What is a slug's favourite food?

[BigShot]

No joke here, I'm afraid... feel free to post your own punchlines though.

I'm thinking sacrificial/decoy planting.
Is there one food (veg, herb, flower etc) that slugs will slither past everything else to get to?

I'd love to bung in a few things to let the slimy ones gorge themselves on so I don't need to lose sleep over my fast vanishig salads, herbs, seedlings and fruit... if there is such a wonder-plant.

Even a proper "crop" like basil or something would do. Whatever they favour, I'll grow in abundance, eating whatever survives the slugs myself.

[Nicos]

Leaving rhubarb leaves on the ground once you've removed the stem- and they'll go and hide underneath them.....then feed them to your chooks!

[rana]

They love slug pellets. If it must be a sacrifice plant, I've seen a tray of young french marigold plants all decapitated in a single night, though I'm not sure feeding slugs is a good idea.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Leaving rhubarb leaves on the ground once you've removed the stem- and they'll go and hide underneath them.....then feed them to your chooks!

Wanna lend me some chooks? Just out of info, prince Charles has ducks wandering about in the gardens of his house "Birkhall" up on Deeside. he also has a wonderful collection of hostas with not a slug mark on them. Mind, the hostas are mulched with a thick layer of composted bark so that may be the secret.

Hostas must rank among the fav food of slugs.

[Dane End Dolly]

anything in my allotment seems to be the slugs favourite grrrrrr

[Two_Sheds]

I'm not sure feeding slugs is a good idea.

I'm with you on that. The more you feed, the more they breed - same with rats, pigeons and seagulls

[peterjf23]

buy cheap beers from supermarket place in shallow dish , the slugs go for the yeast , get drunk and drownd , what a way to go , yippee yippee

[KiwiGardener]

Comfry is a good deterant for slugs take half a dozen leaves and lay around the base of your plant - do the same with the others and they will eat the comfry before the eat anything else - tried and tested with great results - alternatively you could lay down oats which causes them to swell and they die.

[KiwiGardener]

Use Comfry about 5-6 leaves around your produce works for us or use oats which cause the slugs/snails to swell and die.