Summer of slime

Well, this is definitely the year of the mollusc - they are eating nearly everything on my plot. Each time I go up I remove around a dozen or so from my dwarf apple tree - they sit there slowly chomping their way though the apples. And today I spotted that they had got into the tops of the sweetcorn cobs and eaten the tassels - not sure if the cobs will be able to ripen now.
I've got an empty raised bed that I was hoping to grow some late lettuce/salad crops in - but nothing has appeared yet, and I suspect that the slugs/snails have been cleared the seedlings out. I did try using a spray from the garden centre that is meant to discourage them from eating your plants, but I'm not sure it really works. I'm surrounded on 3 sides by overgrown plots, so there are too many hiding places for them.
To be fair though - last year there was very little slug damage due to it being so hot and dry - you win some, you lose some, I suppose!

I regret not applying nematodes in the spring. They weren't needed in 2020 but 2021 after April has strongly diverged from that spectacular spring.