Sink a few bowls or plates in the ground level with the surface. Fill the bowls/plates with (cheap) beer. The yeast attracts the slugs. They drink their fill and drown. Not their sorrows
Anything you can make it uncomfortable for the slugs/snails to crawl on will deter them. A combination of solutions from everyone here should take care of them.
Broken nutshells work in the same way as egg shells when getting rid of slugs. Break up the nutshells into small pieces, and create a protective barrier around your plants. Any slugs that come near your vegetables will soon turn the other way.
Crushed egg shells work as a great home remedy of slugs. This is because slugs don’t like moving across sharp objects, although it isn’t not impossible for them to do, they just prefer not to. Break up the empty egg shells into small(ish) pieces and place around the flowers, plants, vegetables, and fruits you want to keep safe from slug damage.
Ash and Cinders make a rough protective barrier, and the fine ash also acts as a desiccant that dries the slug out. Wood ash and cinders are preferable. Avoid direct contact with plants.
Grit and Gravel. The sharp rasping edges of finely crushed ‘horticultural grit’ makes an excellent slug barrier. Coarser gravel is largely ineffective, other than for decorative purposes.
Sandpaper. Cut rings of sandpaper and slip them round the stems of vulnerable plants.
Sawdust makes a good coarse barrier around tender plants, also acting as a desiccant that dries the slug out. Hardwood sawdust is most effective, and some people recommend cedar or oak.
Copper Rings or Discs. Solid copper rings/discs of various diameter, used to encircle single or small groups of plants to inflict a mild electric shock on the unsuspecting slug. Look for rings that clip together. These are easy to slip round established plant stems, or join together to form a larger barrier.
Also heard that cheap dollar store copper scrabing disks for dishwashing work well. You unfurl the thing and with safety glasses and gloves on you cut them into ring first then you cut an opening so that you put around stem of plant it does the same mild shock. I would think that this and beer should really help you out. Also you can save lids of plastic containers to fill with the beer if you don't want to dig holes and then have to empty out when it rains plus you have to check it everyday anyway and I don't know about you but I'm not digging into a plastic glass dug into ground to pick out dead slugs. Yuck. Would much rather use something I can just clean out into a plastic bag and add more beer and replace. When you do put beer out do it at dusk because they come out at night. I have picked them up and they don't gross me out when alive just when dead. Although alive none of us wanted to kill them. I found them in the day when first planting hostas,have no idea what they were living off of because that area had been cleared out for over a year,anyway had no clue as to what they were. I really hate killing things but I love my hostas more. Beer gives them a happy way to die.
My hostas are all looking like swiss cheese from slugs. It's happened the last 2 years. I googled for a solution and found a product called Sluggo. I just used it yesterday so I am not sure if it works, but the reviews I read were good. Although damage is already done. Hopefully next year my hostas will be better.
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Sink a few bowls or plates in the ground level with the surface. Fill the bowls/plates with (cheap) beer. The yeast attracts the slugs. They drink their fill and drown. Not their sorrows
Anything you can make it uncomfortable for the slugs/snails to crawl on will deter them. A combination of solutions from everyone here should take care of them.
Broken nutshells work in the same way as egg shells when getting rid of slugs. Break up the nutshells into small pieces, and create a protective barrier around your plants. Any slugs that come near your vegetables will soon turn the other way.
Crushed egg shells work as a great home remedy of slugs. This is because slugs don’t like moving across sharp objects, although it isn’t not impossible for them to do, they just prefer not to. Break up the empty egg shells into small(ish) pieces and place around the flowers, plants, vegetables, and fruits you want to keep safe from slug damage.
Ash and Cinders make a rough protective barrier, and the fine ash also acts as a desiccant that dries the slug out. Wood ash and cinders are preferable. Avoid direct contact with plants.
Grit and Gravel. The sharp rasping edges of finely crushed ‘horticultural grit’ makes an excellent slug barrier. Coarser gravel is largely ineffective, other than for decorative purposes.
Sandpaper. Cut rings of sandpaper and slip them round the stems of vulnerable plants.
Sawdust makes a good coarse barrier around tender plants, also acting as a desiccant that dries the slug out. Hardwood sawdust is most effective, and some people recommend cedar or oak.
Copper Rings or Discs. Solid copper rings/discs of various diameter, used to encircle single or small groups of plants to inflict a mild electric shock on the unsuspecting slug. Look for rings that clip together. These are easy to slip round established plant stems, or join together to form a larger barrier.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/08/five-steps-gardeners-take-control-of-slugs-natural-way
I think William pretty much said it all. I've also heard that making a ring of Epsom salts around the plants works too. And it's good for the plant.
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Also heard that cheap dollar store copper scrabing disks for dishwashing work well. You unfurl the thing and with safety glasses and gloves on you cut them into ring first then you cut an opening so that you put around stem of plant it does the same mild shock. I would think that this and beer should really help you out. Also you can save lids of plastic containers to fill with the beer if you don't want to dig holes and then have to empty out when it rains plus you have to check it everyday anyway and I don't know about you but I'm not digging into a plastic glass dug into ground to pick out dead slugs. Yuck
. Would much rather use something I can just clean out into a plastic bag and add more beer and replace. When you do put beer out do it at dusk because they come out at night. I have picked them up and they don't gross me out when alive just when dead. Although alive none of us wanted to kill them. I found them in the day when first planting hostas,have no idea what they were living off of because that area had been cleared out for over a year,anyway had no clue as to what they were. I really hate killing things but I love my hostas more. Beer gives them a happy way to die.
My hostas are all looking like swiss cheese from slugs. It's happened the last 2 years. I googled for a solution and found a product called Sluggo. I just used it yesterday so I am not sure if it works, but the reviews I read were good. Although damage is already done. Hopefully next year my hostas will be better.