Help needed with slugs and snails

MissAdventure

This is a simple, short tip for helping to get rid of snails and slugs
Less than a minute long.
I watch this guy a lot

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I tried this last night and it worked! Several slugs on the plank but lots more on the surface of the soil under the plank . I collected them up and gave them to my hens

Slugs follow other slugs trails . These can be destroyed with vinegar although I'm not sure what that would do to seedlings. A couple of crushed garlic cloves steeped in warm water then used in a spray bottle does help to get rid of white and black fly but not sure about slugs tbh. Strong smelling plants like geraniums or tomatoes planted close-by might help . Marigold can be used as a sacrificial crop and when gorged on those they may leave beans alone. My slugs have eaten three sunflowers , beans and four poppy seedlings . Little bas***s

I have such a phobia of slugs and snails, particularly slugs. Even writing the name is causing me to shudder. I went into my kitchen and saw a slug crawling across the outside of the window! It's warm and sunny- why would it torment me like that? Needless to say, I closed the blind and retreated to the living room.

I pick both slugs and snails up and discard them like others in the green bin they collect under flowerpots that have a lip to them, so run your hands round there and you ll find quite a few ‘hiding’ I collect morning and evening and I reckon they have a good old feast in my green bin before they are collected and ??? Not sure where the green stuff goes does it get ground down for manure if so they have a ball before they are crunched up
I don’t have any bad feeling towards them but they eat my new leaves down to the ground and I m not having that

I'm glad it worked for you, eddiecat78

I have heard thar if you put them in your compost heap/bin they are perfectly happy to stay there and help to break down the compost, so I have tried it.

Oh I really can't stand them.
Horrible, horrible looking things.
They give me the heebie jeebies.

There’s some big old slugs this morning it’s green bin day today so I ve done my usual ‘pick up and dump’ nice and early
Slugs are really not very attractive are they I was looking at a big old thing sitting in my hand this morning and thinking you really aren’t pretty
Are slugs just a snail without a house and if so why haven’t they I must look it up and find out more about them They re very benign they don’t put up a fight or anything do they

put down a dish of beer near to where they are active - never fails - and they die happy!

The slugs in my compost bin work alongside the worms to create the most wonderful compost. So I leave them to it and only destroy them once they dare to destroy my precious seedlings. Poor old slugs!
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The worms are brambling worms not fat earthworms which have completely disappeared from my garden. Eaten by flat worms?

We have used Vaseline at the bottom of pots before but not this year. The runner beans have been chewed away even though they are in the greenhouse and not on the floor. Annoyingly the sum and substance hostas have also been attacked. They are standing on large gravel and had new compost this year. It is relentless. Must look for the Vaseline.

My daughter had one that goodness knows how used to get in via the sealed kitchen door! It would come in every night eat the cats biscuits n off out again! She never saw it and no matter how late she stayed up ,she could never catch the blighter, all it left was its silvery trail.

I’m losing so many plants to slugs and snails, probably because the weather has been so wet. I’ve tried Grazers and am now using a garlic spray recipe given to me by a commercial hosta grower. The difficulty with these sprays is that any rain washes them off the plants and has to be re-applied.
I have used Strulch in the past which did work well, but my local garden centres have stopped stocking it.
I’ve tried eggshells, nut husks, copper bands, wool fibre, none of which worked.
Today I’ll respray with garlic solution once the rain’s gone and will try surrounding my vulnerable plants with Slug Stop barrier pellets. If that fails, I’ll order Strulch online. I’m so tired of looking at hosta leaves which resemble lace curtains.

Know gardening is supposed to be good for one's mental health but I just spend time killing things.
Even the first thing I do is bury what I killed yesterday.
Oh well!

Coffee grounds can work to deter slugs/snails - if the grounds are spread on the soil around vulnerable plants. (Some cafés will give away grounds for free, or you may be able to save your own, or ask friends & family for theirs.) Worth a try?

I've tried coffee grounds, but no luck.
I wonder if slugs very, depending on the area you live?

A dish of beer close to where the slugs are active, and they die happy! Works every time for me.

I ve been putting them in the green bin but now found out that they just crawl to the inside lid and sit there smiling and thumbing their nosy at me after the bin is emptied so that’s pointless I thought I was doing them a favour !!!!
Now it’s back to killing them, something I hate doing I picked loads off this morning big old sluggy beasts without houses and rather sweeter housed snails I want to learn to love them but I don’t and I cant and can only consider killing them which I really don’t like doing
HEEEELP

We haven't lost any runner/French beans so far. I surround each plant with a couple of towels full of horticultural grit which ensures no leaves touch the ground. Then I proved beer swimming pools along the length of the sticks. I find that works ok.

Now heres a question I have two hungry seagulls visit me and today I put a load of slugs in a tub and put it out I saw the sea gulls come down but had to go to make a phone call when I went back there was no seagulls but there were no slugs either Do you think I ve found my answer Collect them and feed them to the gulls ? Or am I kidding myself ?

Just googled it and answered my own question
Yes Sea gulls do eat slugs and snails so that’s my answer I m going to collect them and feed to the gulls each day

I’ve solved disposal here. There is a footpath beyond our garden fence with a river beyond that, trees line the riverbank. When I catch any of the little monsters onto a trowel they go and then are thrown as hard as I can over the fence. I listen carefully for sounds of pedestrians, so far I’ve not hit anyone - I think . Not sure if they get stuck in the trees, if so the seagulls will be pleased. I suspect they land on grass, well the stinging nettles where there was once grass before the council heard of re-wildling. I’m hopeful they don’t make it back. Totally dispiriting to look out and see yesterdays plants are todays sticks. Happy hunting everyone.

I use the secateurs method when I find them
It's quick and they don't have a long death like poisoning.
I mainly have slugs on my hostas, can't stand the little buggers.