August is an interesting and busy time in a vegetable garden, as many readers will no doubt be well aware. Most of your attention is likely to be on harvesting and tending the summer crops.
How To Keep Slugs Away From A Vegetable Garden
07.08.2023 - 11:43 / blog.fantasticgardeners.co.uk
Slugs are acclaimed agricultural pests, but it’s a little known fact that there exists another, more controversial theory. It claims that the sluggish unwanted dwellers attack plants with rotting spots, caused by pathogen sponges, whereas the snails happen to be the surgical doctors, removing the sick matter. A revolution in the traditional concept?
No, not by any chance. It’s obvious that after they remove the sick parts of the plants, the animals continue feeding on the healthy green matter – “the appetite comes with eating”.
However, the ecological supporters leave their gardens untreated with chemical substances, with the slugs thriving free. It is claimed that this way their population remains stable, without any sharp ups and downs in their numbers, the damage on the plants – relatively small, whereas the production – healthy. We have dedicated the next lines for the farmers and gardeners who have second thoughts about keeping slugs in their properties.
Fortunately for avid green-living supporters, there are a bunch of methods to get rid of sluggish creatures without using heavy-duty chemical weapons.
The following ways are also efficient for small vegetable gardens. They are as effective as the other methods, but with most of them, you still have to mechanically remove the bodies.
The worst thing about slugs isn’t their appetite, though. The worst is that most commercial products that should help people get rid of them, also repel and damage the population of some useful species, such as bees and butterflies.
Moreover, some anti-slug insecticides can “poison” your crops, and in the end, you won’t eat organic food as you wish. That is why such toxins should be avoided and replaced with natural slug fighting techniques.
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