Help, something is eating my brug leaves

15 years ago

I need help again everyone, something is eating the leaves off of my seedlings. The bigger plants remain untouched, just seedlings and I can't find any bugs on the plants. Any ideas for a solution?

Thanks, Linda

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fool4flowers
15 years ago
Check with a flashlight at night or early morning for slugs or snails or mist with water and watch for a tiny green worm to wiggle that is the same color as the leaves. Are they cutting, chewing or making holes?
daniellalell
15 years ago
can you get a pic of the damage?

Here's something I am trying right now..
My dats were getting chewed to shreds, from god only knows what..even ate the buds. I threw some (what I thought at the time was pine) Red Cedar Shavings from, my DD's mouse habitat around the bases of the dats..nothing has touched them since. They have leaves now!! lol.
So yesterday I went and did it around all my brugs..hoping it works on them too. We'll see. If you have any you may wanna just give it a try for now? I had tried so many things for slugs, nothing had worked before now except picking and smashing. Diatomaceous earth would work for slugs and snails, I just can't get any around here right now for some reason.
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Ok, another thing I saw on a garden show the other day (I watch a lot of them, lol) He said you could put epsom salt in the bare place between the plants and not water it in and it would kill slugs and snails when they crawl over it and whatever got washed into the soil was good for the plants. I don't imagine you could use a whole lot at a time or do it like every day but maybe something to get a bunch of them at once if you put it down one evening and not water for a couple of days. Just don't put in right next to the plant so it doesn't burn it.

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