[ex-cavator]

Chatting to a fellow plot holder today, 4 plots away from mine. I dug up my remaining spuds about a month ago - 50% of my Desiree had been eaten by slugs, and about 75% of my Maris Piper. I had assumed that I had left them in the ground too long.
Most of Dev's are still in the ground - his Desiree and Maris Piper are absolutely fine. He puts it down to the fact that there's a fair few stones & bits of rubble in his plot, whereas mine is free from stones - he reckon's slugs don't like stones. Is he right? Should I be chucking a few stones in mine? 

[LilacSandy]

Slugs love to hide under stones as they hold the moisture and keep them hidden from birds etc.,  I think he may be pulling your leg.

[DigIt]

On our allotment site, some have had problems with slugs and others not. Here, it seems to correspond with manure (slugs) or not.

For us, I think we had a relatively dry early summer for Cornwall, so no blight until later but it pushed the slugs deeper down into the soil and maybe the manure held more moisture for them?

[Topscaff]

What about putting nematodes on the plot where you are growing potatoes they are  natural and eat slugs and there eggs, I am contemplating doing this next year as I had the same problem all except for my Kestrel potatoes not affected at all as the are slug resistant, Mike.

[Meik]

Im fairly new to growing stuff, infact I dont have green fingers lol but I have a half plot which i managed to get last easter.  It was very over grown and was infested with slugs and snails.

After digging it over I used some pet / child friendly slug pellets from the pound shop and it seems to have kept them at bay, when i dug up the king edwards i put in i found perhaps 3/4 spuds that had snuffed it due to slug attacks 

[sunshineband]

If you are not totally organic you ould put a few slug pellets in when you plant the seed potatoes,and when you earth up too