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    Slug problem!

    Hi all. I have a problem with slugs starting to eat everything that im planting outside! - please can anyone suggest anything to use? - i have beers traps and have tried Grazers G2 spray.
    I have cats so cant use anything thats not pet friendly. Thanks
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    Collect and destroy - night after night. It WILL make a difference, trust me!

    Oh, and welcome to the Vine
    Last edited by PyreneesPlot; 21-05-2014, 06:48 PM.
    Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/

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    • #3
      I was reading the other day that they like to hide in piles of comfrey leaves so you could maybe pile some up to make collecting the little b*ggers easier.

      I've not tried this myself but I plan to


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      • #4
        Thanks Pyreneesplot, i will find my torch and get out there later. What is the best was to destoy the slugs once collected?

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        • #5
          Stomp on them, quicker for them than scissors. I am vegetarian btw and though I feel squeamish and immensely guilty doing this it really is the best way of making sure they don't suffer or come back. Though if I have collected lots I relocate them over the wall to the banking out front of the house.
          Last edited by KittyColdNose; 21-05-2014, 08:03 PM.
          When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.
          If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

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          • #6
            I have a few old roofing slates strategically placed around my plot, each visit I lift and collect the slugs and move them to the over side of the stream on the site boundary.

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            • #7
              Salty slug pot of death, GG. Horrible. Tonight's haul was 262. I collect only from the potager and deck area where I raise seedlings. All other areas of the garden are down to the toads, hedgehogs and the rest to control.
              Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/

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              • #8
                I've got an old pair of scissors I use just for cutting up slugs.
                Location....East Midlands.

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                • #9
                  You can try nematodes but I go for a stamping, squashing or stabbing approach. Relocation just moves the problem elsewhere and to somebody else. However best of all build a nature pond, it will attract frogs which will live the slugs for dinner. Has really helped at the plot.


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