A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2006 Slug Bait!

Write it down on a post it and stick it on your monitor and DO NOT REMOVE it until you take care of this VERY IMPORTANT garden task!
In the coming weeks, hundreds of ravenous baby slugs will be hatching and would love nothing more than to dine on the succulent new growth of your plants. If you get a handle on the problem early it will be a lot easier to control through the entire season!
Controlling Slugs and Snails in the Garden

SLUGS AND BEER [i](A Cindy Classic...)[/i]

What???

I gotta share my beer with Vermin????

This is a GREAT article Bill! Thanks a bunch! It was SO funny!

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promote your lightning bugs... their larva feeds on slugs.

unfortunately with the loss of meadow lands, you don't see lightning bugs like you used to. Also treating lawns with pesticides, kills lightning bug larva

Lightning bug larva

Buglady...we don't have a slug problem, but I'd like to promote lightning bugs. We basically use no pesticides/herbicides, what can we do to encourage them? We have some areas we mow, some we don't.

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I'm way ahead of ya Bill, I grow sunflowers and they love the seedlings when they have the two soft leaves. The most tender leaves. I already through the snail a bait everywhere, but sadly my chickens wont be able to go in my garden for the next few months.

FYI snail/slug killers aka molluscides are very hard on beneficial insects. If they are sprayed in commercial nurseries, we are looking at about a 2 month time period before beneficials can survive in the mico climate. Image what that bait does to the soil ecology but, there are so few options for control these days.

Maybe an antislug dance?

Interesting to note buglady, very interesting... I never knew about this. I have been doing this for about 2-3 years now. But maybe I should stop?...Hmm.. this really catches my attention greatly. I do very much understand you.

Excuse my ignorance here, but I have a question.
Yesterday I picked up Freckles' bowl and it had several teeny slugs on it...not even an inch long. I thought they were just a small kind of slugs.
Are these the BABIES...that are going to get huge???

Probably, but not necessarily... there are small species of slugs and there are big ones...

Well, I never see the small ones on into the summer, so I think these must be babies.

I guess I'll set that big salt shaker by the front door and grab it every time I go outside. They are not getting beer or Beam this year. I will drink the beer while I walk around the yard with the salt shaker.

Hey that was funny.......I was asked that question yesterday, and I told them Beer.. Here it is on the Gardenhelper...

Thanks for the fine words..