Plant Gardens 101

HOW TO RID YOUR GARDEN OF SLUGS ORGANICALLY ARTICLE OF OVER 50 GREAT TIPS HOW TO RID YOURGARDEN OF SLUGS WITH OUT POISON By L P MARSHALL

Does your garden have slugs? If you find large damaged plants with leaf or plant damage and that annoying slime trail? Then you probably have an infestation of slugs. Slugs range from 6cms to 12cms long. They range in colour from gray or black, to bright yellow green and even white. They tend to become more active in spring when the soil is moist and plants are young. They can cause enormous damage and destroy fruit and vegetables. The main position to remember about slugs is that they although very destructive they can be also very useful in a garden there purpose in say a compost heap by breaking down ensigns in the soil so it can help speed up the breakdown of vegetable matter.

The following tips have been suggested and tried by many a frustrated gardener. this useful e-book contains over fifty great tips including.

• Slugs naturally like to hide beneath rocks, boards, garden refuse and compost heaps or sods of damp soil that usually affords them moist and dark conditions.

• one of the easiest ways to catch slugs is to Use traps. Lay boards, inverted flowerpots, and old flattened cardboard boxes around the
• Perimeter of the garden. Place damp sponges or shingles on the ground surrounding your plants.
• Another great tip is to use traps is to attract the slugs then give them something to eat. But beware, you may attract your neighbor’s slugs with this method.
• Slugs are attracted to the taste of fermented yeast. Beer is commonly used. Beer an effective way is to part buries a plastic cup of beer in which they drown or it can dehydrate them, but it doesn’t kill them.

If you splash some water on them they dehydrate-and if you prefer they could crawl away. You have to get them out of the beer trap and dispose of them safely without poison. Leonard Marshall the author wrote this guide because he owns three cats and a dog and wanted to use poison free methods without harming his pets or wildlife. Lets face it he did not want to harm the slugs either, just move then on or discourage them in the first place.

To find out more on how to order a copy or to just read a free report log onto www.killingslugs.net

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