The war on slugs starts at home
There are 29 species of slug in Britain, but just four give the rest a bad name: the common garden slug, a leathery gunmetal grey and the length of your little finger; the fat, sickly grey field slug; the black slug, the biggest (and sometimes rust coloured) and keeled slugs, which have a ridge along their backs and a taste for potatoes.
When they encounter few trails — as in our gardens following the dry spring – the slugs take it as a signal that there is virgin territory to be plundered. Where the matrix of slime is dense, however, it’s a warning to disperse and lay eggs where there is less competition for food and less risk of being attacked by predators. Slugs are prey to not just frogs, hedgehogs and birds but microscopic bacteria and nematodes that live in soils.
It’s these nematodes (microscopic eelworms) that gardeners have been buying as a form of biological control since the early Nineties. They really work on those slugs that you don’t tend to see, but which do a lot of damage to underground shoots and potatoes. In a garden, micro-predators live in symbiosis with their slug hosts and only significantly dent the population when slug numbers become disproportionately high.
The mail-order sachets of nematodes infected with deadly mollusc-killing bacteria temporarily raise the proportion of nematodes and brings down the slug population. I’ve been an advocate for years.
However, there is also an allotment-owner’s trick for making your own slug-killing nematode potion, using nothing more than a bucket, some weeds, tap water and the slugs from your own garden. If you are already used to killing slugs by drowning them in a bucket, you’ll find this method right up your street.
How to make your own slug killer
In any average garden some slugs will be carrying bacterial diseases or be infected by nematodes, but their low density means that they won’t devastate the rest of the population.
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Super video! Many ideas I've never heard before! Amazing!I live in the city slugs! Surrounded by 40 acres, wild grass, tons of rain, billions of slugs who love food people more than they love the grass. My contribution to the slug fest world is to put out little piles of left over people dinners, peelings, compost, even eggs & cat food onto strips of newspaper. Cover it all up with . anything flat, like garbage bags, cardboard, newspaper. At night gather up paper & slugs toss into compost bin.
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