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

Ok- who has green fingers and help me out please?

Some little fucker is eating my pepper plants and my strawberries.

What pet friendly tips have you got please to stop little pests enjoying MY veg....

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

"Ok- who has green fingers and help me out please?

Some little fucker is eating my pepper plants and my strawberries.

What pet friendly tips have you got please to stop little pests enjoying MY veg....

Kx"

Piss on them

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

Orange peel spread around the plant beds

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

"Orange peel spread around the plant beds "

Grand. Worth a try

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By *exyspecs and supermanCouple
over a year ago

A house, a very big house in the country

Egg shells.

Crumple them up and spread them around the strawberries or any type of vegetable that you're growing.

I've don't this for the past year or so in my vegetable beds and not had many slugs.

Also the egg shells are great nutritious for the soil.

Killing two slugs with one egg shell

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

"Egg shells.

Crumple them up and spread them around the strawberries or any type of vegetable that you're growing.

I've don't this for the past year or so in my vegetable beds and not had many slugs.

Also the egg shells are great nutritious for the soil.

Killing two slugs with one egg shell

Ooooh and I love eating eggs- would Cadbury’s or Thornton’s work best?

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

In 8 years we've never seen a slug or snail in the garden, we think it's due to having hedgehogs at the bottom of the garden and lots of birds, is there anything you can do to encourage these into the garden?

Ginger

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By *elma and ShaggyCouple
over a year ago

Bedworth

Worst thing you can do is use slug pellets, they’re really dangerous for wildlife who will eventually eat the slugs.

I’d recommend either nematodes or setting beer traps

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By *exyspecs and supermanCouple
over a year ago

A house, a very big house in the country

"Egg shells.

Crumple them up and spread them around the strawberries or any type of vegetable that you're growing.

I've don't this for the past year or so in my vegetable beds and not had many slugs.

Also the egg shells are great nutritious for the soil.

Killing two slugs with one egg shell

Ooooh and I love eating eggs- would Cadbury’s or Thornton’s work best?

not that kind

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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago

Slough Windsor ish

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

Contact local chimney sweep put soot around border slugs hate it

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

"In 8 years we've never seen a slug or snail in the garden, we think it's due to having hedgehogs at the bottom of the garden and lots of birds, is there anything you can do to encourage these into the garden?

Ginger "

Hi Ginger

We’re very fortunate to live in rural Devon where we have a whole host of wonderful wildlife that meanders and settles in our garden.... sadly including the little ones who find MY veg tasty... very very tasty....

Maybe I could make a straw hedgehog though?

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

"Slug Pubs.... take a couple of 2 litre plastic bottles, cut the bottoms off them with a sharp knife, sink the bottoms (like little dishes) into the soil intermittently around your plants, fill the little dishes with beer. The slugs love the smell of beer and flock to the Slug Pubs, drink, get pissed and drown. They die happy and your plants live to tell the tale

Laughing out loud! Awesome!

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

I've never found anything that works apart from slug pellets.

Some recommend beer in a saucer, some put salt round the plants and others go out at dusk and pick every slug up.

Are your crops in the ground or in pots?

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By *tonMessCouple
over a year ago

Slough Windsor ish

Grr i deleted by accident

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

Ginger

Hi Ginger

Maybe I could make a straw hedgehog though?

Kx"

We're rural too, apparently the hedgehogs eat slugs and snails, no idea if that's true or not?? Duck and Geese are supposed to eat them too.

Ginger

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Second the beer traps option as non animal hurting well unless you are a slug.

Badgers and hedgehogs eat slugs but they don’t get on together.

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By *actilemale4uMan
over a year ago

London

Beer or eggs shells

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

Hey, I recently got an allotment and was about to rip put a plant known as a hosta, they are fairly nice looking plants but slugs and snails love them, I was told by everyoneto leave it as 1)it looks nice and 2) it keeps the slugs away from the rest of your plants

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

Best thing is putting a band of copper tape round the pots - can buy from B&Q, Amazon, the Range etc - the bigger the band the better it works - good luck x

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

Egg shells

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

Coarse cut sawdust/wood shavings work pretty good too

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By *evil_u_knowMan
over a year ago

city

Cut some fresh leaves and find the slugs and hand feed them, they are cool, you can feed them leaves. With a full tummy they might leave the plants you want to eat alone.

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By *he Queen of TartsWoman
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over a year ago

My Own Little World

Slugs don't like clambering over gravel, try covering your soil with gravel.

Alternatively get a pet duck, they love slugs n snails. OK they shit everywhere and can wreck destruction on your garden, but you won't have slugs anymore.

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

All out warfare on the buggers. Crumpled egg shells, beer traps, salt, slug pellets, soot. We're all in for total war on the little and not so little buggers. They even went for my rhubarb! Just not on going for the rhubarb.

Up here we have the Morrison blood stone for dashing the brains out of the Macleods. Guess the next slug is going to find its way there.

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

"All out warfare on the buggers. Crumpled egg shells, beer traps, salt, slug pellets, soot. We're all in for total war on the little and not so little buggers. They even went for my rhubarb! Just not on going for the rhubarb.

Up here we have the Morrison blood stone for dashing the brains out of the Macleods. Guess the next slug is going to find its way there."

I agree the little shits! Who thinks they can steal your rhubarb?

War against them has begun in Devon too!

I’ll get the little bastards!

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By *appytochatMan
over a year ago

Deep in the New Forest

Wrap copper wire around the bottom of you pots and planters. They don't like crossing over it.

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

"Wrap copper wire around the bottom of you pots and planters. They don't like crossing over it. "

Cool

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

Get a pond to get frogs in.

Beer traps are good set them in the ground so they fall in and drown.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

You can have physical barriers that deter or prevent slugs/snails from getting to your prized plants - including copper barriers, which trigger an electric shock, which doesn't kill them but they prefer not to have contact with it.

There are other granuled products that they won't go over too. Diatomaceous earth contains tiny sharp edges that they won't cross - I've not used this one.

The easy solution is to site your plants so that slugs can't cross from other plants onto your peppers. Ensure there's a distance and any barriers too. They'll prefer a cool, damper environment too, so if they don't have that, they'll not be lingering. If you remove any potential hiding spaces, it helps.

You can use Iron based materials - Iron Sulphate, I think, which will kill them

These are likely to be wild-life/pet safe, and degrade into the soil after.

You can use beer traps

, which attracts them - I haven't.

Review your set-up, tidy, no cool, damp hiding spots, keep things clear. Pick up the slugs and take them to a natural environment, where they can keep on living but not harming your plants. It needs to be a fair distance away, as slugs and snails especially are known for returning to an area.

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By *gnitemybodyWoman
over a year ago

Onestepoutofthedoor

Slug pellets.

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By *un couple 2Couple
over a year ago

Tynemouth.

Yes try to encourage hedgehogs. Best way. Organic. But don't use slug pellets or they will poison the hedgehogs.

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

"Ok- who has green fingers and help me out please?

Some little fucker is eating my pepper plants and my strawberries.

What pet friendly tips have you got please to stop little pests enjoying MY veg....

Kx"
dont water at night . Get a small pond so that frogs and other critters that like to eat slugs . Water in the mornings . Slugs like damp ground .

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I don't advocate the use of metaldehyde slug/snail pellets, as they have a harmful reputation, that's probably well deserved. As I mentioned, the Iron based pellets, also now on sale, are much safer. It's Iron Phosphate, not Sulphate btw.

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

Beer traps...use old marge tubs half filled with beer/guinnes... they fall in get pissed and drown.

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

Cream

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

Another option I've used in bad slug years is a natural microscopic Nematode - these animals are natural predators to slugs and you add them to your garden, where they seek them down and kill them. If you search for them online, you'll find suppliers and some more information.

They are a good option if it's hard to protect your plants in other ways, such as with barriers.

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

Egg shells, copper wire/edging around the plants, companion planting

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

"Slugs don't like clambering over gravel, try covering your soil with gravel.

Alternatively get a pet duck, they love slugs n snails. OK they shit everywhere and can wreck destruction on your garden, but you won't have slugs anymore.

I've seen slugs climb up pebble dashing to the upstairs level of a house.

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"Slugs don't like clambering over gravel, try covering your soil with gravel.

Alternatively get a pet duck, they love slugs n snails. OK they shit everywhere and can wreck destruction on your garden, but you won't have slugs anymore.

I've seen slugs climb up pebble dashing to the upstairs level of a house.

Yep! They crawl across the concrete floor of my greenhouse, up the side of the wooden structure in the garden, across gravel, cling to the side of the cat and crawl across the carpet when they drop off him indoors. I reckon slugs will survive a nuclear winter along with the cockroaches.

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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 (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A ring of salt around your plants and around the perimeter of your green house or whatever you have. They don’t like salt and it’s cheap as chips.

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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 *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"Have you tried reasoning with them?

Yeah but they're cantakerous, stubborn little buggers and don't listen.

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

"Have you tried reasoning with them?

Yeah but they're cantakerous, stubborn little buggers and don't listen."

Sounds like my ex

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"Have you tried reasoning with them?

Yeah but they're cantakerous, stubborn little buggers and don't listen.

Sounds like my ex

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall once employed a couple to communicate with the mice who were bothering him. It worked!

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

The two methods I found that worked well were beer traps & companion planting (hostas are good for this). Didn't find the copper tape/wire any good at all here

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

Bloody Swindon lot.

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

"Have you tried reasoning with them?

Yeah but they're cantakerous, stubborn little buggers and don't listen.

Sounds like my ex

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall once employed a couple to communicate with the mice who were bothering him. It worked! "

I am soooo googling that! Thanks for sharing

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By *.1079Man
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

can't blame them I'd chew on your lettuce

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

Have a look on Amazon for slug traps. There about 20 quid for 2

Put them in your yard and fill them with lager.

Might sound like a joke but you'll catch a shit load of them. I had them in my yard

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By *appytochatMan
over a year ago

Deep in the New Forest

Shotgun

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By *gnitemybodyWoman
over a year ago

Onestepoutofthedoor

"Have a look on Amazon for slug traps. There about 20 quid for 2

Put them in your yard and fill them with lager.

Might sound like a joke but you'll catch a shit load of them. I had them in my yard"

£20! Can't you just cut the bottom of a plastic bottle off

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

"The two methods I found that worked well were beer traps & companion planting (hostas are good for this). Didn't find the copper tape/wire any good at all here"

I always feel so sad for the hostas,left all holey and ragged.

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

You’re all very green fingered

What else can you do with those fingers?

Thanks guys xx

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

"Have a look on Amazon for slug traps. There about 20 quid for 2

Put them in your yard and fill them with lager.

Might sound like a joke but you'll catch a shit load of them. I had them in my yard

£20! Can't you just cut the bottom of a plastic bottle off"

Could do. Think they might be cheaper actually. It was a few years ago I bought them

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