The slug nematodes were used as recommended and within a week we could find only isolated individuals around the garden.

They will chew holes in ripening Strawberries and Tomatoes, and also eat Potatoes, which are of course grown underground, so you may be unaware that such crop is even being attacked. The idea isn’t to drown them but to keep them moist so the nematodes can hunt them out” This, it states, now makes the ‘perfect environment’ for any slug killing nematodes and bacteria to breed and pour the soup around your vulnerable plants after two weeks and like the version I am about to describe, this ‘soup’ will give up to 6 weeks of slug protection. Tidy up or remove any piles of rubble or stones close to cultivated areas, as well as stacks of flowerpots, and piles of plant debris.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

They are produced in specially designed air lift fermentors, which minimises mechanical damage/injury to living organisms, in huge 1000-20,00 litre capacity vats on a three dimensional matrix of foam chips impregnated with the required foods and nutrients and later inoculated with the symbiotic bacteria, ( Moraxella osloensis). Voracious slugs can decimate tender plants – eating twice their own body weight each day with their 25,000 teeth!Nemaslug® contains millions of microscopic beneficial nematodes (Phasmarhabditis Californica) that occur naturally in your soil. Failure by the gardener in any of the above instructions could affect the nematodes making them ineffective. 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. Biological control: Nematodes There is a microscopic nematode Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita which kills slugs - particularly small, soil-dwelling ones - but not snails.