If your seeds do not seem to have germinated, it is possible that slugs have devoured the emerging seedlings underground. To calculate your area measure the width and length of the area to be treated and multiply them by each other e.

Product user instructions were easy to follow although I did feel a bit of a numpty watering my entire garden.Hostas, delphiniums, dahlias, gerberas, sweet peas and tulips are regularly attacked by slugs, and it can be difficult to grow these plants if you have a big slug problem. The product is less effective on cloggy clay soil, which has not been worked and/or has become waterlogged. It would also appear that the infected nematode causes death of many species of slugs and snails, but not all.

Biological control: Nematodes There is a microscopic nematode Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita which kills slugs - particularly small, soil-dwelling ones - but not snails. Unlike some controls, Nemaslug continues to work well during wet weather – exactly when you need protection against slugs! Traps, such as scooped out half orange, grapefruit or melon skins, can be laid cut side down, or jars part-filled with beer and sunk into the soil near vulnerable plants. Despite its size, of up to 12cm, this species of the slug is much less damaging than the other pest species.

This toxin is particularly effective against the grey field slug, whilst results with other slug species, larger slugs, adults of certain slug species and snail species are more variable. This biological control offers a pesticide free alternative solution to killing slugs, instead of reaching for a bottle of slug pellets. It is sold to the horticultural trade and gardeners as a biocontrol of slugs, using the trade name Nemaslug. However, unlike Bolt, the snail is helped by its mucus to go up a slope at any angle, including upside down; it can resist being pulled off a firm surface with an adhesive strength several times its own weight; rest on a surface at any angle without any expenditure of energy, and it can pass over the edge of a razor blade without harm. As the nematodes invade the slug, it will stop feeding, so your plants are safe and will burrow underground to die.

Heavy applications of farmyard manure and other composts can encourage slugs, and so inorganic fertilizers should be used where slugs are a problem. Within a few days of the product being used I have noticed signs that slugs activity is slowing down. This will reduce the number of slugs laying eggs and therefore reduce the new population emerging in the spring. Nematodes are capable of surviving the odd frost; so don't worry if the temperature falls after you have applied Nemaslug. Nemaslug continues to work well during wet weather - exactly when you need protection against slugs, unlike most other slug controls.Apply once daytime soil temps are above 5°c/40°f, so apply UNDERGLASS all year round OR apply OUTDOORS during the growing season . Dobies strives to ensure that all its plants are delivered to you in the perfect condition for planting.