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Against snail eating on zucchini plants
April 2024

Against snail eating on zucchini plants

A tip against snail eating on young zucchini plants: Again and again we have annoyed us about the voracious snails, which made in the garden over our young zucchini plantlets, of which then hardly...

Reduce nudibranchs
April 2024

Reduce nudibranchs

I reduce my nudibranchs (not the snails) already two summers by collecting in the morning. For this I use disposable gloves and a cup with a lid, which is filled with beer or wine. For a smaller...

Useful Tigerschnegel
April 2024

Useful Tigerschnegel

A nudibranch native to us, but still far too little known, and, what is amazing, a beneficial insect in our garden! It feeds mainly on dead plant parts, mushrooms and carrion, and, now it comes:...

To attract nudibranches favorably with dry fodder
April 2024

To attract nudibranches favorably with dry fodder

Since my cat did not want to go home last summer, I sprinkled her dry food in the garden. The next morning, I saw a bunch of nudibranchs eating the dry food that was soaked in the morning dew....

Protect fresh plantlets from snails
April 2024

Protect fresh plantlets from snails

Fresh plantlets protect her from snails by cutting off the soil with pruning shears at suitable plastic flowerpots and then putting them over (with the top edge of the pot down). Make sure that the...

Self-made electric worm fence
April 2024

Self-made electric worm fence

Hello garden friends! Of course, those who have had problems with the little slimy beasts like I do not want to have that again. So googled and collected everything useful. Thus, I came to the...

April 2024

"Good" snails, "evil" snails: Which species (not) fight?

Every garden owner gets an ominous twinkle in his eyes when talking about snails. The lavishly pounded salad in the cold frame, the zucchini pulled on the windowsill? Hardly they are in the bed on...