Slug traps are good until you forget about them and think what's that horrible smell. Or you don't forget, just procrastinate until it's too bad to go near it so you procrastinate a bit more. Then you put it in the garden waste bin, a week before the collection, and behave like "I have no idea what's that smell" with neighbours.
Cheaper even than Aldi's - stir some sugar and yeast into a jar of warm water, leave it to ferment for a few days. Works just as well on the slugs, IME.
Whether you feed them expensive hostas or cheap lettuce they are going to get bigger and fatter and need to eat more so try lobbing them in the road so they can be run over, the slug pub, the wildlife friendly pellets, the copper tape, the grit.........
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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For some reason I h ave had no snails this year. None of my Strawberries are being munched. I've been putting it down to the extremely dry weather we've had but maybe letting a colony of field mice live in my shed is helping too.
I'm sorry to say that your plan is flawed in two ways: first, slugs and snails eat a variety of plants at different times so they will not just decamp and settle on your hostas or lettuce. Secondly, the more you feed them, the more they will breed and eventually, will spread out even further and eat even more. You have a simple choice - remove them or put up with them.
Don't know about slugs but all the snails in the Chris Packham Back Garden programme returned to their original sites after being removed. Very depressing news for those in favour of the flying snail method of control........
The result of their experiment was incredible. Snails which had been transferred from Cornwall to somewhere near London for the experiment, were nearly all heading towards the West when the experiment finished. It would take them a while to get back though
Hopefully they weren't so determined to get home they ignored all the tasty food along the way!
Slug traps are good until you forget about them and think what's that horrible smell. Or you don't forget, just procrastinate until it's too bad to go near it so you procrastinate a bit more. Then you put it in the garden waste bin, a week before the collection, and behave like "I have no idea what's that smell" with neighbours.
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