Garden pests

[Adrien (ex-nico239)]

We can understand the philosophical reluctance ...

However in the countryside with us it is common (this is the case to say): part of our land is loaned for grazing neighboring cows and the entire route even outside of us is electrified

The enclosures of the local horse club are electrified ...

You have to see that there are insurance issues that are important behind these professional electrifications

For the vegetable patch this solution seems the simplest and the most sensible, unless you dig a moat around your vegetable patch.

And when a year of work is ransacked in a single night we understand better his pain but also that of the agricultural world in general with regard to calamities of all kinds: very formative.

[Did67]

I specify then: my "apprehension" is not philosophical.

Let's say I don't like posting a fence, with that implied, "Private property - do not enter". Without my knowing it.

While I would like my garden to shine: "Come in, it's open ..."

When we arrived here, one of the first projects was to tear down the fence that separated "our" land from the street ...

Well, yes, it's still philosophy! The philosophy of a life ... Not to barricade yourself from the other ... So, in "my" landscape, this hideous white fence is a stain! But indeed, it is essential.

[Adrien (ex-nico239)]

I understand better ..... ... and I share

[phil53]

Regarding ferramol, as Didier mentioned in the main thread, I have the impression that certain varieties of slug do not affect it. Others must be hungry. So I don’t put any more. I have noticed that the crushed corpses of slugs and snails attract slugs. Now I leave them and the next evening I come to crush the following ones. I recovered the bark of a felled oak this year, the slugs come to walk on it rather than going to eat the flowers at 10cm, they are easy to crush on this support. Chance of special conditions or attraction, I don't know.

[Did67]

Hello,
Found yesterday in a garlic and small onions, which have grown in the vegetable patch of the house. I didn't find anything on Google this morning. image.jpeg
6 animals on ten plants. There were no outward signs. I will make a small harvest in the new vegetable garden to see.
Olivier.

It looks very much like wireworm larvae (called "wireworm"). I had no idea they go on garlic. I know them on salads.

It is very usual on a meadow that is converted. And one of the reasons why we start, during an installation on a meadow, by "poisoning" the soil!

It quickly regressed with me, provided you react quickly: as soon as a salad plant wilts, dig it up with a transplanter. Usually the larva is still in the root gnawing. Or immediately next to it, in the dirt! Well, I still have one or the other salad going there. Sometimes one or two in a row of 25 or 30! The "angels' share", as I have decided to call the losses as long as they remain negligible or reasonable ...

[Ahmed]

Indeed, the idea of ​​totally eradicating a bug or a weed that bothers is very counterproductive: the principle of diminishing returns means that the efforts to eliminate the last few pests are much more considerable than to reduce the major part of the initial population. considered, although total success is far from guaranteed (we quickly find ourselves facing an exponential). Therefore, the "reasonable" loss of vegetables represents a cost lower than a stubborn struggle.

[Adrien (ex-nico239)]

But I love myself or the fact of having chickens or ducks I know more can fight against slugs?

We have 2 but ... no slugs so not possible to check here but that's what I've often heard no?

[Ahmed]

Ducks are very effective against slugs and in Vietnam they are released into rice fields after harvest. Chickens aren't their favorite dish ... The ones I didn't want ...

[olivier75]

Didier,
After a little tour on Google image, it looks like a wireworm, I never had one. The thing is, it's a crop from the house's vegetable patch. I will tear the whole line this we and take samples from the orchard. I had not yet done an early harvest and it is true that garlic and small onions is really very good.
In today's ration it is the onion fly. I had stopped because a few years ago for my first test, out of 1 bulbils, 100 had been contaminated by the fly at the 100 leaf stage .... with sometimes 3 or 3 pupae.

Olivier.

[Did67]

And the hen completely "shaves" the greenery, scratches and covers everything !!! So possibly to "surround" a garden, at most ...

The Roll of the volatile slug eaters seems to be the Indian runner duck: http://www.gerbeaud.com/animaux/basse-c ... ,1123.html

But I never had a Roll's, I can't say.