How to get rid of slugs? A question that worries, perhaps, every gardener.
There are proven methods of fighting mollusks that allow you to protect plants and future harvests from pests.
How to Get Rid of Slugs in a Greenhouse
Slugs love to feast on young plants with tender and juicy foliage. If you do not fight pests in a timely manner, you can lose up to 90% of the entire harvest.
Previously, slugs were collected manually in a jar and then burned. But this method, although effective, is quite tedious.
In addition to collecting gastropods, you can treat them with pesticides. But this method will destroy not only voracious pests, but also beneficial insects. At the same time, some of the chemicals will end up in the soil and the plantings can absorb them.
You can fight slugs if:
- reduce the amount of watering;
- mulch the soil: slugs will not like crushed eggshells, wood chips or sawdust;
- Plant crops with a “smell” around the perimeter of the greenhouse: lavender, thyme, parsley, laurel.
Plant traps
In the greenhouse, between the rows, plant debris is laid out - tops, lettuce or cabbage leaves. Early in the morning, before the sun gets hot, the traps are removed along with the mollusks that like to hide in such places.
