
- run copper tape round the base of plants – no point nailing them to wooden boards as they can travel through the soil
- put porridge down around vulnerable plants – slug love it and it dries them out
- beer in jam jars (just make them higher than the surrounding ground, slugs get in, but beetles don’t fall in) suckers them in to drown drunk
- slug pellets – least liked, but best to put them under logs etc
- nematodes – small worm like creatures that squirm up slugs back passages and eat them from the inside out. Take that slugs!
Pictures from left: First pic – of bean growing through the side of paper pot, 2nd pic slug destroyed bean plants, 3rd pic fresh asparagus! mmm tasty… 4th pic latest view of the smelly fertiliser decomposing!
