I’m a gardening whizz and swear by an 8p hack to keep slugs and snails off my strawberries – it works a treat
THERE’S nothing more annoying after months of hard work growing delicious strawberries than to find them chomped by pesky slugs.
But one gardening whizz has revealed how he found a 8p hack to protect his strawberries from slugs – and snails.
He took to Reddit to share a picture of the plants, with the hack in use.
“The organza bag hack!” he titled the post.
“It works! I’m actually getting to eat my strawberries before the slugs and snails!” he added.
In the picture, he’d used little organza bags to put over the biggest strawberries.
The ties at the top mean that he was able to secure them quite tightly to stop any unwanted visitors.
And given that you can get a pack of 50 organza bags on Amazon for £3.99, this hack won’t break the bank either.
When the strawberry is ripe and ready to eat, the organza bag can be easily removed and can also be used for another of the fruits.
“This is great!” one person commented on the post.
“I use organza bags to catch seeds of plants I want to propagate but never realised I could save my strawberries with the same technique!”
“Me either!” the garden whizz responded.
“I’m just so damn chuffed I needed to share the knowledge… enjoy your strawberries!
“I cottoned on to the organza bag trick too late for my strawbs,” another said.
“But they’ve been saving my raspberries and larger ones have been protecting my peppers and aubergines too.
“It really works!”
“Good idea! The slugs are munching mine,” someone else sighed.
To which the man responded: “It’s amazing!
“The local snail population must be fuming but I don’t care!”
“Amazing idea,” another praised.
“I tried this and because the bags hold water everyone I covered rotted,” someone else sighed.
“Oh no!” the green-fingered man responded.
“I’m literally only putting the bags on a day or two before they ripen so maybe that’s why I haven’t had any problems?”
“Yeah it was my first time trying and I probably left them too long!” the original commenter replied.