Do Slugs like Alpine Strawberries?

sleepymy

MRSTITTLEMOUSE wrote: »

Will you tell that to the five snails I found in one of my hanging baskets yesterday.Seriously though I think the slugs and snails must be in the process of taking over the world at the moment.I have most of my plants in containers in a yard garden( fruit and flowers.)I use slug pellets but they still come out nightly.I can pick off about 60 each night coming out of the walls alone.It's horrible watching them crawling out of the tiny lttle gaps in the mortar,makes my flesh creep.

Oddly enough people I know who make hanging baskets have noticed slimy inhabitants in them this year for the first time.

Moneybubbles

I have (had) loads of snails and have given up and put down some slug/snail pellets down.

So far its working and also works very even after a downpoor of rain hurray!

the_optimist

sleepymy wrote: »

Oddly enough people I know who make hanging baskets have noticed slimy inhabitants in them this year for the first time.

Me too, but I already had some there last year (not the same, though).

The slugs don't touch my alpine strawberries, but as others already mentioned, the snails do.

I think the slugs and snails must be in the process of taking over the world at the moment.

Where are you, Steven Spielberg, surely this would make a good film?!:rotfl:

Off to smear some Vaseline on the tubs...

Soubrette

OK, you guys have persuaded me, I'm going to try the vaseline smeared around my pots

I'm trying the organic way but those slugs are really trying my patience this year!!

Thanks everyone for your help :beer:

Sou