I've just been out with a torch and gathered up about 20 in under 5 minutes. these have gone in the compost bin ...
Manually collecting slugs, after dark, is a very effective way of dealing with the problem. They are easy to spot, and you can simply pick any off.
This is the technique I use. I pop any onto the compost heap, which is where they belong. Slugs are made to help recycle dead plant material.
I don't actually go out at night. I'm an early riser, and go round the garden first thing in the morning, as soon as it's light. Any slugs will still be out, and can be collected very simply.
I love slugs and recently went searching for them with a group of children, we had great fun slug racing!, we also did some experimenting as scientist suggested slugs don't like coffee grounds)and found that the slugs appeared quite happy on the coffee grounds ( but I do tend to think they might have been less happy than we could tell, not really sure but they could have crawled off to die later! However, the slugs DID ignore the tea leaves that we surrounded them with, they wouldn't go near them at all, so maybe surrounding your plants with tea leaves might be a good idea - you never know!
Happy to report all the children are now slug lovers too - education - you can't beat it!
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Manually collecting slugs, after dark, is a very effective way of dealing with the problem. They are easy to spot, and you can simply pick any off.
This is the technique I use. I pop any onto the compost heap, which is where they belong. Slugs are made to help recycle dead plant material.
I don't actually go out at night. I'm an early riser, and go round the garden first thing in the morning, as soon as it's light. Any slugs will still be out, and can be collected very simply.
I love slugs and recently went searching for them with a group of children, we had great fun slug racing!, we also did some experimenting as scientist suggested slugs don't like coffee grounds)and found that the slugs appeared quite happy on the coffee grounds ( but I do tend to think they might have been less happy than we could tell, not really sure but they could have crawled off to die later! However, the slugs DID ignore the tea leaves that we surrounded them with, they wouldn't go near them at all, so maybe surrounding your plants with tea leaves might be a good idea - you never know!
Happy to report all the children are now slug lovers too - education - you can't beat it!
Yes! I think I'll start a be nice to slugs campaign,
Reminds me of a joke I heard recently:
Q. What did the slug say to the snail?
A. Big Issue?
Diatomaceous Earth is child and animal safe but effective against slugs and 100% natural.
Dont mess about with them.........sprinkle some sea-salt around your plants
hope this advice helps.