Slugs -- you'll find them in every garden at some point or another. The trick is to not let your garden be overrun by them. The following guidelines offer natural ways to control slug populations, without insecticides.
November 18, 2015
Slugs -- you'll find them in every garden at some point or another. The trick is to not let your garden be overrun by them. The following guidelines offer natural ways to control slug populations, without insecticides.
Beth Smerek, a bedding plant specialist at a Boulder, Colorado, nursery, advises that most insects are beneficial or neutral to your plants, and when beneficial insects (such as those that eat pests) are killed, a dependency on chemicals is created.
Before killing everything that moves the minute you notice some holes in the leaves, bring an affected leaf or picture of the problem to a reputable garden centre and find out what is wrong. Then you can choose the treatment that will attack that problem specifically.
It's safer to use chemical treatments on indoor plants, because the indoor environment is completely artificial and contained, and thus the chemicals won't affect creatures other than the target pests.
You can buy expensive and toxic slug repellents, but natural methods are cheaper and just as effective. Slugs, it turns out, have a fatal vice: they like beer too much.
If you're not squeamish, you can deal with slugs you spot in the garden by hand.
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