Self watering containers = slug all inclusive

[More basil]

Does anyone have any ideas about how to stop slugs using my self watering containers as 'all-inclusive ' resorts where they only have to slither from a nice damp environment in the reservoir to the surface where there's a limitless supply of lovely things to eat? I have tried stuffing the watering hole with silver foil but they are houdinis and get around it and they seem to treat slug pellets as aperitifs.

[Urban]

I Was thinking put some nemaslug nematodes in the water, but I'm not sure if the slugs would need to touch the water to get infected


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[ButternutSquash]

Surely you could rid them of slugs, place them on a hard surface, and surround with slug pellets. And surround with hedgehogs, frogs, sentry posts, Alsatian dogs, mine fields too if possible.

I assume they are like the Stewart containers.

[More basil]

The tricky bit is to get to them once they're in there without uprooting my plants. They are even munching my chillies. My preventative measures failed (hard standing, on top of greenhouse staging), the slugs somehow ended up in there after all. Though I confess I hadn't thought of Alsatians- and I'd love a couple of pet frogs! Yes, they are very like Stewart containers though from Lidl. Nematodes may indeed be an option if I can't get hold of frogs or dogs...

[mothhawk]

If they are munching the plants anyway, you may as well lift them, clear out the slugs, wrap copper tape or copper wire around the outside of the tubs so no more can shimmy their way up and in, replace the potting medium (there could well be slug eggs in it now), and replant.

A lot of faff, but you pays yer money and takes yer choice, no slugs or nibbled plants

[Penellype]

I agree about the copper tape being the best solution, although I am convinced greenhouse slugs can fly. I have an ordinary drip tray which I taped round with brand new copper tape, then put in some mizuna seelings which had been grown individually in modules in my house and were therefore slug free. They were put on the tray with some newly repotted pepper plants. Within 24hrs 4 of the 12 mizuna plants had been eaten and I found a large black slug under the modules