The beer traps have been attracting the slugs. She’s been battling the slugs for two and a half weeks. I’ve been finding them everywhere this year.” “I don’t know how they live in that water, you’d think they would drown. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. On Thursday morning, she removed the pond flowers and found more. Rose found slugs even at the bottom of her backyard pond. On Wednesday, she was slug hunting at midnight with a headlamp on, setting beer traps and spreading coffee and salt in various areas. “I’ve been a gardener for years and I think that this is the worst this has ever been,” she says. This year, the slugs have been eating her hostas and ferns. The slugs have been terrible this year, says gardener Sandra Rose who lives in the Nutana area. Alternatively, they can be repelled using a mint tea spray, which acts as a natural insect repellent. Liota gardens organically, without pesticides, so the removal has to be done by hand. Usually, potato bugs are prevalent, and she removed them right away. The slugs don’t like crunching along on the dry soil, but when the air is humid, they slip around easily. “So, the tomatoes you can process have been damaged.” “We don’t usually have this problem because it’s usually drier, but because of all the humidity, now we’ve got garden slugs also, blight was quite prevalent,” she said. She said she’s never really had trouble with slugs before. Liota lives in the Lakeview area, and has been a vegetable gardener for five years. Other times, it’s on the branch, you can see it,” she said. So if they travel on the tomato, sometimes they leave that sludge mark on the tomato. “They leave a silvery, slippery gunk wherever they travel. She hasn’t seen one, but she finds their trails. In July, she noticed she had a problem with the slugs in her garden. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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