420newbieg
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yah its not in a pot this time its in the ground so ill just try the copper I guess ill put a piece around the base
Pesky damn slugs and snails there bad this year folks what are some tips to get rid
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Alienwidow
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Slug death. Its the walmart brand and if you pour a circle around your veggies youll see dead slugs everywhere. They touch it and die.
Nutes and Nugs
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Rise before the sun is up.
Collect those little fuckers as it gets light.
Stir fry with your favorite veggies.
Collect those little fuckers as it gets light.
Stir fry with your favorite veggies.
Krspies
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ok so I have had an all out war with slugs in my garden over the years and here's what I've learned. fuck the beer, it doesn't really work and you spend way too much time picking dead drunk slugs out of the beer if you are lucky enough to catch any. If you do use beer it needs to be something like budweiser or heinekin because of the high sugar content. I can tell you from experience slugs don't like tecate or cheap beer.
Crushed sea shells work nice because the sharp points poke their underbelly which they don't like so they crawl away.
While cinnamon does nasty things to ants - slugs aren't phased by it.
slugs can "hibernate" in the dirt for up to 5 years and become "active" when they get warm from the sun so you can treat the top of your garden all day long and it won't do you any good because those little boogers just keep right on coming through the dirt, even the ones you think are dead or are just shells can actually be an inactive slug. slug can travel up to 5 miles in a day and take out an entire field of plants.
you really want to keep slugs away here's what you do.
Get a can full of copper pennies. needs to be the old style copper pennies because new pennies don't have enough copper content. Get some copper tape at the gardening store and get some copper tubing at the plumbing store, get some copper mesh if you can afford it and if you can find it there's even copper powder.
A good 6 inches or so away from the stalk of the plant (far enough out as to not harm the root system) dig a trench about a foot deep or so all the way around the circumference of the plant and sprinkle copper powder in it. Fill the trench back up with dirt to cover the copper. Do not mix the soil with the copper, just cover it. This is to detract any of those assfaces that are starting to warm up become active. Then take the copper pennies and spread them out in a circle over the top of the trench away from the plants so that they create a barrier. wrap the bottom of your stalk in copper mesh. At the base of your plant wrap a piece of copper tubing around it in a small band. Then put the crushed sea shells around the plant between the copper pennies and copper wrapped stalk.
If your plant is in a pot wrap copper tape around planter. Once will do the job but wrap the whole thing if your OCD or just anal.
I guarantee you will never see another slug eating your plant. copper puts off a charge that slugs don't like. they avoid copper like the plague. make sure you put the copper powder far enough away from your plant that it doesn't alter your ph but still makes an effective barrier. Job done, call it a day.
Crushed sea shells work nice because the sharp points poke their underbelly which they don't like so they crawl away.
While cinnamon does nasty things to ants - slugs aren't phased by it.
slugs can "hibernate" in the dirt for up to 5 years and become "active" when they get warm from the sun so you can treat the top of your garden all day long and it won't do you any good because those little boogers just keep right on coming through the dirt, even the ones you think are dead or are just shells can actually be an inactive slug. slug can travel up to 5 miles in a day and take out an entire field of plants.
you really want to keep slugs away here's what you do.
Get a can full of copper pennies. needs to be the old style copper pennies because new pennies don't have enough copper content. Get some copper tape at the gardening store and get some copper tubing at the plumbing store, get some copper mesh if you can afford it and if you can find it there's even copper powder.
A good 6 inches or so away from the stalk of the plant (far enough out as to not harm the root system) dig a trench about a foot deep or so all the way around the circumference of the plant and sprinkle copper powder in it. Fill the trench back up with dirt to cover the copper. Do not mix the soil with the copper, just cover it. This is to detract any of those assfaces that are starting to warm up become active. Then take the copper pennies and spread them out in a circle over the top of the trench away from the plants so that they create a barrier. wrap the bottom of your stalk in copper mesh. At the base of your plant wrap a piece of copper tubing around it in a small band. Then put the crushed sea shells around the plant between the copper pennies and copper wrapped stalk.
If your plant is in a pot wrap copper tape around planter. Once will do the job but wrap the whole thing if your OCD or just anal.
I guarantee you will never see another slug eating your plant. copper puts off a charge that slugs don't like. they avoid copper like the plague. make sure you put the copper powder far enough away from your plant that it doesn't alter your ph but still makes an effective barrier. Job done, call it a day.
420newbieg
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what i have found is that one year i used a piece of solid copper wire like the kind on telephone poles and made a circle around the plant bucket i also used some screen around the sides of the bucket slugs cant get passed it however you want it atleast 3 inches wide the screen they cant climb over it