Slug problem!

[Green Gerkin]

Hi all. I have a problem with slugs starting to eat everything that im planting outside! - please can anyone suggest anything to use? - i have beers traps and have tried Grazers G2 spray.
I have cats so cant use anything thats not pet friendly. Thanks

[PyreneesPlot]

Collect and destroy - night after night. It WILL make a difference, trust me!

Oh, and welcome to the Vine

[Mumbles]

I was reading the other day that they like to hide in piles of comfrey leaves so you could maybe pile some up to make collecting the little b*ggers easier.

I've not tried this myself but I plan to


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[Green Gerkin]

Thanks Pyreneesplot, i will find my torch and get out there later. What is the best was to destoy the slugs once collected?

[KittyColdNose]

Stomp on them, quicker for them than scissors. I am vegetarian btw and though I feel squeamish and immensely guilty doing this it really is the best way of making sure they don't suffer or come back. Though if I have collected lots I relocate them over the wall to the banking out front of the house.

[Greenleaves]

I have a few old roofing slates strategically placed around my plot, each visit I lift and collect the slugs and move them to the over side of the stream on the site boundary.

[PyreneesPlot]

Salty slug pot of death, GG. Horrible. Tonight's haul was 262. I collect only from the potager and deck area where I raise seedlings. All other areas of the garden are down to the toads, hedgehogs and the rest to control.

[Bren In Pots]

I've got an old pair of scissors I use just for cutting up slugs.

[Alison]

You can try nematodes but I go for a stamping, squashing or stabbing approach. Relocation just moves the problem elsewhere and to somebody else. However best of all build a nature pond, it will attract frogs which will live the slugs for dinner. Has really helped at the plot.


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