I collect them if I see any and put them in my dalek compost bin
Rather you than me. I wouldn't want my homemade compost to beeven fuller of snail and slug eggs.
My compost bins are also home to slow-worms, which helps to keep the population down. However, if they weren't there, I dread to think what the slug community would be like. Probably the equivalent of a 50-storey tower block.
We don't get slow worms unfortunately, and material in compost bins doesn't dry out, so that doesn't help. It's how it is, and always has been here. You get used to it, or pave the garden instead and grow nothing
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I don't replace anything that gets eaten by slugs with like. It's a waste of effort and money. The exception is a few hostas that I keep in pots and inspect regularly until I get bored and let them get eaten.
I’m starting to think about planting my garden in a similar way. As we get older the garden is becoming harder to manage anyway. My current decision is to stop growing dahlias in borders. We live in theNE and it’s too risky for several reasons to leave them in the ground. So it’s lifting cleaning storing and potting up in Spring. I’ve now more than 50% of my border dahlias reduced to ribs. Other dahlias were planted in half tubs and are doing really well…yes there’s more watering to be done but that’s not tiring.
So the plan is to save tubers and in Spring pass on those I will not be tub planting to a good home.
Like Lyn I plan on restocking borders with perennials which don’t get munched by slugs/snails.
Haven’t decided what to do about the munched hostas!
You're not going to like me putting this down and maybe I'll end up regretting it but I don't have hardly any slugs, I bought a small plastic tub of pellets 4 years ago and have used about a quarter I've over 100 dahlias and around 800 bedding plants and no slugs. I have got lots of frogs, hedgehogs and birds though
I'm going to tempt fate and say I have squillions of slugs. You can't walk across the grass without treading on them but...my hostas remain virtually unscathed! Every year the same. They have a few tiny holes this year but that's the first. I posted a pic on here ages ago about something else and someone even remarked on my undamaged plants. I have many hedgehogs judging by the lil nose holes in the lawn every morning but even they don't make much impression on the numbers.
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It's how it is, and always has been here. You get used to it, or pave the garden instead and grow nothing
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have many hedgehogs judging by the lil nose holes in the lawn every morning but even they don't make much impression on the numbers.