What can I use to rid slugs from my hosta garden?
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These are planted around my oak tree
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You can put beer into a tray,or purchase the slug bait.
Janet Pizaro
on Apr 24, 2016
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Crushed egg shells or coffee grounds sprinkled on top of the ground.
Jo Drummond
on Apr 24, 2016
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I find the quickest and easiest thing to use is diamotaceous earth which can be brought under the brand name "Sluggo," It is an organic product and will rid you of the slugs. I just put in a circle around my hostas - making sure it is in front of any leaves touching the ground. You will have to replace it periodically throughout the summer.
Bwarner50
on Apr 24, 2016
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If your hostas are already full grown, you can mix a 10% solution of ammonia & water and sprinkle it all over your hostas. If they are just beginning to appear from the ground, you can use a 20% solution and pour it around and on the hostas to kill any slug eggs. Using ammonia is probably the cheapest method because ammonia doesn't cost much. My mother would just pull them off of the plant and pour regular table salt on them, which would make them foam and melt. Kind of archaic but it worked.
Joyce
on Apr 24, 2016
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All the above. I regularly "dispose" of my coffee grounds into the garden, particularly during the late fall-winter-early spring.
Hara Harding
on Apr 24, 2016
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I can't use the beer trap because of my dog...egg shells work just fine on my hosta and bergenia plants.
Bonny McDaniel
on Apr 24, 2016
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Lay down a hiding place for them, like a scrap of wood. Every couple of days check for slugs and eliminate them.
Sue Newman
on Apr 24, 2016
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Chickens!
Kaethe
on Apr 24, 2016
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Put crushed eggshells around and under any place they can crawl up. For me this is the only thing that lasts through rain and sprinklers. All other methods work but have to be repeated too often. I also like the board for them to crawl under but then I have to watch them die--with salt or something else.
Jean Querciagrossa
on Apr 24, 2016
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My brother told me copper strips put around hostas deter them.
Puppymom
on Apr 24, 2016
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I heard beer works
Birdie
on Apr 24, 2016
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beer does work!
Kathleen N. Hipp
on Apr 25, 2016
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I have used table salt-just sprinkle where you see them, a little goes a long way
Lois
on Apr 25, 2016
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Beer in a saucer they will drown
Vjd4961731
on Apr 25, 2016
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Spraying .I t alcohol from dollar.tree will deger and dehydrate all bugs inside or out natural
Constance Hegyi
on Apr 25, 2016
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beer in a jar lid and salt. but the salt you have to sprinkle on them the beer they are drawn to it and die that way
Linda Myles
on Apr 26, 2016
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Most of the natural solutions work to some degree but I want something more "set it and forget it". Yesterday, I dug up the Hostas around my Oak and replanted with a variety that doesn't seems to attract slugs. Don't know the name of them, but they grow taller and don't lay on the ground as much. Leaves look very similar and I've had no slug problems with them elsewhere in my yard.
Patricia fehr
on Apr 26, 2016
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Grind up your egg shells. They rip the slugs up when they crawl over them. Put them in a plastic bag and crush them up. sprinkle around your hostas. Works great.
Chris J
on Apr 26, 2016
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There is a commercial products that have different names, but something like Bug Getta. It can be spread around in your flower bed and they are soon gone. Like any other thing you use, you will have to put it down again after it rains. Sometimes a couple times putting it around and they are gone for the summer.
Colimbia1
on Apr 27, 2016
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We pour a line of salt around the flower bet. The slugs and
Bar4439569
on Apr 30, 2016
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How3166887
on Jun 23, 2016
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Dust diatomaceoous Earth on the plant and ground
How3166887
on Jun 23, 2016
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Egg shells will do the trick, and they don't dissolve in the rain
Jean Querciagrossa
on Jun 24, 2016
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