Slugs! ARRRGGHH

[Doive]

Been working away from home all week, so was looking forward to seeing the progress tonight by torchlight. Found some good growth, but also found the rhubarb and various other tasty plants have been decimated by hundreds of slugs! They weren't there last week... off to the garden centre tomorrow for something effective, not having this. Spent all of last summer chasing slugs around with various forms of trap, none of which really worked. Need a pet hedgehog!

[kathyd]

Try watering with stinky garlic solution - it appears to be helping my brassicas at the moment, although it might just be a fluke so far...

[out in the cold]

Beer traps everywhere in our garden

[ancee]

So what do you all think of pellets then? we are overrun with snails mainly. We seem to have hundreds and hundreds. I can't seem to through them in the bin fast enough - not pleased

[Madasafish]

Make your own nematodes free- and garden organically and more cheaply, whilst killing slugs.

The war on slugs starts at home - Telegraph

[rustylady]

My main problem is snails. Horrible sneaky climbing bu@@ers. I drop as many as I can find into a bucket of salty water.

I do use slug pellets, sparingly.

[Florence Fennel]

I've amassed egg shells to try this time, as well as nematodes (I understand it takes a week for the nematodes to start working and lasts for only 6 weeks) but how small do I crush them? Is it the sharp bits that they don't like to cross? Touch wood my young brassica plants are ok at the moment - they've just eaten a couple of sunflowers so far and the slimy ones I've found so far have been small and in some cases tiny, snails.

[tdm86]

I use a garlic spray & also put cheap ground coffee on top of soil helps :-)

[binley100]

I've tried eggshells and coffee grounds to no avail , I'm hoping the frog army does the biz for me this year .......failing that I might try bran.

[Florence Fennel]

I tried bran last year Bins. It was ok until it got wet

[Bren In Pots]

Came down stairs this morning to slug trails in the kitchen

[sternyboy]

The war on slugs starts at home - Telegraph

Yummy, slug soup! Lol