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How to protect lettuce seedlings from hungry insects | Gardening Hacks | Gardening Australia

Sophie has a great idea for protecting seedlings from hungry insects. Subscribe 🔔 http://ab.co/GA-subscribe Slaters, earwigs, and millipedes are all ground-dwelling insects with biting and chewing mouth parts that can wipe out susceptible seedlings almost overnight. To make sure your gardening efforts don’t end before you’ve really begun, Sophie shows you how to repurpose a common garden item and turn it into a ‘seedling fortress’. What you need: Some old plastic pots A pair of scissors Copper tape (acts as a snail and bug barrier because they don’t like to cross it) What to do: 1. Cut the bottom of your pot so the base is removed. 2. Wrap some copper tape around the top of the pot, just under the rim. 3. To really secure your pot in the ground push it down about two centimetres, that will protect it from sudden gusts of wind and birds. Leave about seven centimetres sticking out of the soil to give your plants extra protection. You can remove the pots after a few weeks. Don’t forget you can reuse the pots for your next plantings. ___________________________________________ Gardening Australia is an ABC TV program providing gardening know-how and inspiration. Presented by Australia's leading horticultural experts, Gardening Australia is a valuable resource to all gardeners through the television program, the magazine, books, DVDs and extensive online content. Watch more: http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/gard... Facebook:   / gardeningaustralia   Instagram:   / gardeningaustralia   Web: http://www.abc.net.au/gardening ___________________________________________ This is an official Australian Broadcasting Corporation YouTube channel. Contributions may be removed if they violate ABC's Online Conditions of Use http://www.abc.net.au/conditions.htm (Section 3).