[MrsR]

I would love to hear all your thoughts and tried and tested methods of this.

[flowergirl]

my mum taught my 9 year old to chop them up with a trowel!

[mercury]

It all depends on whether you're organic, or non organic
mrsR, flowergirls method is the organic way, slug pellets are the non organic way, but are more effective  

[jane1264]

My mum goes out every night with a torch and a tub of salt - she says it gives her a great deal of satisfaction to watch them shrivel up!!  I never knew she had a nasty streak like that!!  But i suppose after spending all day being nice to difficult customers it gets rid of her pent up anger without taking it out too much on my dad!

I also heard something about a beer trap (or was that wasps?)  Seems like a waste of good beer to me!

Jane

[richyrich7]

Pellets and stamping or I feed the to the hens, if they come from the non pelleted areas of the garden.

[splodger]

i use beer traps - and they work really well - the out of date john smiths that i use seems to attract woodlice aswell - i had over 50 caught in my traps the other day and touch wood - no real slug damage thus far this season    

[Scribbler]

I've got some beer traps but the slugs seem to have gone off the Tesco Value lager which is only 2% ABV. I'm told they prefer Grolsch.

[crowndale]

I use nematodes and frogs.  The frogs is a new additional method that has been introduced during this wet weather, found him hopping about inside my strawberry cage and have absolutely zero slug damage but some damp damage.  Not sure how he got in there though!  Must have been living under the black weed fabric before the cage went up.

[sootypaws]

My neighbour on the next plot trys to be organic but she got fed up of the slugs eating her strawberrys.She cut the bottom off a flat sided plastic  bottle, put slug pellets in and next day had loads of died slugs in it. good idea? kept slug pellets dry as well.No mess,nothing to handle, just tapped the dead slugs in to bucket and disposed of them.
     

[fluffypebble]

I tried salt - it was the only thing I had when I spotted some eating my marigolds - well marigolds don't like salt either.

[frazzy]

i,m trialing the coffee  idea seems to be working only problem is it seems to have atracted a rabbit  instead.

[Little Miss Muffet]

the slugs are eating my cabbages at the moment :?

i hate them i  could never touch oine they would give me nightmares.
i used to use boiling hot water in a bucket with a little washing powder it really makes the water sizzle.

[Sadgit]

I went crazy with a bit of wood squashing the beggers today... 1st time on the site in 6 days and they have all but destroyed my squash... i never knew they liked squash... I was/am hopping mad... oh and the sunflowers have been stripped and the dwarf beans.. damn I am annoyed.. pellets galore going down tomorrow...

[Anton]

Sootypaw, I'm not quite sure what you neighbourg did with the bottome of the plastic bottle! did she use the bottom of the plastic bottle to keep the pellets in? How did she keep them dry?

[Charlie Orken]

I've not had much trouble with them but the odd ones I come across get thrown to my mates chickens on the next plot, they fight like mad for 'em