Slug Control

You spend hours carefully planting your cauliflower seeds. You monitor their temperature carefully and water just the right amount. A few weeks later you're rewarded with your seedlings that are now ready to go into your cold frame to be hardened off.

People have told you how hard cauliflowers are to grow, but things are going really well and you're feeling confident. Over the weeks you slowly open the lights on the cold frame and before you know it your ready to plant out.

Having read about cabbage root fly you sensibly purchase some cabbage collars and plant out. You then see some pigeons around so you rush out to buy a net cloche.

After months of hard work the heads have formed and you say to yourself, "I'll harvest the first one tomorrow". So the next day practically salivating at the thought of fresh cauliflower you go to your vegetable garden to find something like the picture to the left.

Sodding Slugs

My exact language when this happened last year might have been slightly more "rich", but I'm certain you can appreciate how I felt. Over the next few months I fought a losing battle against the slugs in an effort to protect the remaining crop of brassicas.

Preemptive Strike

This year I'm planning a preemptive strike on the resident slug population. Having done a great deal of reading I have decided that nematodes are the answer. Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita is apparently the gardeners best friend, being a nematode that feeds exlusively on slugs. It is naturally occuring in the UK and has no effect on any other species.

In the UK it is commercialised under the name nemaslug and is available in both a small (40 sq metre) and large (100 sq metre) packs. If you have slugs, don't suffer the heartache that I had last year, buy yourselve some nemaslug and sleep easily. I have!

We have sourced nemaslug at the cheapest price we could find on the internet, why not buy yours today.

Nemaslug Slug Killer 100m2 Large Pack£17.95

Nemaslug Slug Killer 40m2 Regular Pack£7.95