[DoctorJon]

Eco slug stoppers

[sladefungus]

how does the sharp sand work?  just makes a physical barrier that slugs dont like to cross?  does it not get blown/washed away easily?

[mkhenry]

Remember if you kill all the slugs..............you may increase the number of snails. Nature will always fill in any gaps. So it may be best to control both at the same time.

[bob_fox]

I go out with my torch late at night and pick them off my young plants. I won't tell you what I do with them after!

[Lily]

I have been out at night with the torch to remove them especially when it was raining!
I did not know about the snails!
I have a lot of frogs in the garden and they like the slugs.

[Heather_S]

I use "Advance Slug Killer" pellets which are based on ferrous phosphate. They work well but because they're also a fertilizer, you're limited to how many times in a season you can apply it without over-iron-ing your plants. I use it at the allotment and it seems to work, though, on slugs and snails.
 
I use traditional slug pellets in my roof garden ever since a neighbour brought in a heap of snails/slugs carried in on their pots (gee thanks). I can safely say that slug pellets work on snails too. They're highly unlikely to be eaten by hedgehogs or frogs as neither can get up to the first floor rooftop surrounded by buildings, and the slugs/snails don't get very far once they've eaten the pellets.
Slightly annoyed as we were slug and snail free on the roof garden for many years until those potted plants next door came by and now they've moved out and I have to deal with the resulting snails. At least I can put the pellets not in the pots but around them and avoid walking on them.  :roll:

[Boothy]

I have tried using egg shells - combined with the slug pubs they are doing some serious damage to the slug and snail population but not totally eradicating the problem - think I may have to resort to more unorganic methods

[agapanthus]

Im guessing lily is of the organic ilk like myself?.

Avoid the guessing ... most of us indicate this in our signatures

So....do you use any detterent WG?

[WG.]

Beer traps.  Whey traps (I make lots of cheese).

Plus we have a very healthy wildlife (esp. bird) population ...

a pond with frogs and newts
frequent hedgehogs
shrews
very many thrushes and blackbirds
robin and several others which will eat slug eggs

Slug damage this year has been much diminished on account of the very dry conditions.

[WG.]

And lots of Cryptops hortensis which Google tells me eat slugs/snails too
I won't be killing any more of them (they do eat worms too)

[fatgit]

I bought some organic slug/snail repellant stuff, that you can place round the base of plants etc, which I did, and all over the place, but it hasn't made the slightest bit of difference, as it eventually goes mushy and washes away.
almost everything I've planted has been attacked by the snails.
I've had to go back to the standard blue pellets, which I don't want to use, but I've already lost more plants than I can count - they're eaten faster than I can germinate them.

I've also started using empty plastic pop bottles (cut off the top and bottom) as protection around seedlings, and sprinkling a few pellets around the outside, which is at least giving some plants a chance now (just need to put some netting up to stop the birds eating the raddish!)

[shaun]

your right fatgit theres only one way to stop em realy and thats slug pellets.you spend all this time and money and only to see your crops disappear,

[Aunt Sally]

There has been quite a lot of posts here about nemaslug recently.  Might be what you need for a heavy infestation. :!:

http://www.greengardener.co.uk/slug.htm

[shaun]

there no good for those big yokes,we have ones that are yellow with black spots a bit like leopards and there huge'
one thing slugs dont like for sure is manure

[Aunt Sally]

I think you've got to show me a picture of that slug Shaun  :shock: