Nibbling zucchinis: why and how?
The leaves or fruit on your zucchinis are mysteriously being nibbled away, and you want it to stop.
It’s simple: find the person responsibleand then determine the most appropriate solution to protect your zucchinis.
If you've discovered my blog, you're probably bothered by slugs and snails.
You'd probably be very interested in the 7 Steps to get rid of slug by attracting the Alpha predator I have designed with the help of Science, and The slug-proof garden Design I have made (with the help of dozens of scientific studies too).
It changed everything for me. I can finally grow lettuces, cabbages, strawberries and cucurbits without pulling the hair out of my head.
Don't hesitate, you'll probably save a lot of time!
Nibbled zucchinis (fruit): rodents often responsible
When zucchinis themselves are nibbled, it’s often rodents.
At home, they were field rats. But they can also be mole rats.
In both cases, rodents often nibble zucchini in search of water. I’ve personally noticed that snacking often starts during dry spells.
So, one simple thing you can do is to place water bowls near the vegetable gardenso that rodents can quench their thirst rather than munching your lovely zucchinis.
In addition to the various existing methods of repulsion (with varying degrees of success depending on the experiment and the context), the second-best solution is simply to trap the rodents.
Personally, I prefer to use capture traps, and release the little fellows further away.
In my case, it worked perfectly using brioche crumbs as bait.
Then, once 3 rats were caught in a row, no more nibbled zucchini! They were the ones in charge.
If the nibbles are very small, they may be slugs, as is also the case for leaves (we’ll talk about that in a minute!).
Small troublemaker caught with brioche crumb, and released a few miles away.
Nibbled zucchini leaves: slugs in the dock
When the leaves of your zucchinis (or other cucurbits) are nibbled, most of the time it’s slugs.
The younger the plants, the greater the nibbling.
I’ve also had this problem, with my transplanted zucchini plants being totally devoured by gastropods.
The solution I found:
Attract the Alphas naturals predators of slugs (the most powerful predator on slugs I noticed on scientifics studies). Hosted them in my garden. And see the slug population go down without doing anything else…
And in the end, you have beautiful zucchini!
Even better! Follow scrupulously these 7 steps 👇
This is the action plan I devised following the findings of dozens of scientific studies on the subject.
I owe the success of my cabbages, salads, strawberries and cucurbits to it.
Click here to find out more:
Robin
A passionate experimental vegetable grower, I had huge slug problems during my first 2 years of vegetable gardening.
Nothing (eggshells, ashes, etc.) seemed to work…
And yet, if the Internet was to be believed, everything was supposed to work…
In short, faced with an obvious problem of misinformation, I decided to take action: I tested all the famous “slug barriers”, so as to have a clear mind, and know what to do.
I filmed my (13) tests(here, in French)
The results were crystal clear: nothing was able to effectively block the path of slugs and snails, except Water, usable with trenches at least 5 cm deep and 10 cm wide, or Copper, if used vertically, if its height is at least 7 cm
But a water-based barrier is difficult to implement, and copper is expensive…
It was by turning to scientific studies that I found the solution: adopting a slug predator in the garden, present everywhere in the world, which has a huge regulatory effect on them.
The studies show it. And I called this predator the Alpha predator of slugs.
Using dozens of scientific studies again, I constructed an action plan of the most effective arrangements to attract this Alpha predator to the garden sustainably, and to see it multiply by itself, year after year, season after season.
And to get rid, definitively (and intelligently), of slugs.
I have gathered these 7 steps in a digital book that I propose on this site, and at the end of the book, there is also a video training module on designing a slug-proof garden.
You can find this digital book (which contains all of this) by clicking here.
And what if you don’t get rid of your slugs by following the advice in this book? It’s simple, I will refund you in full (but it will work, if you follow the instructions properly).
So, don’t hesitate to discover the simple 7 Steps that can change your springs.
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