Flippin' slugs

- had about 40 Dwarf French Beans out in pots on the patio table, sprinkled liberally with slug pellets. We get one misty night and about 20 of them have been munched through, leaving the leaves uneaten on some plants; just chomped through!

Too late to sow again. I was trying to grow them on a little bit before planting out to give them a fighting chance against slug damage. May as well have sown direct.

- what's a gardener supposed to do!

Are you sure it is slug damage, if the leaves are being left uneaten  it could be cutworm .

Slug pellets need to be sprinkled on sparsely to be effictive. I believe if you put loads round it actually encourages the slugs.

My pot neighbour told me today that slug pellet sales were up 75% this year.... I've lost loads of root seedling stuff, my brassicas are lovely though- they couldn't get inside the netting  cover and the pellets dealt with the ones that were in there to sart with!

Slugs have caused some devastation this year, about 2/3 of my runner beans, red cabbage, borecole, peppers, carrots, they have utterly destroyed a marrow plant, the list goes on.  I have spent a fortune in copper tape to protect my remaining peppers in containers.  Slugs are eating faster than anything seems to grow.