Savingdogs-Saving the chickens

[abifae]

Apparently they don't like wheat bran, either.

 

[moolie]

We keep slugs out of our lettuce by sprinkling sand (can get bags of play sand at Home Depot, Rona etc.) on top of the soil around the plants. The beer trap is supposed to get them every time. And apparently they don't like to cross copper wires either, but I've never tried that one.

 

[keljonma]

Hey, SD, just put the DE on the ground, don't go nuts with spreading it around. It isn't good for those best of pollinators...the very much in trouble honeybees.

Sand works well too, as moolie suggested. I just usually have the DE on hand.

TR says beer for slugs is a waste of beer - he hasn't had any luck ridding the garden of slugs with that method.

 

[savingdogs]

My worry with the beer is the dogs or cats that could come along and drink it.

 

[valmom]

Oh, that could happen. It's been awhile since I had Labs, but they all liked beer! Our Jacks like coffee, but they don't get it very often

 

[Farmfresh]

TR says beer for slugs is a waste of beer - he hasn't had any luck ridding the garden of slugs with that method.

I understand for the beer traps to work the traps must be covered or well hidden. Apparently slugs do not want to get all boozed up where the world can see what they are doing. Kind of like people where the bars all have blacked out windows.

 

[sunsaver]

i used to treat my garden with DE. but now all the slugs are gone. I guess the DE killed all of them. Just got my internet back! Yay!

 

[savingdogs]

I hate being without internet. So I'm just finishing painting the hallway. I started painting it THREE years ago when we first moved here and somehow something has gotten in the way of me finishing for .....well, for too long!

This is an ugly house, but fresh paint makes almost anything look better. I had to finish peeling off the peeling wallpaper first so that took up the morning and this afternoon I finished the paint! Wallpaper does NOT work in a small narrow hallway in a house where five or more dogs live. I need hard, paintable surfaces.

I think next I'm off to put DE on slugland. How much? Like a dusting?

 

[Wifezilla]

I have better luck with oyster shells than DE. I put circles around the plants and that seems to keep them under control. DE washes in to the soil too easy.

 

[sunsaver]

I'll l have to try that. The DE does have to be reapplied after every rain, and it's not safe to breath when you're sprinkling it around. Wifey, do you use large shells, or poultry grit?