Hey there! It's Andrew from Simply Canuck Farming. We're going to talk about SLUGS today...
and garden pests.
Stay Tuned!
Let's take a look at this thing here...
So here's a typical slug.
This one's cruising right along.
One thing to know about these little creatures...
... is they love to eat green things.
They don't care if it's a tomato plant, a cucumber plant... They just don't care!
They're just gonna eat it!
There he goes, look how quick he is!
He's actually quite fast for this tiny little 1" (2.5cm) slug.
I'm not gonna let him get away with that.
But you can also see right now the area...
... is quite wet.
It just rained, pretty severely last night
So we've got a lot of moisture in the area.
This is when they like to come out primarily.
If you know that it's going to be raining out..
... that night.
Get out there and start picking them out.
Or they are going to do wonders to chewing up your crop(s).
I'm talking... let's just see I'll show you in a moment.
This is cauliflower!
This cauliflower was planted out to just attract them... LOOK!
Another one! I didn't even see this guy
We planted to keep them away from the main cauliflower plant(s)
I've seen them right inside.
Usually you see them on the back of leaves.
I'll show you a trick in a little bit for some of the hardier plants.
How you can deal with that (slug on the leaf)
Look at that guy right there...
There's another one.
There's a slug.
That's pretty disgusting right there.
I'm gonna wash my hands before I eat my food.
Don't you worry about that!
He's trying to eat my finger cuz he thinks my finger's some sort of food.
HE'S WRONG!
*whispers* Be very very quiet...
I'm hunting slugs...
There's one right there...
Let's get eem!
He good... and he gone!
Our main cauliflower crop.
Oh check this guy out!
He's like "mmm I think I"m goin' over here.."
To this big leaf right here that my buddy was chewing on all day!
WRONG!
And that's a bean! That's a bean leaf...
He's trying to get to sleep cuz it's getting a little later out
He's GONE!
So we've tried coffee grounds. They work a little bit
We've tried egg shells. I've found them just crawling right over them.
The one thing that seems to be the most successful of everything
Seems to be beer!
That's right alcohol!
These guys love that stuff.
I don't know why, but they LOVE it!
So if you stick some what you call' beer bait' ...
Along the outside of the garden...
That's something you can do to try to contain them outside the garden before they get in.
Another trick that Iheard...
Let me know if you want me to do a video about this because I probably will, next year or later this year...
Is an outline perimeter of some PVC with water going all the way around.
Now you have to dig down a little bit...
Basically you're making a moat.
That they won't cross...
Because it's too deep.
They like moisture but the don't like deeper water.
They're not really good swimmers honestly.
Fish seem to love them *laughs*
I would say...
... if we had a combination of maybe a moat and PVC...
... with the PVC all the way around the garden and...
... maybe some beer traps (bait) on the outside of THAT.
If they did manage to go past those
They've gotta cross over this little moat to get to the main garden.
Let me know if you want me to build something like that
Super interested in all the ideas you guys are doing for controlling your slugs...
Because I'll show you again... another problem
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