Permaculture designer, Ludwig Appeltans, gives 20 practical tips for controlling slugs so that you do get to eat your harvest.
There are many tips about how to fight these invertebrates
circulating around allotments and gardens – some are fables, some are
more effective than others. The reality is that no single thing does the
trick. In short, the solution is to create an ecosystem in your garden
that will help to create a balance. A plague is caused by an imbalance, a
lack of predators that keep the population of slugs under control.
Sounds easier than it is, but if you love your garden it greatly
increases the joy and once established it looks after it self!
A number of years ago I started a forest garden in the middle of a
very wet woodland, in the midst of a slug stronghold. I could easily
collect a large jarful of slugs at dusk. After an intensive research and
learning process with many failures, I only had to go out with a torch
in the dark once every week or so and even then I only found a few. I
was able to grow anything I liked without losing many plants to slugs. I
have had to learn to live with some losses but still feel I can shout
"Victory!"
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