Slugs & Snails
 
Slugs look like snails that have misplaced their shells. Snails look like slugs in mobile homes. They both grow between ½ to 3 inches long (.5 to 6 cm) with soft, slimy bodies of grey, black or brown. Slugs and snails will chew everything, shoots, buds, leaves, flowers and ripe fruit to pieces. They will crawl up vertical surfaces to get into hanging pots. Nothing is safe from them if it touches the ground. Their ‘eyes’ are at the tips of their antennae with which they also smell. They’re really cute but they’ll munch on your plants if you let them. You can make a slug barrier around your garden’s outer edge.
- Buy a length of thin 1 inch wide (2.5 cm) copper metal from a craft or hardware store.
- Ask an adult to help you nail or staple it to the top edge of as many 5 inches wide (15 cm) wooden boards as it takes to surround your garden.
- Push the boards 2 inches deep (4 cm) into the
 all the way around the garden’s perimeter leaving no gaps or spaces between the boards.
- Make sure that no leaves, weeds or plants touch or lay over the barrier or the slugs with use it like a ramp to get back into your garden.
- Powdered ginger is an effective, natural snail and slug repellent
- It isn’t toxic to people, pets or the environment and you can buy it cheaply at a bulk food store.
- Sprinkle it on the ground around the plants you want to protect.
- You will have to reapply it after each rainfall or when the ground is dry after you
 your plants.
Toads ♥ Slugs
Toads ♥love♥ to eat slugs so encourage them to reside in your garden.
- Fill a 2 inches deep (5 cm) shallow container or deep plate withand put it in a shady spot on the ground in your garden
- Toads will spend hours soaking inbecause this is how they absorb .
- It is especially important to remember to refill theduring hot, dry summer days.
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