Please can someone help, huge slug problem

[gardenpassion]

For snails, I use a catapult and send them into orbit! Cheers, Tony.

We use a badminton racket, but they have a homing device I think!!!

[GardenFaery]

Want me to send the Boys Round? LOL

[gardenpassion]

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Want me to send the Boys Round? LOL

Haha, yes could be the 'nightmare on lottie street' for all slugs.... I can see them quivering on the cauli !! ( Working on that method too.... tadpoles in a sunken bucket with lots of pond weed... growing slowly!)

[Urban]

Nemetodes seem to of really cut down the amount of slugs/snails I have in my garden, I still find the odd one or two though, my garden back onto some woods so I'm bound to get some new arrivals all the time

the barstewards have been attacking my courgettes, they ate all the flowers grrrrrr
I have mixed chilli powder with oat bran and put it around my courgette plants hopefully it might deter em a bit, at least till it rains again :/

[gardenpassion]

I have mixed chilli powder with oat bran and put it around my courgette plants hopefully it might deter em a bit, at least till it rains again :/

mmm, chilli powder and oat bran. (flavouring).. maybe stick a slug or two on the barbie....:?

[Vince G]

We've got frogs in our garden. It's only 40 ft × 14ft but is fenced all around right to the ground, so I have no idea how they got in. There are at least 3 - we've seen 3 in one go one rainy night a couple of weeks back. The garden faces directly south so they hide under the south and west fences where it's nice and shady. We're careful not to let them escape when we come in the back gate as I gather they are good for the garden. Presume they eat slugs and their eggs. What else do they nosh on...surely not snails, they're a bit crunchy aren't they..?!

[Urban]

mmm, chilli powder and oat bran. (flavouring).. maybe stick a slug or two on the barbie....:?

Hmm slugs dipped in beaten egg then rolled In oatbran chilli mixture, cooked until golden brown, tasty

NOT!

One of my favourite foods is breaded scampi, which I suppose is not all that different, no way I'd eat a slug though

[gardenpassion]

[QUOTE=Urban;1005145]Hmm slugs dipped in beaten egg then rolled In oatbran chilli mixture, cooked until golden brown, tasty, NOT .

Please note..... was only joking!!!!!!!!!

[pdblake]

.....but they have a homing device I think!!!

I think they do of sorts. I seem to remember watching a wildlife program where they caught a load, dotted them with nail varnish and let them loose somewhere else. A few days later they were back again.

Ooh, and here's a link to the story: BBC News - Snails 'have a homing instinct'

So, if you don't want them back, squish 'em

[Urban]

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Hmm slugs dipped in beaten egg then rolled In oatbran chilli mixture, cooked until golden brown, tasty, NOT .

Please note..... was only joking!!!!!!!!!

Yeh so was I

[hippychick253]

I'm doing this

The war on slugs starts at home - Telegraph

There is a thread on here all about this, just type 'nematodes' into the search box

Also, for the first time I'm trying the 'dog friendly' slug pellets, the ferric phosphate ones and they have really helped, (and my 2 pooches haven't shown the slightest interest). And they don't dissappear with the rain. Mine are called "Slug Death XL", they are currently on offer at my local garden center, 2 for 8 spondoolies.

Copper wire seems to be working on a courgette plant too.....just made a circle of it slightly bigger than the whole plant....I'm trying lots of different experiments this year, never had so many slugs, hand caught nearly 100 of the bleeders each night on several nights running :-(

Good luck!

[gardenpassion]

"Slug Death XL",!

well even if it doesn't do what it is meant to, the name makes you feel better....

I am using slug gone... and they seem to have done, its 99p from homebargins, brilliant. and organic too. Dont like the blue pellets, I cant help but think they must put chemicals in the vege ?

[gardenpassion]

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Yeh so was I

OH, thank Heavens for that, I thought you were being serious and considered me as some crazed woman who would eat the slimy little critters !!

[Two_Sheds]

That nematode thing, I might give that a go. I've nipped this bit from the Telegraph link that Hippy Chick (and others) have posted:

Collect as many slugs as you can find in a jar that has a few small air holes punched in the lid with a hammer and nail – and a few weed leaves for them to eat.

Once you have caught around 10 to 20 slugs – the more you have the better it works – decant them into a bucket with an inch or so of water in the bottom for humidity and a few more handfuls of leaves to make an edible floating island for your catch.

place a concrete slab (or any firm cover) over the top to seal them in. The bucket is the perfect environment for the nematodes and bacteria to breed. Nematodes spread in water, so check regularly, giving the slugs a stir with a stick. The idea isn’t to drown them but to keep them moist so the nematodes can hunt them out.

After a fortnight a high level of nematodes will have built up inside the bucket and the slugs will have died from infection.
Now, you can dilute the brew: fill the bucket to the top from the tap and decant into a watering can fitted with a rose.
Prevent the weed and slug mixture from falling into the can with a filter of chicken wire folded over the can so it stays put while you pour.
Water the sieved brew around vulnerable plants – this slug killer gives up to six weeks of protection.
Save the contents of the chicken wire sieve (uurrgh!) to start off your next nematode brew.

(this is going to stink isn't it?)

[Chocolate8me]

We've got frogs in our garden. It's only 40 ft × 14ft but is fenced all around right to the ground, so I have no idea how they got in. There are at least 3 - we've seen 3 in one go one rainy night a couple of weeks back. The garden faces directly south so they hide under the south and west fences where it's nice and shady. We're careful not to let them escape when we come in the back gate as I gather they are good for the garden. Presume they eat slugs and their eggs. What else do they nosh on...surely not snails, they're a bit crunchy aren't they..?!

Frogs love slugs, spiders and flies, they swallow whole so snails are off their menu as they can't digest them.

I need more slugs so if anyone wants to post some to me, I would be most grateful.
The 200 or so tadpoles we have are getting use of their legs and will be after meat to eat soon & I don't think our garden has enough for them.