In wet weather I occasionally find slug trails on my ceiling. They start like in the middle of the ceiling, go on a little, then they stop in mid-ceiling again. No slug to be seen. I tell you, they can teleport.
Copper slug tape, it works an absolute treat! It's just a strip of copper with a sticky back. Think I got some from poundland or somewhere like that!
I was a bit sceptical about using it, as we have always been plagued with slugs & snails and nothing really worked Effectively. But this copper tape is wonderful! apparently copper is electrical to slugs so they keep away from it! It does actually work!
oh my god it like there saying well can you see me now, I hate slugs ,snails I chuck them in the pond but they swim... salt the best or big tennis racket just fire them off
A few nightly visits with a torch (the kids did indeed help) has helped subdue the population. Finding less and less at night now. Not confident enough to place any 'tasty' plants out yet, but will consider it soon.
Interestingly I've actually spotted a few of those 'leopard' slugs (pretty sure they are that type of slug, unless there are similar looking varieties?). I've left them alone and hopefully that population will increase whilst the others don't!
Hi everyone I'm having a slug problem and was wonderrin if there is a spray that will deter the slimy little critters they only seem o o for my courgette plants a the moment which are still young plants and now the leaves are getting munched on, I've looked a shop sprays by was wonderrin iftere is a home made solution? Thank you everyone
I won't use stuff that harms other insects, birds etc to kill slugs so here's my thoughts:
Hindsight and you could have waited and planted out bigger more robust courgette plants... but in the meantime you could protect them say by putting a cut up plastic bottle over the plant till it's bigger.
Do stuff in the garden to encourage hedgehogs, frogs, toads and birds.
If you have a real fire then the dry fire ash spread round stops them getting through and up to your plants.
Sawdust or anything else that really absorbs moisture also works. So stuff like cat litter. I'm also laying money on garden centres selling stuff similar for slugs - might be dearer though.
Salt on them kills them. You can trap them by putting a jar with some beer in so they fall in that.
You can buy nematodes that kill them too. They work well.
Nematoids early last year we moved house garden was a haven for slugs tried beer porridge loads of birds in garden organic pellets night time torch hunts but didn't seem to have much effect on numbers, I used nematocides early spring and than again in September, This year again in spring the difference is amazing very few slugs and damage this kills the slugs and eggs underground so less of a problem well worth the money and I will be a avid fan from now on to save my plants from the slimey Bs
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In wet weather I occasionally find slug trails on my ceiling. They start like in the middle of the ceiling, go on a little, then they stop in mid-ceiling again. No slug to be seen. I tell you, they can teleport.
Copper slug tape, it works an absolute treat! It's just a strip of copper with a sticky back. Think I got some from poundland or somewhere like that!
I was a bit sceptical about using it, as we have always been plagued with slugs & snails and nothing really worked Effectively. But this copper tape is wonderful! apparently copper is electrical to slugs so they keep away from it! It does actually work!
oh my god it like there saying well can you see me now, I hate slugs ,snails I chuck them in the pond but they swim... salt the best or big tennis racket just fire them off
A few nightly visits with a torch (the kids did indeed help) has helped subdue the population. Finding less and less at night now. Not confident enough to place any 'tasty' plants out yet, but will consider it soon.
Interestingly I've actually spotted a few of those 'leopard' slugs (pretty sure they are that type of slug, unless there are similar looking varieties?). I've left them alone and hopefully that population will increase whilst the others don't!
Cheers.
Hi everyone I'm having a slug problem and was wonderrin if there is a spray that will deter the slimy little critters they only seem o o for my courgette plants a the moment which are still young plants and now the leaves are getting munched on, I've looked a shop sprays by was wonderrin iftere is a home made solution? Thank you everyone
I won't use stuff that harms other insects, birds etc to kill slugs so here's my thoughts:
Hindsight and you could have waited and planted out bigger more robust courgette plants... but in the meantime you could protect them say by putting a cut up plastic bottle over the plant till it's bigger.
Do stuff in the garden to encourage hedgehogs, frogs, toads and birds.
If you have a real fire then the dry fire ash spread round stops them getting through and up to your plants.
Sawdust or anything else that really absorbs moisture also works. So stuff like cat litter. I'm also laying money on garden centres selling stuff similar for slugs - might be dearer though.
Salt on them kills them. You can trap them by putting a jar with some beer in so they fall in that.
You can buy nematodes that kill them too. They work well.
I don't want to kill them I just want to stop them eating my crop
thanks
Ideal that has given me more options thankyou
I use beer traps and am wondering if I can put the resulting sludge of beer and dead slugs into my compost heap?