Slugs...aaargh

nimbo

i get slugs in my kitchen, how can i dissuade them?????

Kimonokawaii

Salt around your plants or the pots, or your doorway!
Sink a pint of beer into the soil..they'll be more attracted to that than your plants and drown happy!

rhiwfield

Kimonokawaii wrote: »

Salt around your plants or the pots, or your doorway!
Sink a pint of beer into the soil..they'll be more attracted to that than your plants and drown happy!

As a beer drinker I just coudnt accept that the slugs should drink at my expense!

Put a touch of yeast in slightly warm sugared water. Its cheaper and works!
:beer:

The_Plush_Doormat

Not practical for the whole garden, but you could try placing broken eggshells around the base of your most prized plants. Apparently, they don't like the feel of it as they slither around.

Larumbelle

If you homebrew the mank that's left over after fermenting works well too, and the price is right
Also hair from your hairbrush (or a barber's sweepings), copper tape round pots (I find there's no point doing this with raised beds - they either come up through the bottom of the bed, or you carry eggs in with manure or whatever)
Vaseline, salt and chalk all work as slug barriers - good for putting along the bottom of fences and walls, preventing 'air assaults'.
Bran in the top of raised beds slows them down, but isn't 100% successful.
If all else fails, Growing Success slug pellets are bird-friendly and quite good value at Wilkinsons.

There are whole threads somewhere on here... tons of suggestions on them!

Jack's_mummy

Growing success slug pellets are the only thing I have had any luck with in the last couple of years. I am going to try copper strips again this year as I am hoping that after all this cold weather there will be less about this year. Well I can hope can't I?:rotfl:

mardatha

..and they dont harm the birds ? I couldn't get anything that would hurt the birds. I read in an old book about somebody putting a "grease band" on a climber for slugs. I suppose thats just the vaseline thing then is it?

Jack's_mummy

http://www.monrobrands.com/growingsuccess/detail.php?category=Slug_control&pageNum_Recordset1=0

I tried vaseline and they went straight over it!

Zazen999

Growing success organic slug pellets are the best. Not only do they not hurt anything that eats the slug that have eaten the pellets, the slugs crawl away to die rather than explode all over the garden and make a vile mess.

Don_Kiddick

Nowadays my hens get any slugs & snails I find - they soon smarten them up!

Before we got the hens I bought a £1 plastic washing up bowl & half buried it in a corner of the garden.
I put some stones at one end and begged some pond weed & frog spawn off friends with an established pond.


It took a couple of seasons but the frog community that grew from that took care of a large proportion of the slug problem without using chemicals.

If you attract song birds to your garden with nut & seed hangers they will also help you with the early morning slug & snail raids, again without using chemicals.

Hope this helps