Slugs!!

Wolfetone · May 2018

First rain in a while has brought hundreds of the critters to the surface of the garden. My wife has been complaining about her plants quickly being devoured and now I can see why.

Has anyone got a solution that nukes the bastards whilst being harmless to my dog, cat and the grass?

All suggestions considered.

77ric · May 2018

Nemaslug, nukes them (from orbit as far as the slugs are concerned). May take a couple of applications over the summer, but it will massively reduce the population of the forever hungry bastards.

https://www.marshalls-seeds.co.uk/mobile/search-results.html?fq=Nematodes+

RobDavies · May 2018

I hate them - they've started to come into our house at night, through the air bricks and up through the floor boards.
We tried slug pellets around the outside of the house, which worked on the slugs but attracted rats instead - and rats being the double hard bastards that they are, the pellets had no effect on them.

The old fashioned beer tricks seem to work quite well....

strtdv · May 2018

Salt? Diatomaceous earth?

CHRISB50 · May 2018

Salt or birds.

Pick them up on a trowel, and see how many garden fences you can fling them over?

57Deluxe · May 2018

Hedgehogs

usedtobe · May 2018

Beer traps. Tesco value bitter, or whatever it’s called, works, and is cheap!

proggy · May 2018

Create a small wild pond in a corner of the garden, introduce some newts and toads, they love feeding on slugs.

axisus · May 2018

When we moved to our house there were a million snails in the garden. I collected them in a bucket and drove them to the countryside and set them free. I'd do the same if I had a load of slugs.

MrBump · May 2018

Yeah, they come in to my house too. Eat the cats food.

If I come home late at night, I can see them crawling up the outside walls of all my neighbouring houses.

guitars4you · May 2018

axisus said:

When we moved to our house there were a million snails in the garden. I collected them in a bucket and drove them to the countryside and set them free. I'd do the same if I had a load of slugs.

thanks - they are now all in my garden - I wondered where they all came from !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Roland · May 2018

CHRISB50 said:
Pick them up on a trowel, and see how many garden fences you can fling them over?

They come back. Snails I lob over the house into the road. I don’t find any of them coming back.

Beer traps work, except they can attract slugs into your garden from further afield. Before the seeds were planted I let the chickens roam the veg patch, which got rid of a few of them.

57Deluxe · May 2018

one of the freakiest things is pulling back your upstairs bedroom curtains in the morning to see half a dozen snails limpeted to the windows! Wass that all about??

CHRISB50 · May 2018

Roland said:

CHRISB50 said:
Pick them up on a trowel, and see how many garden fences you can fling them over?

They come back. Snails I lob over the house into the road. I don’t find any of them coming back.

Beer traps work, except they can attract slugs into your garden from further afield. Before the seeds were planted I let the chickens roam the veg patch, which got rid of a few of them.

You need a moat. Or a badger patrol.

Grunfeld · May 2018

Roland said:

They come back.

Ah, homing slugs.

I read about these being used to deliver messages during the war.

proggy · May 2018

Grunfeld said:

Roland said:

They come back.

Ah, homing slugs.
I read about these being used to deliver messages during the war.

I wondered where the term 'snail-mail' came from. Thanks for that.

Teetonetal · May 2018

usedtobe said:

Beer traps. Tesco value bitter, or whatever it’s called, works, and is cheap!

Yes. We did this yesterday and got loads of the Bastards. Also putting coffee grounds mixed with eggshell around the plants works well.

David5150 · May 2018

Loads of the buggers have appeared at my place - trod on one last night barefoot which was a horrible experience for me and the slug.

Beertrap would attract the pisshead that lives next door so will have to rely on the hedgehogs to do their stuff

MattBanshee · May 2018

Coffee grounds; also nutritious for your soil so no cleaning up to do afterwards. Also, won't harm any other animals that come into contact.

revsorg · May 2018

We put a beer trap down in the garden for the first time last night and it got about fifty of the bastards. So we went to Waitrose to buy more beer this morning and figured maybe we should go to Aldi. But then in the meantime my wife found this on mumsnet:

It doesn't need to be alcohol, it's the yeast they're attracted to. Make a concoction of flour, water, sugar and yeast, works a treat:

2 cups of warm water
2 heaped spoons of flour
1 teaspoon of sugar
1/2 teaspoon of yeast

Save the booze for yourself

And she also found this: https://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Slugs-and-Snails-With-Yeast

It says traps every 6 – 8 ft as the smell won't travel further than that.

Sounds like nicely bubbling yeast mixture is the best bet.

Some people talk about getting cheap 40 pint homebrew kits and using that - £4 for the whole season.

axisus · May 2018

57Deluxe said:

one of the freakiest things is pulling back your upstairs bedroom curtains in the morning to see half a dozen snails limpeted to the windows! Wass that all about??

Be worried. They started a sudden stealth attack on your house, probably 4 hours earlier.

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