slug control

[Lullabelle]

Moderate your consumption.

Beer - honestly!

Beer
Slugs are attracted to beer. Set a small amount of beer in a shallow wide jar buried in the soil up to its neck. Slugs will crawl in and drown. Take the jar lid and prop it up with a small stick so rain won't dilute the beer. Leave space for slugs to enter the trap.

http://eartheasy.com/grow_nat_slug_cntrl.htm

Cheap lemonade works just as well.

 

[Andy_R]

Catapult.

Launch the little beggars into next door's garden

 

[stuee147]

a 3 inch wide line of sharp sand or crushed egg shell around your plant beds should work it always has for me.
iv also seen a electric fence for slugs. using a 9v battery and some garden wire (the uncoated type) you just run 2 lenghs of wire around your raised beds stapeling the wire to the wood with about a 1/2 inch gap between wires then conect one wire to the positive and one to the negitive terminals of your battery when a slug bridges the two wires it gets zaped quite funny and it seems to stop the little so and so's from getting your veg

 

[Davidc]

If you use pellets buy the organic ones. They contain a substance which doesn't kill other wildlife (except snails), or pets or children.

Copper tape works well. as does the bare wire (any metal will work) described above.

A bit slimy on the fingers but I've found the pick em up and drown em system (as above) works best. Every night for a month then once a week has worked for me in the past.

 

[buggi]

Hedgehogs! Just remember anything oral you give a slug to eat to kill it will also poison hedgehogs and other wildlife. I'd never heard of beer. I suppose there will be a few drunk hedgehogs around now

 

[mybike]

Catapult.

Launch the little beggars into next door's garden

They come back - http://www.askabiologist.org.uk/answers/viewtopic.php?id=1489

(that should get some comments going ;-?)

 

[Mrs M]

Copper tape is available at Homebase. Good for putting round the base of pots.
It's not electrified but slugs get a wee shock if they come into contact with copper.
My neighbour uses the beer traps and swears by them, think they're at Homebase too.

 

[Dave 123]

Coffee grounds.

Some of the high street coffee people bag up their used grounds to give out to gardeners etc....

 

[Bollo]

I troll them on Twitter until they flounce out of my garden

#slimyfeckers #saltydeath

 

[furball]

Chickens

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Coffee grounds.

Some of the high street coffee people bag up their used grounds to give out to gardeners etc....

Does not work, excellent as an all round fertilizer though.

Hunting by torchlight and killing by immersing in salted water. Keep at it though! It can also get you a reputation with your neighbours as being an eccentric. I quite like being outside in the dark listening to all the other noises going on.

That's what I do, plus the sugar water traps. It's an ongoing battle

Cheap lemonade works just as well.

Or just sugared water.

So wish I had a few hedgehogs around

 

[Dave 123]

Does not work, excellent as an all round fertilizer though.

That's what I do, plus the sugar water traps. It's an ongoing battle


Or just sugared water.

So wish I had a few hedgehogs around

Works on English slugs.... Maybe yours need something a little Devonian? Buckie grounds!

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Chickens

We have those but they're even more devastating to the veggies than the slugs.

Good source of crushed eggshell tho.

 

[summerdays]

We've used Nemaslug before and I'm sure we will again on the veg patch, and this year we are trying wool (I think that's what we are using it for).

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Sharp sand from your local builders' merchant.