Sow some soft, leafy lettuce as sacrificial plants and use beer traps, coffee grinds, sharp sand etc as barriers and traps. I used to use rhubarb leaves - cut stems for the kitchen but place the leaves flat on the round. Next morning, lots of slugs sheltering and thus easy to remove.
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Nematodes and lambs wool pellets as a mulch work wonders here, last seasons drought (March-July) made it a particularly good year. Also, make sure to attract lots of blackbirds with ground feeding, they love the slugs.
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I have tried French Marigolds as a sacrificial plant but I think it attracted them they just used them as the starter then on to the lettuce for mains
Sow some soft, leafy lettuce as sacrificial plants and use beer traps, coffee grinds, sharp sand etc as barriers and traps. I used to use rhubarb leaves - cut stems for the kitchen but place the leaves flat on the round. Next morning, lots of slugs sheltering and thus easy to remove.
I often find slugs lurking under plants they don't eat. It makes sense not to eat your shelter I suppose
I have heard a claim that if you plant using copper based trowel slugs leave them alone! No idea if or how it works though.
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Nematodes and lambs wool pellets as a mulch work wonders here, last seasons drought (March-July) made it a particularly good year. Also, make sure to attract lots of blackbirds with ground feeding, they love the slugs.