What have the Slugs/Snails ruined for you this year?

[Greenleaves]

Minimal damage to report here, been dry so that has helped, I put pellets around the edge of the path and seems to helping keep the status quo

[b0oDy]

The only thing I noticed was on one of the sweet corn seedlings but nothing major. I sounded the drum of war upon them early and went searching under my shrubs and unattended areas of my garde and found 25 of them or more. I think I'm lucky because I've just built my vegetable beds and may be they are still unaware of its whereabouts.

[Stan79]

This slug ruined one of my water butts for about 5 minutes!!!

[chefgage]

Nothing this year but last year I had some hungry hungry snails eating all the leaves off my dwarf french beans.

[spamvindaloo]

Have had some leaves eaten and seen trails but not actually seen any slugs. I have seen hundreds of snails though. Same as one of my allotment neighbours, loads of snails but not a slug to be seen.

[skeggijon]

Ammazingly had no problems with them so far this year. Used quite a lot of slug pellets and found a few very large empty snail shells around though.

[More basil]

Slugs ruined my appetite this morning. I had not used my hosepipe for a while until this morning. There was a blockage and after a lot of faffing and straightening of the hose a mixture of live and decomposing slugs shot out in a slimey mess ino my smart new bucket. Yuk

[Marb67]

Completley eaten off all the cosmos plant I grew from seed to a stump. Gutted as i was looking forward to that.

[WPG]

Same as Marb, the slugs/snails annihilated my cosmos ...one day I had had a big tray of healthy seedlings, the next day it was a row of stalks

Earlier in the season the slugs took out about half my sweet peas, and about a quarter of my purple sprouting brocolli. They're not so much of a problem now, most plants have grown big enough to withstand a bit of damage.

[Marb67]

My frogs keep them down.

[BertieFox]

Seedlings of all kinds. I grow in modules before planting out, but wherever I put the modules, the snails seem to find them and graze over the surface completely destroying the seedlings. Then they hide up underneath in the gaps between the individual modules where they are hard to spot. Most of the damage is done by very tiny snails almost too small to notice.

I clean the polytunnel of visible snails every single day and take them away, but every single morning there are another dozen or so back again.

And having finally got all melon plants raised slug and snail free and planted out, along comes our dog which has dug one of my best plants right out of the greenhouse bed and destroyed it.

Can you buy 'dog pellets' I wonder? (Only joking, he's really adorable except in the garden.)

[Penellype]

Oh dear, Bertie, how frustrating for you. I can sympathize with the dog problem having suffered a similar thing with my late potatoes I tried to grow in the greenhouse last autumn. The dog was actually after a rat, but the destruction was the same regardless.

[CaroleL]

The lower leaves on my runner beans are a bit holey and I suspect a slug or snail has been in one of the other raised beds. Oddly enough, although it's massacred a square of radishes, some marigolds and my tarragon, it's completely ignored the square of lush green Salad bowl lettuce

[plotman]

Always grow 90 percent of my veg in pots of some sort before planting out in appropiate rows. I find it ensures full rows, evenly spaced and with the added addition of slug pellets trouble free. Only real exceptions for me are parsnips and carrotswhich i sow directly