[sclarke624]

I wonder what would happen if you stick some salt on a double sided tape and pot it around pots that had ya veg in.  Like a copper band.

[peapod]

i painted a snail with tippex for an experiment,i carried it to the other side of our plots (about 300 yards away) and in 3 weeks time i found it again on my plot 

I am  at that!

[strangerachael]

When we moved to our house 10 years ago I collected a whole bucketfull of slugs and snails in a couple of days  I had filled the bucket with soapy water to put them in, and not knowing what to do with the contents I left it in a corner while I thought about it. I will always remember the smell when my small son found the bucket and tipped the contents out     
Not sure where I am going with this, just wanted to share that memory 
But the good news is that after years of clearing away hiding places, getting the garden under control, numbers are declining, and I make a point of not using slug pellets, except inside the greenhouse. We have a thrush living nearby, I think that helps. 

[violet61]

Well thats another bag of the little b**gers 

[Debbie D]

Thanks for all the tips, will definitely have a tidy up of pots and stuff to see if I can find where the little blighters hang out.  The tip about spraying the salt water solution around cold frame sounds well worth a try.  The trouble is I have a real phobia of slugs and snails so there is no way I could go round collecting them,  urgggghhh the thought of it makes me shudder.  I can just about drop a rock on a snail from a great height but thats as close as I can get.  Do crushed egg shells round plants work with snails (we have chickens so have plenty of those). 

[barney rubble]

Haven't tried egg shells, but somebody once recommended mussel shells....not sure if it was down to possible sea salt content in them, but didn't appear to work when I tried it

[Beejay]

Killing snails and slugs. Disgusting 

What about there rights. They have the right to eat your veggies.

But not mine or anybody I know or even anybody who is reading this 

Bl***y snails

Bring back the Thrush they will sort them out

[Beejay]

Save them in a sealed container, feed them on one of your lettuces for a couple of weeks then cook with garlic butter and eat, once word gets around they'll not be so brazen about being found red-footed (snails don't have hands) in your cold frame.

Carolyn xx

What's the recipe?

[Patricia]

I have been battling slugs and snails in my veggies for years now. I found this information from another forum to help keep slugs off your veggies with out using slug pellets. This is their suggestion....Slugs hate garlic. Two garlic bulbs chopped up and boiled in two pints of water. The mixture is cooled, strained and then made back up to two pints. A desert spoon is then added to a full watering can and susceptible plants watered in the evening.

I water mine in the morning as wet over night the slugs like that. And I am using a good glug of garlic water in my 5 litre watering can. I also Took the strained mixture and boiled more water with it. So got more garlic water from to use. And so far touch wood it seems to be working. The slugs and snails have left my newly planted squash and my seedlings alone. And my pea sprouts too.

One side effect though is your garden will smell all nice and garlicy and you won't be getting any vampires either.

[strangerachael]

The trouble is I have a real phobia of slugs and snails so there is no way I could go round collecting them,  urgggghhh the thought of it makes me shudder.   

Do you have/know any children you could pay/bribe to collect them for you? Many children seem to quite like handling them. 

[violet61]

The garlic one sounds good, might try that I ve got garlic planted about the garden & they dont bother that, just everything else   I ve just bought some copper tape, so off to make some plastic collars with tape round ready for tonight, will report back in a day or 2! Let battle begin!!

[DavidT]

Water everything with Slugclear.

[sean moore]

pva glue and salt , thats what i will be trying
regards
sean

[violet61]

Copper tape, brilliant, NOT!!   just been out & theres even more of the little blighters on me broadbeans Next stop, garlic liquid!

[blackbob]

fun job for slugs,3ft cane with a darning needle taped to the end.get ya torch and go and do a bit of spear hunting.you can get loads on the needle before you need scrape them off.dont bin them leave lying on the ground Kermit will have a feast lol.