If you have a large tray or two, you could try the method I mentioned earlier @InTheMoorlands. Fill with water and put a couple of your pots in there, raised up on bricks or similar. It works quite well - as long as there are no slugs already in the compost. I've had to do it with dahlias too, but I found a large slug on one pot yesterday. It still works well though - some of them were getting totally annihilated. Once they're bigger and sturdier, they manage better. It's the same with the lettuce. When they're hefty enough they do better. I have a potting tray [it's a plastic dog bed!] and I have that for pots of lettuce just now. It's big enough to give a decent distance that the slugs don't attempt.
I even have one of the dahlias and a small lettuce pot raised up in the pond shallows.
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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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Fill with water and put a couple of your pots in there, raised up on bricks or similar. It works quite well - as long as there are no slugs already in the compost. I've had to do it with dahlias too, but I found a large slug on one pot yesterday. It still works well though - some of them were getting totally annihilated. Once they're bigger and sturdier, they manage better.
It's the same with the lettuce. When they're hefty enough they do better.
I have a potting tray [it's a plastic dog bed!] and I have that for pots of lettuce just now. It's big enough to give a decent distance that the slugs don't attempt.
I even have one of the dahlias and a small lettuce pot raised up in the pond shallows.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...