[WG.]

Surely you must have to be on total daylight watch on all your crops

Night time watch is much better.

[Annie]

I do night time hunts but lost all my carrots when we went away for a weekend!This year it will be frienly slug pellets under netting and night patrol.It`s the mini black underground slugs thay cause the damage here often too small to snip and so small that you can`t remove them with gloves on!Last spring was  late and wet tho` and slug problems ended here with the hot dry weather.

[milkman]

Slugs aren't interested in the majority of my crops, allowing me to focus attention on a critical selection - in particular - carrots until they are 2 inches tall, which does involve daily patrols for a couple of weeks starting 10 days from after I've sown them.  That's all.

The other vulnerable crops - runner beans, french beans, lettuce, brassicas, toms, sweetcorn etc. I sow in rootrainers, keep them in a slug free environment and transplant the plants onto the plot when they are a nice sturdy size.  

That's not to say I don't lose the occasional veg to a slug - e.g my 3 spring cabbages matured far too early and were riddled with slugs.  Ho hum.  More food for the compost heap and plenty of other crops to eat instead.

[muntjac]

erm slugs under plastic............. does that qualify as a take  away for birds?. try oyster shell as a barrier .oestra £6 a sack from poultry suppliers