Slugs love damp lowlands and beds with dense grass, where they hide during the day and feed on cultivated plants at night.
Often field slugs hide under clods of soil in or near the garden bed. Gardeners are looking for different ways to get rid of pests.
For example, special drugs or folk remedies are used. But there is a third option.
To get rid of slugs for a long time, it is not enough to simply scare them away. It is necessary to destroy the pests so that they do not return to the garden bed and do not hide somewhere nearby.
Diatomite is a sedimentary rock used in gardening. It is a finely crushed rock that resembles a powder.
For soil, diatomite is a leavening agent, for plants, it is a source of silicon. For gastropods, it is death.
The beds are sprinkled with diatomite around the perimeter. When slugs crawl over it, they will lose their protective outer layer, which is why they will die in 2-3 days.
