A late night walk round the garden with a trowel and high sided pot! Be careful, they try to crawl out again qui kly, put a scoop of earth on each layer....like lasagna! I find slugs coming from cracks in the terrace etc and as soon as I've done one circuit of the garden there's more coming out! you will be joining us all on our moonlit dressing gown clad, torch walk of our gardens soon!
I go out at night with a torch and a pair of scissors - I cut the slugs in half - snails too. The birds usually clear up any little corpses in the morning otherwise I just sweep them into the borders. Usually when I tell people that I cut slugs in half it provokes a perfect storm of comments however it's quicker and more humane than salt or poison.
Can't bring myself to do it. I saw a small snail at the top of a clump of phlox and just thought it wouldn't eat much. Might when it's bigger though. Any slugs I come across go into the green bin.
Having tried various methods to control the Slugs in our garden including vivid blue pellets and drowning, earlier this year i too took up the moonlight walk armed with a trowel and dispensed the same treatment as MariewO. Having counted over 40 one evening i recently bought nemaslug and poured that on last night. Nothing else is going in the ground until it starts to work.
I've heard that a barrier of sharp sand is effective at keeping slugs away.
My soil is heavy anyway, so sprinkling a ring of sand around the plants is probably a good thing for the soil in any case. I'm going to try it when i get home
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A late night walk round the garden with a trowel and high sided pot! Be careful, they try to crawl out again qui kly, put a scoop of earth on each layer....like lasagna!
I find slugs coming from cracks in the terrace etc and as soon as I've done one circuit of the garden there's more coming out! 
you will be joining us all on our moonlit dressing gown clad, torch walk of our gardens soon! 
I go out at night with a torch and a pair of scissors - I cut the slugs in half - snails too. The birds usually clear up any little corpses in the morning otherwise I just sweep them into the borders. Usually when I tell people that I cut slugs in half it provokes a perfect storm of comments however it's quicker and more humane than salt or poison.
Salt is more fun though
Can't bring myself to do it
. I saw a small snail at the top of a clump of phlox and just thought it wouldn't eat much. Might when it's bigger though
. Any slugs I come across go into the green bin.
http://www.slugoff.co.uk/slug-facts/facts
It's a constant battle
Unfortunately dominoman, the bargain plants are not very sturdy which just makes them more attractive to the little b*****s.
I'm with MariewO - I chop 'em. No chance of them coming back then, and quicker and kinder than the salt water...
The snails take their chances with the traffic when I chuck them over the fence.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've heard that a barrier of sharp sand is effective at keeping slugs away.
My soil is heavy anyway, so sprinkling a ring of sand around the plants is probably a good thing for the soil in any case. I'm going to try it when i get home