What are you guys doing with all these slugs?

Leif

roddydogs wrote: »

Yes, put tinned dog food out, the Foxes will love it.

Quite...

Catden_2

I have a small back garden with a resident toad & frog, this year even they can't keep up. The slugs & snails are gathered up every evening & my husband takes them for a walk, odd ones in the day go into the green recycle bin.
They have never bothered us much, but this year its dreadful & frankly I am sick to death of them,:mad: so trying beer trap as well.

cyclonebri1

Leif wrote: »

I am sure you know milk and bread are not good for hedgehogs. Tinned dog food is ideal. However, that can also attract rats, so I suspect hedgehogs is not a realistic alternative to slug pellets.

:T:T:T Yes, it was a trap;);)

Forget hedgehogs, you'll kill more of them trying to cross the road to your garden, than you will snails and slugs.

I'm sorry but the earlier post about attracting hedgehogs makes me want to cancel my subscription to greenpeace due to misguided ideological fairy dust.
Please keep it real.:A

sam.4000

I did see a hedgehog on my neighbours lawn last night. How would you suggest I catch it?

Are you for real?

Zeusiblue

Yes mine go to the chickens too

ed110220

I squash them. An advantage is that slugs are cannibalistic and soon more come out to feast on their squashed relatives, at which point they get squashed too, and so on.

Seriously though despite all the squashing I have a serious problem this year. They decimated my lupins and delphiniums, destroyed some of my courgette plants as soon as I planted them and ate the first courgettes on those that survived.

I've put down iron phosphate slug pellets but it doesn't seem to have made much difference.

Leif

ed110220 wrote: »

I squash them. An advantage is that slugs are cannibalistic and soon more come out to feast on their squashed relatives, at which point they get squashed too, and so on.

Seriously though despite all the squashing I have a serious problem this year. They decimated my lupins and delphiniums, destroyed some of my courgette plants as soon as I planted them and ate the first courgettes on those that survived.

I've put down iron phosphate slug pellets but it doesn't seem to have made much difference.

All my plants - except chard which I discovered I am not keen on - were half or fully eaten by the slugs. The metaldehyde slug pellets do work very well. I come out in the morning and find large splats of slime on the flower and veg beds, and a quick search finds a dead slug near each slime splat. If you are organic, you might be able to go out at night with a torch and throw them into a bucket of very salty water. A torch from someone like Fenix, Sunwayman and 4Sevens is ideal.

ed110220

Leif wrote: »

All my plants - except chard which I discovered I am not keen on - were half or fully eaten by the slugs. The metaldehyde slug pellets do work very well. I come out in the morning and find large splats of slime on the flower and veg beds, and a quick search finds a dead slug near each slime splat. If you are organic, you might be able to go out at night with a torch and throw them into a bucket of very salty water. A torch from someone like Fenix, Sunwayman and 4Sevens is ideal.

Do you think the metaldehyde ones work better than phosphate?

The garden was neglected till I moved in last winter, so there was probably a big slug and snail population. Can't say how many I've crushed either when I just happen to see them or if I go out specially on a wet evening to find them!

Leif

ed110220 wrote: »

Do you think the metaldehyde ones work better than phosphate?

The garden was neglected till I moved in last winter, so there was probably a big slug and snail population. Can't say how many I've crushed either when I just happen to see them or if I go out specially on a wet evening to find them!

I have no idea. I've never had to use slug pellets before, but my garden (moved in early this year) is crawling with huge slugs and they eat everything if not dealt with. I would rather use the phosphate ones if they work, as apparently they are a bit more eco-friendly, but I wanted to make sure I killed the slimy gits.

deniseduck

The slimy little s*ds ate my chard, too. I cut the slugs in half with my secateurs and stamp on the snails, which appear to be half mountaineer as they have been able to climb up onto the waisthigh staging in my greenhouse to get at anything they fancy that is up there. Which is everything the blackbird hasn't been at, as it dug up all my basil seedlings when I wasn't looking. Wouldn't hurt it, though!