How to Keep Slugs Off Cabbage and Other Cole Crops | Gardener's Path

With the possibility of having up to 200 slugs on every square yard of your garden in cool humid climates,your cabbage plants and other brassicas may be in peril.

Such a robust population can strip your garden of cole crops and other veggies.

And each of these terrestrial gastropod mollusks can produce 400 eggs a year; and they are hermaphrodites meaning they all have both male and female sexual organs and can lay eggs.

However, you can fight back and prevent the slimy fiends from damaging your precious plants.

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We will describe methods you can take to keep slugs from devouring your cole crops.

The shiny trail of mucus is a giveaway that you have slugs or snails in your garden.

They hide out during the day by burrowing into crevices in the soil and hide under rocks, boards, or dense vegetation.

Night is when they do their damage.

Slugs love to eat all cruciferous vegetables including (but not limited to):

Tell-tell signs includes large holes being chewed into the leaves.

A serious infestation can make a plant look like lace, seriously damaging the crucifer’s ability to perform photosynthesis.

Classic methods such as putting cups of beer or milk in your garden are surprisingly effective. The best technique is to make a little hollow in the soil big enough for the container to fit in so the lip is at ground level when the vessel is inserted in it.

Fill with beer or