Sneaky Super Slugs!

[SeleneMourie]

My peas are in a large patio container, it has copper wire wrapped round it and covered by 2ltr plastic bottles, today i found 6 1cm sized slugs on their leaves!
Were they hiding in the mud?

Sneaky sneaky sneaky.....

[Pa Snips]

Aye, they'll get in through the drain holes in the bottom of the planter and slither up through the dirt to get their prize.

[Peas'n'Kews]

also, slug eggs live in the soil..... (the wee sneaks!)

[Kaiya]

I was impressed with a particular slug I found on Monday. I should have taken a photo. I'd noticed that something was taking subtle nibbles out of my brassica seedlings in their modules, in my 3TB. Nothing ravished, but little munches, and moving the plants away from the easy-to-scale-if-you're-a-mollusc plastic walls didn't help. So I was thinking I have a little slug, hidden somewhere. I went through the trays and found, curled up in a module around a brassica, the largest mottled snot coloured slug I have ever seen - 3 inches long and 1.2-2cm wide (I like to mix my metric and imperial). It filled the module surface. How it had not consumed the entire tray of seedlings is amazing, maybe it was trying to stay under the radar by eating tiny amounts. If so, it worked for a while!