Slugs and Snails!!!!

[Knight of Albion]

I would have thought cutting in two with scissors was pretty instantaneous.

They're molluscs. They're cold-blooded and they don't have spines. Sure you'll kill them - eventually ...

[Bill HH]

They're molluscs. They're cold-blooded and they don't have spines. Sure you'll kill them - eventually ...

K of A your are a kind hearted soul but this is a cruel world, if we didn't control pests and diseases we would be overrun with plagues of em.

[green thing]

I've had loads more this year
I go around collecting them also lay planks of wood on the soil turn them over loads of slugs
Also get free beer . I put jam jar in the corner of the Raised beds with a bit of slate or wood to cover it leaving an inch gap
The picked slug are left on the path and disappear
Over night Something likes pickled slug .

[Raybon]

Keep a look-out for drunken pigeons.......

[Bal]

Ian also suffering now have planted my lettuce in a pot. It's siting on very coarse gravel and have just been and looked at it half has been eaten last night

Will have to get some organic slug pellets

[Florence Fennel]

I planted out lots of greens yesterday - I daren't look this morning. They are such a nuisance. I have far more snails again this year so far. I think I've only seen a couple of slugs, but hundreds of snails

[Richard Eldritch]

My little garden is in central london. The only chance I have of getting a harvest is with pellets I'm afraid. Ya see there's a constant stream of new slugs moving in from the neighbours gardens so the only thing that works is a few pellet around the lettuce.

[vegboi]

I'm having terrible time with the little blighted Thebes eaten 20 of my cabbages and squash going to have to resow


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[marninator80]

Does anyone know if comfrey leaves work well?

[WilliamD]

This Guardian article suggests that comfrey works very well as a diversion - if they encounter comfrey first they'll tuck in and not bother continuing to your other veg. But it does seem to rely on ideal conditions: dry, clear ground with no other distractions.

P.S. I find nematodes to be very effective, but they're not much use if the slugs are coming from next door, where you haven't applied them.

[Raybon]

Maybe sprinkle the pellets round perimeter, away from foody plants?

[greenishfing]

This Guardian article suggests that comfrey works very well as a diversion - if they encounter comfrey first they'll tuck in and not bother continuing to your other veg. But it does seem to rely on ideal conditions: dry, clear ground with no other distractions.

P.S. I find nematodes to be very effective, but they're not much use if the slugs are coming from next door, where you haven't applied them.

I've never heard of Comfrey attracting them.

It's one of the few plants in the allotment they seem to leave alone.

I can never bear to cut it back until the bees have finished with it, I usually make a tea with it then but maybe I'll try putting some leaves around what ever the slugs and snails are fancying for dinner.

[buzzingtalk]

This year has been awful for them! My greenhouse was overrun the other week and they chomped through a whole heap of seedlings. I work shift work and am away from home a few days at a time so there was nothing I could do.

I throw them very hard at a wall, kills em straight away. That or drown in a bucket and law on the grass for the birds/hogs etc




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[Penellype]

I use various methods and haven't had too bad a time so far, although the wet weather does make the problem much worse.

1. nematodes. Every inch of my garden has been watered with them twice so far. Not perfect, there are still slugs about, and the nematodes are much less effective against snails.

2. remove any I see (including clumps of eggs). I put them in a jam jar and put the lid on. Sorry.

3. Copper. I grow a lot of my veg in pots and I find if I surround the pot with adhesive copper tape it works very well as long as none of the foliage touches another surface such as a wall. I've had slug free lettuce and cabbages with this method. I'm experimenting with standing pots on the copper impregnated "slug and weed mat" instead, particularly where lots of smallish pots are involved eg in the cold frame. So far results are promising. I've also had success with putting the copper tape around a large drip tray in the greenhouse.

[Bal]

Hi guys just found this on you tube.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoBeKS64_xc