how many ways can anyone rid the garden of the slugs

[sims girl]

                                 

the way l find to do this even though it is not very nice is put salt on them

[sims girl]

[PJW_Letchworth]

Perhaps we should find a way of bribing hedgehogs and thrushes!  ;D

[manicscousers]

bob flowerdew suggests scissors , yeuck  ;D

[cockadoodledoo]

I collect them in a pot and feed them to my hens :)

[star]

Its horrid this one.......but if you do the Bob Flowerdew one, either scissor or stab  :-\, the other slugs eat their comrades instead of your plants.

Then the next night it might be their turn to be fodder for the others :-X

[sims girl]

any more of these ideas l will try the stabbing the slugs there are so many in my garden l need to do something about them but l would like the birds to eat them but they do not seem to like them not sure what sort of slugs l have he he he he
  ::)

[Busby]

In late October go around the allotment and lift all those things; pieces of wood, pails, stones, in fact anything that could serve as a shelter for slugs eggs, and let the eggs just lie there and die. Saves a lot of trouble later.

[kt.]

Apparently there is something to do with a thing called a beer trap.   Put some beer in a container with a lid on but leaving enough room for the slug to crawl in.   (Do not fill it to the top).  When you go back in the morning or a few days later it is full of dead slugs.

[Arumlily]

I've sprinkled coffee granules on them, and you can see immediate effect as well they simply recoiled from it.

[Baaaaaaaa]

I find a nice big wooden mallet is fun.

There's a beer trap a the end of my road, its called The Bull, catches me every time. ;)

[littlebabybird]

the children love stamping on them. yuck

[sheddie]

Get a wildlife pond with a nice few fat frogs - no more slugs! :P

[caseylee]

the beer idea works I used it last summer, but to prewarm you its all gooey and yuck int he morning, but I caught tons last year

[Eristic]

You are all wasting your time and beer. If slugs are present in the locality in any numbers they are going to eat your crops whatever you do. They are capable of traveling quite large distances in a few hours and they come equipped with an incredible ability to smell not only your nice delicate crops but also each other (or the lack of).

If it were possible to exterminate every last one from your plot today, by tomorrow there would be almost the same number present again. All the gardener can do is damage limitation. Drink the beer and you will care less about holy cabbages.

Abuse of various pesticides over a prolonged period has now reduced the natural predators almost to the point of extinction and slugs just keep on eating and breeding. To the best of my knowledge, frogs eat flies not slugs therefore have no effect on slug populations. Most gardeners want frogs but will happily bash slowworms with anything to hand and indiscriminate use of slug pellets has decimated the hedgehog population.

Beer slops on the plot simply attracts more slugs. OK you catch a few but you miss all the ones that had to go to the loo. Drink the beer.

[Slug_killer]

For the really fat juicy ones, those with the orange fringe to the foot,  I like to skewer them to the ground with  a nice pointy twiglet.

If you dont secure the twiglet into the ground firmly, they can get away !

Of course, the secateurs work well, makes them just the right size for my local robin.

[sheddie]

Hi,

Frogs defiintely eat slugs!:

http://www.uksafari.com/frogs.htm

don't think a little widlife pool would do any harm and also attracts insects etc - whcih has got to be good? ;D

[louise stella]

I've just got two chickens and this morning it was drizzly and the slugs were ambling across the lawn.....at least they were until the chickens found them!!!  They thought it was their birthday!

Louise

PS: Salt works too!!!   

PPS: drink the beer - then you won't care about the slugs - hic!

[aromatic]

 ;D ;D ;D Have a look at this website and maybe try some of the methods available.... not free but definitely organically friendly and if you choose to use the nematode system I can assure you it does work!!

www.organiccatalog.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=61_179&sort=1a&page=1


 

[saddad]

That's fairly comprehensive... I prefer the torchlight search and stomp method myself!
;D

[isbister]

Transfer slugs into bucket using chopsticks
Empty bucket down neighbourhood fox hole