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Can you reduce/minimise the number of slugs
Glenjjones
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I seem to have a lot of slugs in my garden beds. I realise that we can never completely eradicate them, nor would I want to (we are all creatures making our way through teh world, after all), but does anyone have any advice on how I could reduce their number so i had less of a problem?
the soil is currently quite heavy, so I'm thinking adding grit sand and compost to lighten the soil might hep to discourage them slightly. any other tips or ideas?
the soil is currently quite heavy, so I'm thinking adding grit sand and compost to lighten the soil might hep to discourage them slightly. any other tips or ideas?
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Dig a pond, encourage frogs, toads and hedgehogs.
Feed the birds. they'll rummage for them too.
I try not to grow stuff they like to eat. 😉
I pick them off my alleged slug proof plants in spring and summer, and throw them over next door. No I don't really, I put them where there's bits of leftover bird seed, they seem to be happy there so I get fewer in the plants.
You could maybe set aside a little patch and put bedding plants in that slugs prefer - cheap ones you can replace regularly if necessary, pick any slugs you find and put them in the slug pantry?
The other thing you could do is leave 'shelters' out - bits of wood, plant pot saucers, anything like that, the slugs will use them as a bedroom, collect them up in the morning and 'rehome' the slugs.