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I am the founder of Great Lakes Permadynamics, Follow along to see what we are up to this week!Our Website! Discover Permadynamics My Episode with Diego Footer From The Permaculture Voices Podcast. If you want to help us out, follow us and like us on social media, THANK YOU! Facebook Twitter Instagram Check out some of my threads! Horrors of Sheet Mulch My Tiny Home Quitting the Rat Race With No Savings Our Homestead Compost Tea Made Easy
Casie Becker wrote:Small Snakes and lizards are voracious slug predators. Are there areas near or in your garden where you might be able to put a few rocks as a basking location to attract these? Of course, you might not have the ready population of reptiles that I do, but that's the first idea I have that's self sustaining.
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Casie Becker wrote:Small Snakes and lizards are voracious slug predators. Are there areas near or in your garden where you might be able to put a few rocks as a basking location to attract these? Of course, you might not have the ready population of reptiles that I do, but that's the first idea I have that's self sustaining.
"The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, these are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?"  Gandolf
Travis Schultz wrote:Okay so some of you are familiar with who I am and my experience in starting a small scale biointensive type farm. I have relied mostly on close spacing for weed control but was really liking the idea of sheet mulching beds and pathways to make a more esthetically pleasing look and to greatly reduce the weeding. I just used my own hybrid method of cardboard newspaper and straw or dried grasses on top.
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Casie Becker wrote:Small Snakes and lizards are voracious slug predators. Are there areas near or in your garden where you might be able to put a few rocks as a basking location to attract these? Of course, you might not have the ready population of reptiles that I do, but that's the first idea I have that's self sustaining.
This has been my experience. I've got a massive lizard population now compared to 15 years ago when I started our food forest. They do a great job of eating the snail eggs and small slugs.
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Dale Hodgins wrote:I'm on the edge of a moist Forest on the Pacific coast. My primary mulch is coffee grounds and my hugelkultur mounds are a breeding ground for snakes and lizards.
My garden is 150 feet from a skunk cabbage bog. I have not seen one slug in the garden, although they are endemic in the area.
One of my mounds is in a shaded spot where the snakes and lizards don't go. This area was overrun with slugs and wire worms. When I harvested potatoes from the sunny mounds where the snakes and lizards live, there was no wireworm damage. On the shady mounds that did not have the reptiles, every potato had wire worms in it. I'd say that's pretty conclusive results. 100% worm free when grown with snakes and lizards. 100% crap when grown without them.
The coffee grounds present a physical barrier to slugs on dry days. Any slug that tries to crawl across dry coffee grounds, gets them stuck all over their bodies.
I lay the grounds extra thick on the southern slopes of mounds. Snakes and lizards bask on the dark surface.
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An important distinction: Permaculture is not the same kind of gardening as organic gardening.
Mediterranean climate hugel trenches, fabuluous clay soil high in nutrients, self-watering containers with hugel layers, keyhole composting with low hugel raised beds, thick Back to Eden Wood chips mulch (distinguished from Bark chips), using as many native plants as possible....all drought tolerant.
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And I know many great trusted permaculturists would agree that no matter how awesome your system is, winds can shift, and bad things can get out of whack.
An important distinction: Permaculture is not the same kind of gardening as organic gardening.
Mediterranean climate hugel trenches, fabuluous clay soil high in nutrients, self-watering containers with hugel layers, keyhole composting with low hugel raised beds, thick Back to Eden Wood chips mulch (distinguished from Bark chips), using as many native plants as possible....all drought tolerant.
Todd Parr wrote:Hey Travis. I'm in about the same climate and growing conditions as you. I mulch everything with wood chips. I kill large areas with rubber roofing, and the voles make tunnels everywhere and break up the soil for me. I have heavy clay and when they are done with it, I can sink a fork in to the handle without a problem. You couldn't do that by jumping on it beforehand. After that I mulch very heavily, but always with wood chips. The voles and slugs must not like wood chips as well as your sheet mulch, because I don't have those issues at all. It is a lot of work to bring in all those wood chips, but it's something to consider.
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I am the founder of Great Lakes Permadynamics, Follow along to see what we are up to this week!Our Website! Discover Permadynamics My Episode with Diego Footer From The Permaculture Voices Podcast. If you want to help us out, follow us and like us on social media, THANK YOU! Facebook Twitter Instagram Check out some of my threads! Horrors of Sheet Mulch My Tiny Home Quitting the Rat Race With No Savings Our Homestead Compost Tea Made Easy
I am the founder of Great Lakes Permadynamics, Follow along to see what we are up to this week!Our Website! Discover Permadynamics My Episode with Diego Footer From The Permaculture Voices Podcast. If you want to help us out, follow us and like us on social media, THANK YOU! Facebook Twitter Instagram Check out some of my threads! Horrors of Sheet Mulch My Tiny Home Quitting the Rat Race With No Savings Our Homestead Compost Tea Made Easy
I am the founder of Great Lakes Permadynamics, Follow along to see what we are up to this week!Our Website! Discover Permadynamics My Episode with Diego Footer From The Permaculture Voices Podcast. If you want to help us out, follow us and like us on social media, THANK YOU! Facebook Twitter Instagram Check out some of my threads! Horrors of Sheet Mulch My Tiny Home Quitting the Rat Race With No Savings Our Homestead Compost Tea Made Easy
I am the founder of Great Lakes Permadynamics, Follow along to see what we are up to this week!Our Website! Discover Permadynamics My Episode with Diego Footer From The Permaculture Voices Podcast. If you want to help us out, follow us and like us on social media, THANK YOU! Facebook Twitter Instagram Check out some of my threads! Horrors of Sheet Mulch My Tiny Home Quitting the Rat Race With No Savings Our Homestead Compost Tea Made Easy
I am the founder of Great Lakes Permadynamics, Follow along to see what we are up to this week!Our Website! Discover Permadynamics My Episode with Diego Footer From The Permaculture Voices Podcast. If you want to help us out, follow us and like us on social media, THANK YOU! Facebook Twitter Instagram Check out some of my threads! Horrors of Sheet Mulch My Tiny Home Quitting the Rat Race With No Savings Our Homestead Compost Tea Made Easy
Travis Schultz wrote:Lol all my pathways are Woodchips and it's crawling with slugs. I also have slugs eating the plants through dry, freshly applied d.e. I will post a couple pics of them eating my aromatic thyme, through the d.e. if my phone would let me, need better service.
I love what the voles did for aeration, no joke, and the voles are much less of a problem than the slugs to me. Slugs don't serve an awesome purpose like the voles, besides ducks food which I don't own any and can't have any right now.
I'm just cutting slugs every night, I'm hopeful in a few weeks I will have broken their cycle and can back off the assault.
It just goes to show you that just because something works for you or me does not mean it will work that way for anyone else.
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