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Why Are There So Many Slugs in My Garden? 🐌🌧️ Causes and Solutions 🌱✨
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Feb 27, 2025
Why Are There So Many Slugs in My Garden? 🌧️🌱 If you're finding slimy trails everywhere and chewed leaves galore, you're not alone! Here’s why slugs are invading your garden — and more importantly, how you can stop them naturally and effectively. Let’s reclaim your plants, one slug-free step at a time! #slugs #gardeningproblems #pestcontrol #gardenlife #growyourown #gardeningtips #allotmentlife
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going to talk about is why is there so
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many slugs in my
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garden that is the question we'd all
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like to know but there are ways of
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preventing them and and if you can
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eradicate them please do let me know
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because I'd like to know
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myself but yeah we're going to talk
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about slugs today the gardener nightmare
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of everything now I shared a post on
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this on Facebook the other day and it
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we can talk about all the ways
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of how to prevent them and why there are
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so many slugs in the allotment and in
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the garden what attracts them
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specifically to your garden now one of
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the main reasons is moisture slugs are
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highly dependent on moisture for
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survival and reproduction they need damp
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environments to move and feed
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effectively and their soft bodies are
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vulnerable to drying out so the causes
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of excessive moisture is overwatering
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poorly drained soil or prolonged wet
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weather create the perfect environment
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for Slugs to thrive now this is
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the things what I usually do is when I'm
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watering I water in the daytime so that
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it seeps into the soil and then it
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doesn't stay damp too long but the it
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stays damp underneath but it doesn't
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stay damp on top so if I if you were to
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water at the end of the day at night
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obviously it won't dry out as fast on
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the top so then slugs will like and
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they'll all come out so I tend to water
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in the morning rather than at a night
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shade and shelter slugs of nocturnal
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creatures that avoid direct sunlight
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obviously another reason why water in
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the daytime during the day they seek
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shaded cool and protected spots to hide
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and conserve the moisture common hiding
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spots dense plant foilage mulch rocks
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fallen leaves and garden deers such
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serve as shelters these areas provide
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the protection the Slugs need to hydrate
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and safe from
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predators so one thing that you can do
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is check around where they'd possibly be
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hiding and get rid of them
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hopefully abundant food supply slugs are
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voyous feeders with a preference for
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tender succulent plants a garden rich in
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their favorite foods is a magnet for the
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pests what attracts them young seedlings
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leafy greens flowers declay DEC decaying
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plant material are particularly
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appealing to
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slugs lack of natural Predators slugs
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naturally have many predators including
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Birds frogs hedgehogs and some insects
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however if you Garden lacks these
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natural allies slug populations can grow
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unchecked so yeah attracting Wild Life
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GE alotment will prevent slugs as
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need how can you tell of a sign of slug
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infestation obviously you can tell from
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slime trails
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you can tell where slugs have been or
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where they're hiding so follow the trail
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and you'll often find the
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slug chewed leaves obviously when you go
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down and you see that leaves have been
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damaged that's obviously when you know
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that it's one of their favorite plants
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damaged stems and
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seedlings severed stems chewed bases and
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collaps seedlings are a sign of slug
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activity nighttime activity like I said
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slugs like to come out at night the
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nocturnal and do most of their feeding
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under the cover of
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Darkness go out with a flashlight
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inspect your garden at night look
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closely at plants soil and shaded areas
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go and hunt them slugs
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down so how can we reduce slugs in your
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garden with these effective strategies
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remove any hiding places slugs th in
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shadeed damp environments where they can
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hide during the day eliminating these
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hiding spots reduces their presence
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clear away dead brid fallen leaves and
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overgrown vegetation keep garden beds
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tidy prun dense foilage and avoid using
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thick mulch near vulnerable plants this
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creates an environment that is less
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hospital to
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slugs improve your drainage aate the
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soil and ensure proper drainage in your
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garden beds water plants in the morning
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rather than the evening like I said
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that's what I do allowing the soil to
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dry during the day of void overwatering
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to minimize damp conditions attract
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natural predators that is one of the
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biggest things you can do create a
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wildlife friendly Garden to attract
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these slug eating Predators provide
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shelter like logs or rck P set up water
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dishes or install bird houses and
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Hedgehog nesting boxes to encourage
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these animals to visit your garden and
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then they'll go around eating all the
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SLS up so it saves you a job going
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around you slug resistant PL
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in corporate plants like lavender
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Rosemary geraniums and ferns that slugs
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tend to avoid mix slug resistant plants
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with more vulnerable crops to act as a
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natural deterrent and create a balanced
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planting scheme setup traps obviously
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the biggest one is beer citrus peels or
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damp cardboard to attract slugs check
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traps daylight and dispose of trap slugs
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far from your garden to prevent them
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from returning replace bait regulate for
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consistent results create barriers you
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crushed
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eggshells or gravel around the base of
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plants these materials irritate and
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deter slugs from
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Crossing so yeah those are some of the
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things that you can do to stop slugs now
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one of my plot neighbors he came up with
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this invention what I thought was
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absolutely fantastic I won't be able to
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make one of these so if you are good
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with electrical things try this out he
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basically put two wires around his
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raised beds and connected it to a
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battery so that when the slug went over
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both wires it shocked it and they fell
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off of the raised bed now I thought that
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was fantastic obviously if you're
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against like you might class that as
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cruel I don't know but it kept the Slugs
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off the plants and yeah I thought that
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was a good little tip so if you're good
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at anything like that have a go and see
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if you can do it so that is basically
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all our tips and advice on how to stop
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slugs from eating everything so give
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some of a try or if you've got anything
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that you recommend send me a message
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because I'd love to find out how to stop
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slugs because they do eat everything on
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my plot uh but I tend to let a lot of
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the wheat grow so then it deters them
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from the actual
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vegetation but yeah please do let me
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know how you keep slugs off your garden
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so that has been today's podcast I hope
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you've enjoyed it I hope it's giving you
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some ideas on how to prevent slugs from
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eating everything so until next time
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