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By *nabelle21 OP   Woman
over a year ago

B38

1 day I was looking at my 3 beautiful planters of bedding flowers and the next they were half eaten.

The day after that and they have all been eaten.

Now I'm left with 3 big (not to beautiful) planters full of stems.

No leaves, no flowers just stems.

I bought some slug repellent (apparently slugs have delicate feet and they don't like this) and plant food. The repellant turns to mulch which feeds the soil. Probably way to late ro save them (not a leaf left)

How do you protect your plants from slugs?

My slugs must be enormous as they've eaten enough but do you think I can find them....( I don't want to kill them just dave my plants)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No idea.

But let me know when you work out how to rid the planet of these disgusting things. I fucking despise slugs!

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By *picMan
over a year ago

Petworth

Put gravel round them or you can buy copper rings, they won't go over the copper apparently, or go out at night with a torch and pick them off

The joys of gardening

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Egg shells?

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By *iamondCougarWoman
over a year ago

Norfuck! / Lincolnshire

Avoid things they like! Even my Hostas up on a ledge have been munched!!

I use slug pellets but not much stops them except a yoghurt pot with a bit of beer in the bottom - get pissed and drown!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you don't want to kill them then you need to have plants they don't find appetising. It's the only solution.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is a shotgun too extreme?

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Citrus rind? (Or is that to stop the neighbours cat?)

Salt is good though - they won’t cross it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Is a shotgun too extreme?"

Perfectly reasonable

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Egg shells? "

Yes egg shells I've been told that works

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By *oolhandsMan
over a year ago

bristol

copper tape will stop slugs and snails

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Try some mulch or better yet, stulch in particular, it basically slows them down from all the nomming.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Also 1p coins from before 1992

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By *nabelle21 OP   Woman
over a year ago

B38


"Is a shotgun too extreme?

Perfectly reasonable "

I lovingly cultivated then, (flowers not the slugs ) its just as well I don't own 1!

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By *nabelle21 OP   Woman
over a year ago

B38


"Egg shells?

Yes egg shells I've been told that works "

I cooked 6 in the week for the shell but it just wasn't enough!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have you tried reasoning with them?

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By *utcock61Man
over a year ago

glasgow

lol.

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By *uckOfTheBayMan
over a year ago

Mold

Put salt water in your water pistol and shoot the buggers!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm not entirely sure if this would work but applying some logic to a solution, would wrapping a few rows of double sided tape around your pots and smearing the outside sticky part with lots of salt keep the blighters from climbing up your pots?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Put salt water in your water pistol and shoot the buggers! "

No fun.

I want live ammo.

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

I used to go out at night and pick them up with a trowel- then fling them over the back fence where the mardy face old bastard lived

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The story i could tell but wont

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By *adyBugsWoman
over a year ago

cognito


"1 day I was looking at my 3 beautiful planters of bedding flowers and the next they were half eaten.

The day after that and they have all been eaten.

Now I'm left with 3 big (not to beautiful) planters full of stems.

No leaves, no flowers just stems.

I bought some slug repellent (apparently slugs have delicate feet and they don't like this) and plant food. The repellant turns to mulch which feeds the soil. Probably way to late ro save them (not a leaf left)

How do you protect your plants from slugs?

My slugs must be enormous as they've eaten enough but do you think I can find them....( I don't want to kill them just dave my plants) "

Copper rings or tape. They don’t like copper.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

sharp sand round the plants and encourage foxes and badgers.

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

Frogs like slugs, get a pond

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By *nabelle21 OP   Woman
over a year ago

B38


"I'm not entirely sure if this would work but applying some logic to a solution, would wrapping a few rows of double sided tape around your pots and smearing the outside sticky part with lots of salt keep the blighters from climbing up your pots?"

It's worth a go

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By *nabelle21 OP   Woman
over a year ago

B38


"1 day I was looking at my 3 beautiful planters of bedding flowers and the next they were half eaten.

The day after that and they have all been eaten.

Now I'm left with 3 big (not to beautiful) planters full of stems.

No leaves, no flowers just stems.

I bought some slug repellent (apparently slugs have delicate feet and they don't like this) and plant food. The repellant turns to mulch which feeds the soil. Probably way to late ro save them (not a leaf left)

How do you protect your plants from slugs?

My slugs must be enormous as they've eaten enough but do you think I can find them....( I don't want to kill them just dave my plants)

Copper rings or tape. They don’t like copper. "

That's the 2nd vote for copper

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By *riel13Woman
over a year ago

Northampton

Copper... Doesn't hurt or poison anything else

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By *adyBugsWoman
over a year ago

cognito


"Frogs like slugs, get a pond"

I like this answer

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

There used to be a website, I think called 'defenders' who sell nemotodes who like to eat slugs..

They're a natural predator, comes in a plastic tray and you mix it in a watering can and sprinkle onto the soil in spring..

It boosts the numbers of them already present..

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By *aiseiMan
over a year ago

Birmingham


"Have you tried reasoning with them?"

They simply wouldn’t listen.

I assume having no ears was a considerable factor in that.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

I got some copper washingup scouring pads ...if you cut them in strips you can tie them round the stems

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Small plastic cup with beer

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By * U mineMan
over a year ago

Fun

We all forget the rules of nature, hedgehogs eat slugs, we poison slugs that get eaten and kill hedgehogs, we build fences with concrete bases, hedgehogs have to leave gardens and get run over.

Choose and do something about it.

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury


"Small plastic cup with beer"

This at least the die Happy.

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury


"Copper... Doesn't hurt or poison anything else"

Except when it corrodes (which it will do), then the salts are toxic to most living organisms

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Copper around plant pots stp them crawling over

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By *nabelle21 OP   Woman
over a year ago

B38


"We all forget the rules of nature, hedgehogs eat slugs, we poison slugs that get eaten and kill hedgehogs, we build fences with concrete bases, hedgehogs have to leave gardens and get run over.

Choose and do something about it.

"

This is 1 of the reasons why I have tried a bio friend alternative.

I do try to me mindful of bio divans the impact of it.

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

You can also get slug parasites off amazon, I think they are nematode worms. My dad swears by them

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By *nabelle21 OP   Woman
over a year ago

B38


"You can also get slug parasites off amazon, I think they are nematode worms. My dad swears by them "

Oooo now that rings a bell!

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By *nabelle21 OP   Woman
over a year ago

B38


"Have you tried reasoning with them?

They simply wouldn’t listen.

I assume having no ears was a considerable factor in that."

Ahhh that's why my singing was ineffective

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury


"You can also get slug parasites off amazon, I think they are nematode worms. My dad swears by them

Oooo now that rings a bell!"

Good luck anyway. I hope your slug genocide is a success

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By *ictoria_1976TV/TS
over a year ago

Truro

If you're a fan of filter coffee save up & sprinkle the used coffee granules around the edge of the flower/veg bed -i do this down the allotment & they don't seem go over it

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By *itty9899Man
over a year ago

Craggy Island

One easy and inexpensive way to get rid of slugs is a beer trap. Create one by burying half a container near vulnerable plants and half filling it with beer. Alternatively, look out for purpose-made beer traps. The scent of the beer will lure slugs, which then fall in and get stuck. Keep the rim of the container 2-3cm above the ground to avoid catching slug-eating ground beetles.

Or spray some WD40 on the outside of plant pots to make the slippery.

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By *oteyetieMan
over a year ago

Galashiels


"I'm not entirely sure if this would work but applying some logic to a solution, would wrapping a few rows of double sided tape around your pots and smearing the outside sticky part with lots of salt keep the blighters from climbing up your pots?"

Yes , smear the pots with something slippy like olive oil or some type of grease or WD40 it would be to slippy for them to climb up the pot.

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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago

In my happy place

A beer trap.

Or you might also have snails.

I had giant slugs, they went on their holidays... In the bin lorry, alive.

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By *offiaCoolWoman
over a year ago

Kidsgrove


"I got some copper washingup scouring pads ...if you cut them in strips you can tie them round the stems "

Tried that, didn't work. I spray them with garlic solution now. It seems to be working. Also watering my tubs which had an ant colony with garlic water worked.

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By *offiaCoolWoman
over a year ago

Kidsgrove


"I'm not entirely sure if this would work but applying some logic to a solution, would wrapping a few rows of double sided tape around your pots and smearing the outside sticky part with lots of salt keep the blighters from climbing up your pots?

Yes , smear the pots with something slippy like olive oil or some type of grease or WD40 it would be to slippy for them to climb up the pot."

Vaseline, they can't cope with the petrol in it (petroleum jelly).

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By *eroLondonMan
over a year ago

Mayfair


"lol."

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He might have a point you know: try a "lol". Slugs absolutely detest "lols".

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I use copper barriers, which they won't cross, due to electrical deterrent, due to their wetness. It's manufctured as adhesive tape, which you can stick onto most planters. Ones I've not taped, have had them move in and eaten

It means the leaves must not touch anything that slugs could crawl from.

I've used Iron based slug pellets, which stops slugs digesting, which have been very helpful. They work after rain, when slugs and snails are prolific.

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By *i_guy_sloughMan
over a year ago

Langley

We use nematodes if you search for nemaslug you’ll find them.

We also do a ‘slug patrol’ before we go to bed where we go out with plastic gloves and a bag and pick up all the slugs we can find, seal the bag and bin it. This helps reduce numbers and break the cycle.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Nematodes are microspopic animals and 1 species attacks slugs, leading to their death. I've not used them for a couple of years but the results were good.

You mix them into a watering can and water them around. They hunt them down locally. Probably about £20 ish and can be ordered online, like Nemaslug.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central


"We use nematodes if you search for nemaslug you’ll find them.

We also do a ‘slug patrol’ before we go to bed where we go out with plastic gloves and a bag and pick up all the slugs we can find, seal the bag and bin it. This helps reduce numbers and break the cycle. "

Snap!

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By *bi HaiveMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

I'd just buy plastic plants personally.

Won't hurt the poor wee sluggies and if you doesn't rain and you forget to water them for 6 weeks all is still good.

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

I'm going to be controversial.

Salt works.

Previous house, I'd occasionally come down in the morning and find trails all over the carpet. While barefoot .

Trail of table salt across the floor on the edge of the carpet. Sorted.

Current house, garden has about a million snails in it, and a shit ton of bind. They can eat as much of that as they like.

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By *hoirCouple
over a year ago

Clacton/Bury St. Edmunds

Lots and lots of egg shell.

P

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

not all slugs are bad some are very good for the garden and dont touch live plants at all ....

best way for slug control is to encourage birds and other wildlife into your garden like hedgehogs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

anotrher way is the mint garlic chilli with a little soap or veg oil home made spray that keeps a lot of critters away but only spray if you really have to as it also keeps the bees away and thays the last thing anyone wants ...our garden is a haven for bumbles bees ...love watching them 100s on a dry day

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By *uke OzadeMan
over a year ago

Ho Chi Minge City

Sprinkle diatomaceous earth on the soil. The diatoms are sharp and will shred the slimy fuckers if they try to cross it. Works really well for me

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By *echnosonic_BrummieMan
over a year ago

Willenhall

I hate it when these little fuckers pretend to be homeless snails. I left some (uninhabited) snail shells in one corner of the garden, some loose change in the other and a cup of of beer in another corner. Guess where they all ended up...

Anyway, forget copper tape. It doesn't work unless you wind it in a spiral and connect each end to opposite polarities of an electrical source. I found that placing lamb's wool pellets on top of the compost around the plant was the best defence - the buggers avoided it like it was Covid.

Natural predators don't seem to control them. I live between a reservoir and a fishing pond and despite frogs being a common sight they don't appear to control slug numbers even though they are - apparently - their favourite food!

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By *ittlemiss1985Woman
over a year ago

Lansing

Put cheap crap beer in a shallow dish and place it in the garden. Slugs will get d*unk off it and drown in the dish.

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By *unkym34Man
over a year ago

London

Copper tape around the bottem and top of all your pots

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By *unkym34Man
over a year ago

London

Finely crushed up egg shell

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

A trick my grandad used was, bury some butter tubs in the garden so the top is at soil level, then fill it a quarter full of beer, the beer will attract the slugs and they will fall in, then all you had to do is go around emptying the tubs in the morning.

The mr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've had great success with beer traps. They were eating my pepper plants. Not any more Mr Slug

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Frogs like slugs, get a pond"

I can tell you this is true. We had a pond and lots of toads. We had zero problems with slugs. We then filled it in because of kids and then it took a few years for the slugs to move in.

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By *essiCouple
over a year ago

suffolk


"There used to be a website, I think called 'defenders' who sell nemotodes who like to eat slugs..

They're a natural predator, comes in a plastic tray and you mix it in a watering can and sprinkle onto the soil in spring..

It boosts the numbers of them already present.."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"copper tape will stop slugs and snails"

Especially when connected to the mains

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By *iltsTSgirlTV/TS
over a year ago

chichester


"Put salt water in your water pistol and shoot the buggers!

No fun.

I want live ammo."

Blow torch and live out the 80s action here dream of burning the enemy

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By *hil39Man
over a year ago

Dagenham


"A beer trap.

Or you might also have snails.

I had giant slugs, they went on their holidays... In the bin lorry, alive. "

I fall for that beer trap thing every time

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By *affeine DuskMan
over a year ago

Caerphilly


"Egg shells? "

Yep.

Dry 'em out by keeping them in a food waste bag, throw used coffee grinds in there too.

Mix it up, sprinkle around the area you want to protect.

Job done, the slugs will bugger off down the street

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By *mwirralMan
over a year ago

wirral

Apparently lay thorny twigs around plants

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By *xxLandNxxxCouple
over a year ago

Nuneaton

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"1 day I was looking at my 3 beautiful planters of bedding flowers and the next they were half eaten.

The day after that and they have all been eaten.

Now I'm left with 3 big (not to beautiful) planters full of stems.

No leaves, no flowers just stems.

I bought some slug repellent (apparently slugs have delicate feet and they don't like this) and plant food. The repellant turns to mulch which feeds the soil. Probably way to late ro save them (not a leaf left)

How do you protect your plants from slugs?

My slugs must be enormous as they've eaten enough but do you think I can find them....( I don't want to kill them just dave my plants) "

Salt cheap one will do round the pots they hate salt it drys them out kills them

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By *xxLandNxxxCouple
over a year ago

Nuneaton

All the comments about causing suffering to a living thing. Not great is it

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By *ritishIndianMan
over a year ago

London

I think wrapping the edges in foil to make it slippery might work (or at least it has for someone I know). Also saw a random video on certain herbs that might deter them like rosemary or lavender due to their strong scent etc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"All the comments about causing suffering to a living thing. Not great is it "

The animal world will always have predictors. Frogs gotta eat too.

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By *icelymarkedplusoneCouple
over a year ago

cardiff

we haven't got any more slugs but we do have a hedgehog. He's called clumsy because he barges around the place and knocks stuff over

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

I've got a couple of nedgehogs in my garden that clean up the slugs and snails. Seen them on my night cam.

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By *xxLandNxxxCouple
over a year ago

Nuneaton


"All the comments about causing suffering to a living thing. Not great is it

The animal world will always have predictors. Frogs gotta eat too. "

Have no problem with animals surviving on the food chain,slugs have got to eat to. There has been some useful suggestions without causing harm or suffering.

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By *idnight RamblerMan
over a year ago

Pershore

I find the best method is to leave some inverted plant pot bases or saucers near vulnerable plants, then water well. The slugs will hide underneath in the daytime and you just have to collect them and dispose as you see fit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"All the comments about causing suffering to a living thing. Not great is it

The animal world will always have predictors. Frogs gotta eat too.

Have no problem with animals surviving on the food chain,slugs have got to eat to. There has been some useful suggestions without causing harm or suffering."

I try egg shells around the soil too. I never used pellets or anything like that. Deterring and nature is a much more sustainable option anyway. Nature normally always has the answer.

Choosing plant that slugs hate is a way to go too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Pine cones, whole or broken up. Apparently snails and slugs don’t like slithering over them, too prickly.

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