Slug free garden for the first time.

[Pete Judd]

Here in the wet Pnw, We have a LOT of slugs, snails without shells. Ducks love them but, will destroy a vegi garden is short work. In the last month I have added I guess around 1500 pounds of coffee grounds to the garden. No slugs anywhere around the garden. Worms are everywhere. I make the rounds to the local resturants, and have them saving them for me, I just give them a washed bucket, and the next day pick it up. Wow is it ever improving my soil in the garden, and all it costs me is a trip to town, as I do every day anyway.

 

[dave1949]

Interesting. Come to think of it, I don't see slugs around our compost pile where our grounds go. Three years ago we had slugs everywhere, last few have not been bad. Diatomaceous earth sprinkled around is supposed to help too.

 

[weedpharma]

I do a nightly wander with a torch. When I find one of the slippery little suckers, I sprinkle a pinch of potassium sulphate (sulphate of potash) over them. This kills them and fertilises the garden. Takes a fair amount of time but works.

Weedpharma

 

[wngsprd]

I haven't done anything to control them, but we haven't seen very many this year.

Here are a couple of photos of a two of them getting to know each other better several years ago.

 

[Jstpssng]

It may be a cyclical thing... I'm usually inundated but have seen very few this year. :thumbsup:

I thought it was going to be a bad year when I started seeing them in the bare patches when the snow was just starting to melt.

 

[Pilot]

In '94 we were inundated with them. I had just retired, so each morning I walked around the yard with a shovel and chopped them in half. After a couple days, I started counting them and by the end of slug season my kill count was around 6,500!

Haven't had much of a problem since then, as jstpssng said, it's probably a cyclical thing. Or maybe a benefit of global warming.