[m1ckz]

this year i had a bad time with slugs , a n old boy (lol) im 70   listen to me ha ha,anyway he said   get a bag of sharp sand an put it round the plants     they wont travel over it    wonder if it works

[AndyRVTR]

Morning M1ckz, slugs dont really like going over anything course, I remember my old Dad putting the ashes/clinker from our coal fire around the edges of his beds. Some folk swear by putting eggs shells around plants too... not sure how effective they all are though... I use pellets myself (sparingly) which seems to keep the numbers down..  

[m1ckz]

i used loads of pellets this year too,,,lil beggers ignored them lol,i ger them from poundland   but they cleared there shelves earl for Christmas things  lol   thanx m8

[DD.]

Putting down too many slug pellets renders them ineffective. Pure metaldehyde actually repels slugs.

The instructions on mine say one pellet every six inches.

[m1ckz]

omg well DD i put handfulls down   ha ha   guess thats why,should i read instructions ill go spare this year   thanx m8y

[sunshineband]

Some of our slugs seem immune to coarse stuff, but dislike soot.

Trouble is, I dislike soot too, so resort to hand icking by torch light and blue pellets of death esp in the mini tunnel at the plot

[seedman]

Hi half of my back garden is gravel half grass on the the stones we have potted plants the stones beggers still get to them has any one seen flying slugs, i think for every one you kill these 10 more waitting in the grass 

[Growster...]

It really has to be pellets here, if there are no veg in the way, (like leeks I just chuck a handfull in the air, and they come down at roughly the right spacing. We haven't bought any for a year or so, and they do need to be spaced out (not on recreational chemicals you understand...;0)

[Goosegirl]

Hi half of my back garden is gravel half grass on the the stones we have potted plants the stones beggers still get to them has any one seen flying slugs, i think for every one you kill these 10 more waitting in the grass 

... or flying snails - they get in my hanging baskets..

[mumofstig]

It's tiny snails that have ruined my greenhouse salads this year, despite having slug pellets down 

They'd obviously rather eat salad, and who can blame them *sigh*