Slugs!

Ok, all was well untill it started to rain and then we were infested with slugs. Just walked though the back gate to see an "army" of them heading across the path towards my veggies!!

I dont think so!!

However, bar the little blue pellets what else stops/kills the little monsters?

 

An army of frogs on the other side of the path.

 

Hi Adam,

You can surround your patch with a sharp gravel moat-they don`t like going across it. I can`t stand these little blighters-they eat all my young plants. Its something you have to accept to a certain degree but I personally come at them from every available angle-

Gravel, slug pellets, hollowed citrus halves, beer traps-if I haven`t drank it all first that is. I also patrol with an empty coffee jar filled with heavily salted water-in they go(if you don`t like killing them directly you can wrap a paper bag round it -I personally don`t care and whilst they are dying I take them round showing them why they are going-bad karma I know but I can live with that). Encouraging birds may help coz they eat them but be careful with pelleting that way-you can poison them and that sort of defeats the object.

Good luck and welcome the often soddy world of slug hatred!

 

Adam

As others have said, try everything! By the sound of it, you're not averse to using chemicals so pellets are likely to be your best stand by.

I'm not convinced about the effectiveness of physical barriers after one night when I found my biggest, roughest, woodiest, twiggiest thyme bush covered in small slugs. How they had the determination to climb up into this rough and precarious place just to nibble the last leaves of my old thyme bush, I'll never know.

Another approach is to get yourself a head torch and a good bit of cold steel in your hand and go out at night on slug hunts. You'll be surprised at where you find them. Have a good excuse ready for if the neighbours spot you at it...