snails

the_optimist

Last year somebody gave the tip of smearing vaseline on the rim of containers. I tried it and it works!
Not only did it work last year but I've just grown some lettuce in a container which still had the vaseline on from last year - and no slug in sight (or should I say 'inside'??? )

Pity it doesn't work on beds.........

frivolous_fay

I have a hosta in a pot and everything's ignoring it, and going straight for the herbs!

kazwookie

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Something has eaten my small lettuce plants

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

crazyloon_2

funguy wrote: »

a very good way is to use a beer bait - you need to dig a jam jar or something similar in the soil so that the rim is just above the soil...half fill with cheap beer. cover the top so rain doesnt get in but prop up the cover so the slugs can crawl into the jar - they will be attracted by the beer and get drunk and trapped in the jar - you just need to empty it out in the morning and reset up.

Try it - it works as i use it every year!

I just got back from poundland an there selling a twin-pack of "slug-pubs" if thats a help to anyone..:beer:

Le_Foot

Hi, its me again.
I've 'brewed' the garlic wash, and been out and sprayed the lettuce, peppers, courgettes, herbs and hostas, so we'll wait and see what happens. I will let you all know the outcome. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the solution to the pesky problem is as easy as this. :j

sparklygirl1

funguy wrote: »

you just need to empty it out in the morning and reset up.

Try it - it works as i use it every year!

Oh I change mine twice a week.......

squiggle37

I bought a couple of tubs of slug pellets but not used any yet, so far so good i not seen one slug or snail in my garden, last year in old house they ate everything i put in, dont know if its the clay soil they dont like or i may just be lucky, its the squirrels im having problems with.

shed_of_chocolate

Le_Foot wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I have planted lettuces in pots for the first time this year. Although so far so good (they've been in 4 days), I feel sure they will be eaten by the healthy community of slugs and snails that live in out garden and eat our hostas every year. My husband is a keen bird watcher, and wouldn't hear of slug pellets---so please, please, can anyone suggest other ways of keeping the slugs off my crops.
eagerly awaiting your suggestions...thank you.;)

Collect slugs in the evening and drop them into salt.

olly300

squiggle37 wrote: »

I bought a couple of tubs of slug pellets but not used any yet, so far so good i not seen one slug or snail in my garden, last year in old house they ate everything i put in, dont know if its the clay soil they dont like or i may just be lucky, its the squirrels im having problems with.

Slugs and snails definitely like clay soils.

Squirrels don't like slug pellets but neither to do they like garlic.

So you can use either the garlic wash or the slug pellets.

Lotus-eater

I haven't seen hardly any S&S's this year, was at Geoff Hamiltons gardens yesterday and they said it had been the same for them. They use the organic advanced slug pellets there btw.