Control Slugs in the Garden: Plant Slug Resistant Vegetables

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Plant slug-resistant plants if slugs persist after treatment.
Plant slug-resistant plants if slugs persist after treatment.
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“The Minimalist Gardner,” by Patrick Whitefield, is a great read for anyone looking to maximize production with limited time.
“The Minimalist Gardner,” by Patrick Whitefield, is a great read for anyone looking to maximize production with limited time.

The Minimalist Gardener: Low Impact, No Dig Growing, (Permanent Publications, 2017), by Patrick Whitefield, teaches new gardners how to create a lasting garden. Whitefield shares with readers the right plants and flowers needed for a perennial garden. Find the plants that work best for you and your garden area. This excerpt is located in Chapter 9, “Slugs.”

When we moved into this hamlet, one of our new neighbours said, “The only way to grow any vegetables here is to have a large tub of slug pellets and use them constantly.” After our first year’s gardening I could see her point. Even for the wet west of Britain, the spot is unusually sluggy.

Our second season in the west was a notoriously bad slug year over most of the country, so you can imagine what it was like here. Our garden produced little food. Its main yield being knowledge about how to co-exist with slugs.

Of course, there are chemical, mechanical and biological methods of control, some of which we have tried in our garden. But we have also learned a good deal about how to avoid competing with slugs, by choosing the vegetables they least like to eat, and growing others in a way that avoids slug attack. So let’s look at the different forms of slug control available to the permaculturist.

Chemical Control

  • Published on Apr 4, 2018
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