Anyone know a good way to keep slugs off your plants? I am getting tired of picking them off and they are starting to get bad.
Thanks,
Dex
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Anyone know a good way to keep slugs off your plants? I am getting tired of picking them off and they are starting to get bad.
Thanks,
Dex
Break down and buy some slug bait, I use stuff made by " king" and it contains a chem called Metaldehyde wich attracts the slugs and pretty much kills them on the spot, this stuff in no way affects your soil, BUT ITS toxic it will kill animals so you have to keep the stuff covered and watchs for peoples pets, it would be a bitch if some one found out you killed their cat protecting your weed plants from slugs, i have 30 cats and not one ever got into the stuff , There is a non toxic version of the stuff, made by a diff company, but its crap and its not as afeective, so i hope i could help you, trust me its worth killing any slug that comes near yer plants.
Thanks mate, i was useing some insect stuff but it wasn't working. I'm going to get some sawdust(was told they have a hard time crawling over it) and look into that stuff you are talking about.
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Originally Posted by dextrious
thats sounds good too cause the sawdust idea,poke em full of tiny holes
mean ol sluggs
tell you what ,,take one,and go put some salt on it and watch what happens
( i had some cruel friends groing up)
at least the big ol slimy ones,i assume the lil ones the same,they so alike.
......wizzard of oz will come to mind.,
I am going to put little cups of beer around my plants :) They also like to have a beer! Was told this will take care of them for sure.
Hey I notice your from WV Nowhereman pretty much all of my family lives there. I visit Fallensbee twice a year.
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Originally Posted by dextrious
never been there,.
does that mean you are from here,?
its a big place. as ya know u could of been next county over and i wouldnt see ya at all unless we happen to know somebody in common,
im in the sticks,you do know how slow it is im sure,
let me know you ever get in lincoln county,
maybe we go fishing or something
peace
I live in Maine. My mother is an only child and grew up in Maine. My father grew up in WV and has 3 brothers 1 sister. My grandparents live in fallensbee its a smogy city. I have cousins that live in the sticks of penn. I'm not going to even try and spell the town name!
Maine is really close to where i live, Im in Ns canada, pretty cool to have a close U.S neighbor, anyways im off to bed, and i hope yer slugs dissapear.
Hey i wouldn't mind a canada connection! Or if you ever come to maine i can hook you up with the best stuff around :) And the slugs are only helping me now eating killer stuff i spread and die right under my plants. I would think this would be good organic stuff worms are.
yea man, i was thinking the same thing, it wouldnt be hard for me to take a ferry to maine, or vice versa, i was never in the States befor, and i dont think i ever tried any pot from the US befor neither. Thats the way i look at dead slugs, Instant fertilizer, though alot od dead slugs can get grody looking. anyways Chat to ya later and Happy growing.
Got Slugs? I got 1 word for ya.... DEADLINE
Deadline is an excellent; and probably the most popular, slug baits there are for killing slugs on your farm.
I bought Deadline a few weeks ago, it works pretty well. I also got some copper out of some nice wire and wrapped it around the base of my plants. No more slugs. But i still have problems with other eating bugs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maulrat
try lady bugs for the other bugs, they eat alot of the pests