Topic: Slugs - Help!!!

[Digeroo]

My Dwarf Beans are disappearing.  Well when I say dwarf I means non climbing because I am growing a real monster.  However, seems the slugs like it.  So after trying various solutions finally put a ring of pellets around the beans. 

Well I have never seen so many slugs in my life.  There were 37 huge ones and countless small ones.  No wonder the beans were disappearing. 

Don't like using pellets has anyone got any better solutions?   Used the organic ones but they do not seem to work, certainly no sign of dead slugs. 

Tried beer last year ended up with an inebriated hedgehog.  Yoghurt quite good but I hate dealing with all the slugs.

[flossy]

  Go hunting , dusk and dawn, pick 'em up flush them down the loo   :o

  and you will soon see your garden a lot less ' slugged ',    ;D

  floss xxx

[Digeroo]

I had never thought of flushing them down the loo.   Don't they block the drains.

[Suzanne]

Hi - with the organic ones you don't see the dead slugs because they crawl away to die after eating the pellet. I specifically don't like the metaldehyde or methicarb pellets as the slugs die - often glued to a pellet and the birds eat them together with the pesticide.

[johnny]

what i do is give the affected area a good soaking in the evening with the hose & any surronding shrubs/fences where they may be hiding and go out at 12:30 at night with a torch and very slowly scan the ground to see if you can see any fresh trails, after i have collected as many as i can find i get and old pot which has a good lip on it and leave it near the plants, the next morning i go out early and remove the pot, there is always at least one hiding in the lip, its just a case of catching them little by little until you've got enough of them to allow your plants to grow faster than being eaten!! no the slugs wont block your loo (unless you are in greece!) put all snails and slugs straight into the compost bin if it has a tight lid they will speed up the composting!!!

[chriscross1966]

I watered a big pack of Nemasys onto my site this spring and the other traps and the pellets I put down around my lettuce and Oca only got a few snails. It's a tratment that consists of a parasite (biological control), in this case a nematode worm......

[saddad]

Which reminds me, I was going to order some more yesterday...  :-[

[1066]

I've taken to stabbing them ! Not pretty tho! The other thing is to collect them, bag them up and put them out with your household rubbish

[macmac]

My OH goes out with a pair of scissors he keeps by the back door :-\
I won't elaborate....

[manicscousers]

we feed them to the chooks , that's not pretty either ;D

[Old bird]

Me too Manics

only problem is that my older two chooks can't manage the HUGE slugs - and the new lot just don't seem interested!!!!  I have dug worms for them and they just don't bother with them -  chickens that don't like worms :o :o

Old Bird ;D

[manicscousers]

good grief, old bird. :o...maybe they don't recognise them yet..ours play tug o war with the biggies  ;D

[macmac]

Me too Manics

only problem is that my older two chooks can't manage the HUGE slugs - and the new lot just don't seem interested!!!!  I have dug worms for them and they just don't bother with them -  chickens that don't like worms :o :o

Old Bird ;D

Do you want to borrow my OHs scissors? ;D ;D ;D

[GRACELAND]

Theres Loads of the Huge Slugs about at the Mo

I chuck um over Next Door !  ;D

Joking

[tim]

It's fine for the giant overground ones - it's the little black b****s that are ruining our Potatoes that I  hate.

[Hector]

how effective are nematodes?