{"id":987,"date":"2012-04-11T13:11:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T12:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greensideup.ie\/?p=987"},"modified":"2024-04-15T08:49:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T07:49:12","slug":"slugs-how-to-deal-with-them-organically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/slugs-how-to-deal-with-them-organically\/","title":{"rendered":"Slugs ~ 15 ways to deal with them organically"},"content":{"rendered":"
Slugs, slugs, slugs…. When we experience wet weather (which can seem like more than our fair share in Ireland), gardeners can be overwhelmed by slugs and snails. What’s the best solution to ridding our vegetable patches, gardens and borders of these slimy little creatures, without automatically reaching for the slug pellets? It’s the question I’m asked the most and everyone has their own answer.<\/p>\n
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However, before you start obliterating the garden of every last slug in sight, it’s important to know that not all of them are baddies that want to devour all our plants.<\/p>\n
The green cellar slug (which we found with a mouth stuffed full of pizza one evening!) like to hang out on compost heaps and also enjoy a diet of mould and algae. The John Innes Centre have a page<\/a> highlighting the most common in the UK (which often live in Ireland too) helping to identify slugs, and I’d recommend you take a peek.<\/p>\n Once you’ve established whether you’re looking at a Brown Field slug or a Budapest Keeled, what can you do to about them?<\/p>\n From beer to salt, copper to egg shell’s, I’ve heard lots of tips and advice over the years. Here are the most common fifteen:<\/p>\n