I've sort of done a deal with them, I grow lots of sacrificial hostas in spots that can't be seen. Having a wildlife pond also seems helpful, attracts a lot of bigger beasts that like a bit of slug.
Actually coffee grounds do work, as does garlic spray, and copper but in each case has to be renewed the first two every time it rains! so not practical especially this July. with copper tape you need to be sure the leaves do not bridge to other plants or the ground. I go for the trowel or snipping methods if I am out after dark.
Molluscs have a nervous system, but it is different to vertebrates. My requirements for runner beans overrides any care I have for slugs and snails. I gave up chucking them over the fence, they just come back.
I just use scissors. Slugs pubs are tricky, as the area you could to put it can end up stinking of beer. Whatever you do, don't empty spent beer anywhere near your beds or you might end up with a worse problem in that place than you started with.
I find that bits of snipped slug and squashed snails are gone by morning. Some would have it that the slugs are eating them. While they're filling up on their dead relatives, they're not eating plants. I think the foxes eat them but I don't care.
I always used to put salt on them , but for the past few years now I don`t kill them ,I collect them if I see any and put them in my dalek compost bin , same with snails . Wife says everything`s got to eat and she is right .
My compost bins are always full of slugs, but that's normal here - everything is full of slugs! Other slugs will certainly eat them, but wasps etc do as well, although they tend to prefer squished snails in my experience.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Other slugs will certainly eat them, but wasps etc do as well, although they tend to prefer squished snails in my experience.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Try removing all food sources: hostas, delphiniums, lupins, beer, yeast, oatmeal, and, and ...
Garlic spray and clay pots might be the way forward.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."