Dear friends hello, everyone welcome spring garden pulpit, this is
Teacher Li sharing my gardening experience in Toronto for everyone to grow vegetables. We
usually sown these vegetable shoots in late July and early August. It is a problem
in two to three weeks after emergence,
the first encounter is Deficiency problems. A lot of time
looking at the emergence of good, but it was gone
the next day up seedlings. This is often the result of slugs. Also hard
months to October leaves are bite full of holes, not
to eat. This is also caused by slugs. why. The biggest challenge is pest problems
autumn dish. The first number is the slug,
followed by Pieris, then one is cutworms or something. The
slug of harm should be said that the highest opportunity arises, the most serious
consequences. In addition to eating vegetables than slug
it there is an important issue, is that it carries disease-causing bacteria and
nematodes. After they climbed vegetables, vegetable products can cause
pollution. There was a well-known
example is the Australian rugby player, has a bet with
a friend, swallowed a slug. Later, the rat lung worm infection and
death. Its harm also brings this health problem.
So if prevention slug, this is an important issue among the
vegetables. Some friends will ask: I didn’t see the bug?
He did not understand that this is caused by slugs habits. Slug
it is nocturnal, hiding during the day and that is,
you see the day when it is absolutely invisible.
Come out only at night. It was dark when it came out and
it was not visible inside the vegetable plot. This is early in the morning to see the
leaf vegetables eaten bitten bad or vegetable shoots to the ground
leaving a line of shiny nose-like traces.
This is the typical slug damage symptom.
There are so many slugs that harm, we all thought, why would slug it?
Slugs mainly vegetable garden inside the living algae or detritus.
Wet messy dirty environment is a major reason for breeding
slugs. Slugs are afraid of light and lurking in dark corners during the day, and
start to move out in the evening. General ten at night till eleven
peaked early in the morning before they sneak into the hideout. 5-7
month nighttime optimum slug activity, a lot of water
when it rains or extremely wet ground,
suddenly appeared in large numbers, causing serious harm.
Summer temperatures rise, higher surface temperature, soil relatively dry, activity
weakened. After the cool autumn weather, more humid ground, they
enter the active peak period again. Slug like to hide in
moist soil among the roots of a plant, or damp, dark places.
These places are where they hide, where they lay eggs, and where
they live through the winter.
The characteristic of the slug is that it is a mollusk, eats a lot during the
day and night, and likes to eat soft and juicy fruits and vegetables such as cabbage and strawberries. Slug
harm is so big, we all want control of it. Now the Internet can
see these big move it, I summed up, so probably
seven categories. The first dewatering killing methods, including the use of lime
and other alkaline ash powder, ginger powder, salt or
sugar, dehydration resulting slug mortality. Drugs to kill the second
method, for example, chemical pharmaceutical preparations, and nematodes.
The third method to kill predators, such as chicken duck to catch
slugs. The fourth method to capture the lure of food, such as
milk, beer, sprinkle flour lure slugs eat leaves, etc., and then capture them. The fifth
odor driving method, such as mint and other
aromatic plant species of the onion ginger garlic in the vegetable garden
slug avoidance. The sixth
physical barrier methods, in the vegetable four weeks laid copper,
covered with a plastic film, a barrier sprinkle slugs broken egg shells.
The seventh manual capture. These methods, then generally speaking, there is no
effect? It has a certain effect, but it has no continuity.
For example, the use of lime to kill
slugs. It works well, who spilled the
slug after slug will soon dehydration death. But the
question is what. The problem is that if only sprinkled on
the inside, lime stains that slugs dead, little effect no stains remained
of it. Quicklime will quickly lose its effectiveness after absorbing water.
The situation with plant ash is similar.
The situation with white sugar ginger powder is similar. Lime and ash on soil
structure damage, and can not be reused.
The same is true for salt. Sugar, ginger powder
you sprinkle more on the contrary will attract other insects to come, can not continue.
Drug law to kill it, like chemicals or nematode preparations, the effect is
really good, but this can not be bought in Canada. You can buy in the United
States. This is also not feasible. Farnesyl predators kill
Chicken duck catch slugs, in
particular special vegetables of the
backyard which is not feasible. When growing vegetables, you can't raise chickens.
What about the food lure method, is there any effect? Effective, but
it's time to catch a slug that was disgusting.
The method of manual capture is also the same. Many people are unwilling to do it.
Odor driving method, aromatic plants aversion
has some effect, but does not completely eliminate slugs.
Physical barrier methods, laying copper wire, and that's good in theory, actually
feasible. That laying plastic sheeting, sprinkle broken egg shells as
it has a certain barrier effect, but it
a long time, this plastic sheeting or change the tide
changed the tide of the egg shell, slug equally over from above.
Someone once said that a mountain of knives was set up to block slugs. That
is with a sharp piece of glass and metal wire to a plastic sheet
barrier slugs. Speaking nice, in fact, it did
not have effect. Why? Slug body with mucus, very
smooth. They weigh less, even if they climb over sharp blades
did no damage. These methods can be summed up. They
have certain effects but no continuity, no operability, and the
effect is not the best.
Do as I say that, is not there is no
way for slugs? There is a way. Based on my ten years of experience in Vancouver I think the
skills necessary for the prevention and treatment of its characteristics, to take preventive measures. That
so-called prevention is to know what will happen, to take measures in advance.
What are the characteristics of slugs? It is like the dark, damp
dirty environment. Then we improved this dark and humid environment.
Without a dirty environment, the slugs would naturally disappear. For
example, he said, when I grow vegetables in Vancouver
six years ago, this is not high vegetable dish bed, next to
the open lawn, that slugs very much. Especially after
the summer rains. The peak time every night to capture slugs could catch the
five six hundred. At least when there are dozens of
great burden. But later renamed vegetable, slugs
basically disappeared. How to change it? Is the
use of high food bed. Vegetable before change inside the lawn, the lawn
first short cut, covered with this nonwoven fabric. This is no dish
on the walkway bed, covered with gravel. Vegetable bed too high cuisine bed, bed inside
filling dish. In this case the objective is to put a slug barrier at the bottom
of this non-woven fabric. While high vegetable bed of
relatively dry environment, slugs no hiding place, naturally,
no. After three or four years the transformation of vegetable slug is not a
problem. Of course, not many people have this condition to make high vegetable beds,
and planting in flower pots also has this good effect.
Provided that the pots placed on a concrete floor or asphalt
surface, and move it from time to time, check saucers down.
If there is any harm slugs, it must be hidden in the
pot below. To Toronto later, when we built our vegetable garden on
the measures taken in advance. On the lawn
covered with non-woven fabric in advance, covered with wood, built to
high vegetable beds. Now the practice is effective down, vegetable garden slugs which
is not a problem. Of course what to do after it happens. My
approach is this. Because I'm not high cuisine bed in the flower garden inside,
after which kinds of color cabbage in September is still the emergence of
this situation slug hazards.
I know that because there is such a situation occurred
after planting cabbage, I went to observe every morning. See slugs harm
that evening to take action. After dark
15-20 minutes handheld sharp scissors, put on his head
to the headlights look. Find one accurately. After two or three nights
it was brought under control. In addition, this
Slug Trap is now spread online , which is a trap for slugs.
Is it effective? very effective.
But what is the problem? Which later caught a slug, have
to go clean up, it looks very sick.
Many people are unwilling to do this. My approach
is this: find a wet cardboard, folded in half, which put a slug like to eat the
tender leaves (you can also use egg cartons). Beer, then you can sprinkle a little beer, attract slugs go
inside feeding, hiding inside. Replace it every three or four days,
put it in a plastic bag, tie it up, and put it in the trash can for destruction.
In this case the operation is easy and does not need to see there
are no slugs. there must be. After the operation several times, slugs can be
extinct. The third method is to use this
Slug Bait. Slug Bait, then many people
worry that it is not chemicals. I can tell you
safely use, it is not a chemical drug that is made from
corn flour and wheat flour. Particularly dry and made into pellets.
After slug eating it, very greedy slugs, eat a lot of it. After
a large number of water-absorbing eat corn flour in its stomach, the expansion Chengsi slugs.
Using Slug Bait, not a full kitchen knife to spread, but sprinkle in the vegetable garden
around the corner, that is, those ga nook La slug easy
hiding places. In this way, the amount of this Slug Bait can be saved and the
loss of Slug Bait can be reduced.
Kittens, dogs, and birds can't be poisoned either. It can be used seven or eight times ten times.
Once a week, about three weeks slugs basically
use it under control. Thank you
for watching. I wish you all a happy and healthy plant.