Slugs...aaargh

alanobrien

thehappygardener wrote: »

Ive tried just about everything..slug stopper, yeast or mild traps (like beer ones) egg shells, gravel,
the copper tape can be expensive does anyone know if stripped wire does the job?
i tend to use up turned orange/grapefruit skin (cut fruit in half...eat contents...put face down on soil)...collect early evening/next morning and throw them in the bin.

Yes stripped copper wire will work, put two lengths about 1/2" apart around a pot,
obviously the thicker the wire the better. Copper pipe also works well around the top of a raised bed.

hpsaucey

slugs get an electric shock off copper so if you can afford it put a couple of 1 or 2p pieces say 4x 1p's and they dont like it

arkonite_babe

There are some older threads on the board that yopu might like to refer back to:
Slugs threads here on Greenfingers

raylene

get some of that cheap petrolium jelly its like vasaline and smear it around top of your pots they cant get over it

katyk_2

Might give nematodes a try - thanks

Jack's_mummy

raylene wrote: »

get some of that cheap petrolium jelly its like vasaline and smear it around top of your pots they cant get over it

mmmm they did mine and left a trail of vaseline behind them:mad:

Scoflo

nematodes work best in pots as the are wee creatures in themselves and like to travel. They are least effective in open gardens as they have room to travel

idlikemymoneybackplease

Thanks for all the advice guys I'm thinking start early with advanced pellets then nematodes plus copper wire around pots with a few penny's thrown in for good measure. think the dog would eat the fruit before the slugs got a look in.
You never know I might keep a hosta or two this year;)

Maz

This topic might well have been done to death but anyway.

Horrible, plagued by the blummin' things eating the cats' food and leaving trails all over the place. Urgh!

Anyway, I was at a friends house today who does Kleeneze and in one of their catalogues, they had copper tape with an adhesive backing which is a slug deterrent. Apparently, it gives slugs a kind of electric shock.

If anyone's interested, it's £6 for 3m. don't know if that's a good price or not (sure someone will tell me if I've been ripped off) but I've ordered some to stick around the outside of the cat flap to keep the blighters out. Expect you could also attach it to the rims of plant pots etc.

Might be a bit more MSE and environmentally friendly than slug pellets, I dunno?

floyd

I use Nemasys biological stuff so the !!!!!!s die and don't come back