Freezing slugs

[annieb]

I have a terrible problem with keel slugs on my vegetable garden. This weekend its supposed to be getting warmer ha ha! so I'm going to lay down thick black polythene to encourage the slugs up and then I will pick them all up and feed to my chickens. I'm unable to put the chickens on the veggie plot.
Can anyone tell me the best time to water the ground with nematodes? Do I do it after sowing carrots and planting potatoes?

[Two_Sheds]

Can anyone tell me the best time to water the ground with nematodes?

Soil temperatures of 5-20C are required (not air temp); control is most effective from spring to early autumn Royal Horticultural Society - Gardening Advice: Slugs

[allotmentlady]

they won't all die, but a lot will ...... it's worth going out and turning over any rocks or stones too, so the hiding ones freeze

thanks for the reminder, just been out doing that, my little girl said to me but mummy wont they just go underneath the upturned stone? found lots of eggs........

[miffy]

Slugs and snails are a pain they eat so much on a lottie. However i have thrushes and hedgepigs, frogs and toads in the garden now after years of devloping piles of logs for the froggies and toads etc to winter in obviously not the thrush! and now they are not so much of a problem as they are just part of the food chain and get scoffed by the other critters.
I thought the same as wayne when i read the opening thread, i thought you were devolping some new sort of part food, frozen slug on a stick, oh could you imagine slug lollies!

[Bren In Pots]

A family of slugs have come out of the cold to live in our kitchen We've tried beer traps and even took the plinths off the units to put some slug pellets underneath, but there's still trails on the floor in the mornings.
Any other ideas how to get rid of them?

[muckman]

They love grapfriut it dont kill em but brings em out into the open ready for the big squish.

[allotmentlady]

A family of slugs have come out of the cold to live in our kitchen We've tried beer traps and even took the plinths off the units to put some slug pellets underneath, but there's still trails on the floor in the mornings.
Any other ideas how to get rid of them?

i was horrified the other morning when i saw a trail, leading to my dishwasher and a baby slug trying to escape, so i helped it on its way to the bird table

[Two_Sheds]

A family of slugs have come out of the cold to live in our kitchen We've tried beer traps and even took the plinths off the units to put some slug pellets underneath, but there's still trails on the floor in the mornings.
Any other ideas how to get rid of them?

Older, damp houses quite often have a slug problem ... I've had them, my Mum has them ... pellets don't seem to work, and we can never find where the critters are hiding up; just lots of trails in the morning.
(NB. you don't really want to be putting pellets anywhere that a child or a pet could find them)

[Bren In Pots]

I sneaked into the kitchen last night with a torch last night and caught one still more trails this morning tho.

Two sheds those pellets are well under the units and we've screwed the plinths back on so its safe, and by the looks of it even the slugs can't get to them.

[Two_Sheds]

I sneaked into the kitchen last night with a torch last night and caught one still more trails this morning tho.

Good one!
Perhaps an upturned grapefruit shell in their area will trap a few more?

[allotmentlady]

why dont you try a slug trap? filled with cheap beer

[HayleyB]

Hell would have to freeze over to kill all slugs

Actually I don't seem to be having a slug problem lately. I took all the nets off my cabbages as the slugs were doing my head in and the birdies are doing a fabulous job supplementing their nuts and seeds with slug protein, they've done a great job of keeping them away from my peas and broadies as well, luckily we seem to have a few hundred birdies in residence at the moment