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Slugs/Snails Everywhere!!!

harmonyharmony Posts: 403
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Is it just me or are you guy's seeing more slugs/snails this year?. I always thought my garden was quite free of the little critters (polite description lol)but they've even been nibbling my trailing lobelia which ive never had before 😠😠😞.

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Nope - less than usual here, but that's probably because of the number of sustained  spells of below minus 5 before and after the new year. 
    They couldn't get through the ice either.... :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Massively more by me. I put thick woodchip mulch over my whole garden last year and I was personally wondering if it made the mollusc problem infinitely worse. Waaay more snails that previously. The worms, birds, woodlice, centipedes, beetles and cats (!) seem to enjoy the woodchip, which is much more like a woodland floor than the gravel there previously, but also the snails and slugs. I guess with 'wildlife gardening' you don't get to choose the wildlife. Big healthy plants are disappearing.  My plan for the year's planting has had to change considerably.
  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237
    I have loads and they seem to be eating things that I have never had problems with in the past.
  • The Bald GardenerThe Bald Gardener Posts: 212
    I dispatched around a dozen of the blighters a fortnight ago and haven't noticed any since.

    The reason could be the common toad I've spotted sitting under my rose bush. I gave the rose a wee soak and toady wiggled his back end in and got comfy, hoping to make him a resident as I reckon he's been keeping on top of the slug/snail side of things along with the song thrush (that I've gotten addicted to Pink Lady) who visits regularly.
  • Christine-21Christine-21 Posts: 21
    Sorry, but I use slug pellets.
  • Jacqueline29Jacqueline29 Posts: 393
    I have used the copper banding, egg shells, grit, wool, to no avail but the things that work for me are beer traps and nematodes. 
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