how many ways can anyone rid the garden of the slugs

[RosieMcPosie]

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

yeuch! i've never heard this before! thanks for the info Star!

[RosieMcPosie]

[caroline7758]

I read a letter in this month's RHS magazine, where a chap quoted from a hundred year old book suggesting strewing  cabbage leaves around to attract the slugs. Lift the leaves up in the morning and collect up the slugs and destroy. He reckoned it works a treat. (SAame as the black plastic suggested above, really)

[bupster]

Only thing I've found so far is to use plastic bottles with the bottoms cut off as cloches. They work a treat, but I never have enough and eventually you have to take them off and let your plants fend for themselves...

[Robert_Brenchley]

I tried that one year, and the slugs ate the plants the moment I took them off. I still haven't really solved that one.

[PurpleHeather]

1 Coffee grinds
2 crushed egg shells
3 copper wire
4 beer
5 bran
6 frogs
7 hedgehogs
8 chickens
9 toads
10 lime
11 salt
12 yeast
13 atom bombs

[Slug_killer]

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13 atom bombs

Can I get one at Wilkos ? ???

[PurpleHeather]

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13 atom bombs

Can I get one at Wilkos ? ???

Yeh, they have a buy one get one free at the moment.