ammonia for slugs
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The Ammonia Bath and slugs/snails - it worked!!
Comments (7)of course it did.. we are geniuses .. lol ... 10% vinegar will do the same ... in my world.. its whichever is cheaper by the gallon ... ammonia is found in the cleaning aisle.. and/or dollar store ... and vinegar .. in the pickling aisle ... do buy in bulk ... the ammonia.. will make your hair stand on end.. if you get a whiff of it ... [i mean.. it is used to wake people who are passed out] i liked to use it.. but could not stop myself from taking a big whiff when i mixed it.. and then coughing after .... i finally moved to vinegar.. to avoid my inability to stick my face in it ... ... ken...See MoreHome Made Slug Controls-please share yours?
Comments (44)The bed where most of my hostas are kept is anything but clean, but I still find pill bugs that have climbed the metal stands I bought for many of my hostas to get into the pots. The bed where most of my hostas are is a combination of rotting pecan shells and the result of rotting leaves throughout the fall, winter and early spring. I have eight beds in my yard, this being the largest at approx 25' X 40', so I decided to use the pecan shells in this bed for a different look. I have cedar elms that drop leaves in the fall and lives oaks that drop in the spring, and as the elms slowly start dropping at the end of the summer I have almost nonstop leaf drop for several months a year. I clean them up the best I can after the live oaks finish their drop in the spring but it's futile before that. My yard is 100% covered with trees so it's no small task to keep that under control. I don't even have a spot for rain gauge! That said, this year I have decided to make a change. I will be removing all of the pecan shells and leaves after the oaks stop dropping, which will be in the next two weeks, and replace the entire area with cedar mulch, which is what I use on most of my other beds. That will make it immensely less interesting to the squirrels and the cedar will also not be as attractive to the pill bugs and other critters. I can't say with all certainly what my main menace has been the last couple of years, but I know what my prime suspects are. My first suspect was squirrels, but I had a couple of damaged pips this spring in pots that were covered with bird netting. I have heard lot of people say that pill bugs won't eat your live plants but have also heard plenty of people claim to have seen it first hand. I've also seen pics of the shaved off tops of young growth which people said was caused by pill bugs, and like mine, it only happens when the pips are very small and the ones that are very tender. With my choice of mulch and my southern snowfall of leaves every year you might say I have brought on much of my own misery, but I'm on both the attack and the defense this spring....See MoreAny good tips for spraying the underside of leaves?
Comments (4)Really quite simple. Make sure the plastic (?) tube attached to the adjustable head if full of water. The water help keep the tubing from colapsing when heated. Now, use a small butane torch to GENTLY heat the tubing until it begins to bend. Slowly ben it until you’ve gone past 90 degrees. Stop heating and let it cool back to firm again. You now have a wand that, when you are standing, will spray undersides of leaves with the spray shooting slightly AWAY from you. A separate $10 sprayer can be kept exclusively for this task....See Morewhat do I use on slugs ?
Comments (28)Julia, you can soak the whole plant, the recommendation to spray the underside and the crown is, as you suggest, because this is where slugs hide. Spraying any other hiding places nearby within slug crawling distance makes sense as well. There would be no difference whether you choose vinegar (why, I cannot fathom) or ammonia which is not a herbicide and breaks down into nitrogen fertilizer for any plant. Ammonia breaks down in animals into urea in urine which may be why ammonia is said to repel rabbits. Deer? Nobody claims it is a deterrent that I know of and almost nothing deters them if they are hungry. Jon...See Moreken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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