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Helix defense with eggshells
March 2024

Helix defense with eggshells

I've been fighting slug plague for a long time simply, but very effectively and environmentally friendly: Since I cook and bake a lot, I also consume many eggs. I collect the egg shells in a...

slugs
March 2024

slugs

I stopped fighting my slugs. It's hopeless anyway. But you can pretty well contain them. If time permits, I pour in the early morning hours. After a rain shower I try to loosen the earth with the...

Slugs fight with melon
March 2024

Slugs fight with melon

A few days ago I forgot a larger piece of melon peel in the garden. It was lying on the lawn at night. In the morning there were about 20 red snails on it. Great, so I could dispose of them...

Keep snails with salt from flowerpots
March 2024

Keep snails with salt from flowerpots

I have big pots and pots in the garden with plants that taste snails especially well (for example, trumpet trees). This year I had an idea that worked out great. No snail attack since spring with...

Snails catch with rinse water
March 2024

Snails catch with rinse water

Anyone who has a garden, likes to eat his own salad if possible and also wants to admire his flowers longer than on the day of planting, knows the constant battle against the slugs. There are...

Fly net also protects young plants from snails
March 2024

Fly net also protects young plants from snails

Many here will be the same: Despite collecting these voracious beasts I get every day...

Fight nudibranches in the long term
March 2024

Fight nudibranches in the long term

I have been in my garden for 3 years and there were a lot of nudibranchs in the beginning. Almost no more. With the help of beneficials, I have fought almost all long-term. So I keep gathering snails...

Remove snail slime traces
March 2024

Remove snail slime traces

Everyone knows the gruesome translucent-looking traces of slime on the Plattenwegen or on the terrace, especially if nudibranchs have cavorted in the garden at night, worst when they have climbed up...

Maxl's ultimate snail defense
March 2024

Maxl's ultimate snail defense

Nothing grows in my garden this year! Set plantlets are radically eroded, germinating seeds only reach a height of a few millimeters before being eaten away by snails. Every day I collect, in a...

Homeopathic remedy for slugs
March 2024

Homeopathic remedy for slugs

Nudibranch pest in vegetable garden - homeopathic remedy for nudibranchs. Hello dear garden and balcony owners, who does not know them at the moment, the plague of the little slimy bastards, who like...