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1 day I was looking at my 3 beautiful planters of bedding flowers and the next they were half eaten.
The day after that and they have all been eaten.
Now I'm left with 3 big (not to beautiful) planters full of stems.
No leaves, no flowers just stems.
I bought some slug repellent (apparently slugs have delicate feet and they don't like this) and plant food. The repellant turns to mulch which feeds the soil. Probably way to late ro save them (not a leaf left)
How do you protect your plants from slugs?
My slugs must be enormous as they've eaten enough but do you think I can find them....( I don't want to kill them just dave my plants)  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm not entirely sure if this would work but applying some logic to a solution, would wrapping a few rows of double sided tape around your pots and smearing the outside sticky part with lots of salt keep the blighters from climbing up your pots? |
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By *adyBugsWoman
over a year ago
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"1 day I was looking at my 3 beautiful planters of bedding flowers and the next they were half eaten.
The day after that and they have all been eaten.
Now I'm left with 3 big (not to beautiful) planters full of stems.
No leaves, no flowers just stems.
I bought some slug repellent (apparently slugs have delicate feet and they don't like this) and plant food. The repellant turns to mulch which feeds the soil. Probably way to late ro save them (not a leaf left)
How do you protect your plants from slugs?
My slugs must be enormous as they've eaten enough but do you think I can find them....( I don't want to kill them just dave my plants) "
Copper rings or tape. They don’t like copper. |
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"I'm not entirely sure if this would work but applying some logic to a solution, would wrapping a few rows of double sided tape around your pots and smearing the outside sticky part with lots of salt keep the blighters from climbing up your pots?"
It's worth a go |
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"1 day I was looking at my 3 beautiful planters of bedding flowers and the next they were half eaten.
The day after that and they have all been eaten.
Now I'm left with 3 big (not to beautiful) planters full of stems.
No leaves, no flowers just stems.
I bought some slug repellent (apparently slugs have delicate feet and they don't like this) and plant food. The repellant turns to mulch which feeds the soil. Probably way to late ro save them (not a leaf left)
How do you protect your plants from slugs?
My slugs must be enormous as they've eaten enough but do you think I can find them....( I don't want to kill them just dave my plants)
Copper rings or tape. They don’t like copper. "
That's the 2nd vote for copper  |
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There used to be a website, I think called 'defenders' who sell nemotodes who like to eat slugs..
They're a natural predator, comes in a plastic tray and you mix it in a watering can and sprinkle onto the soil in spring..
It boosts the numbers of them already present.. |
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We all forget the rules of nature, hedgehogs eat slugs, we poison slugs that get eaten and kill hedgehogs, we build fences with concrete bases, hedgehogs have to leave gardens and get run over.
Choose and do something about it.
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"We all forget the rules of nature, hedgehogs eat slugs, we poison slugs that get eaten and kill hedgehogs, we build fences with concrete bases, hedgehogs have to leave gardens and get run over.
Choose and do something about it.
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This is 1 of the reasons why I have tried a bio friend alternative.
I do try to me mindful of bio divans the impact of it. |
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By *itty9899Man
over a year ago
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One easy and inexpensive way to get rid of slugs is a beer trap. Create one by burying half a container near vulnerable plants and half filling it with beer. Alternatively, look out for purpose-made beer traps. The scent of the beer will lure slugs, which then fall in and get stuck. Keep the rim of the container 2-3cm above the ground to avoid catching slug-eating ground beetles.
Or spray some WD40 on the outside of plant pots to make the slippery. |
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"I'm not entirely sure if this would work but applying some logic to a solution, would wrapping a few rows of double sided tape around your pots and smearing the outside sticky part with lots of salt keep the blighters from climbing up your pots?"
Yes , smear the pots with something slippy like olive oil or some type of grease or WD40 it would be to slippy for them to climb up the pot. |
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"I got some copper washingup scouring pads ...if you cut them in strips you can tie them round the stems  "
Tried that, didn't work. I spray them with garlic solution now. It seems to be working. Also watering my tubs which had an ant colony with garlic water worked. |
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"I'm not entirely sure if this would work but applying some logic to a solution, would wrapping a few rows of double sided tape around your pots and smearing the outside sticky part with lots of salt keep the blighters from climbing up your pots?
Yes , smear the pots with something slippy like olive oil or some type of grease or WD40 it would be to slippy for them to climb up the pot."
Vaseline, they can't cope with the petrol in it (petroleum jelly). |
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I use copper barriers, which they won't cross, due to electrical deterrent, due to their wetness. It's manufctured as adhesive tape, which you can stick onto most planters. Ones I've not taped, have had them move in and eaten
It means the leaves must not touch anything that slugs could crawl from.
I've used Iron based slug pellets, which stops slugs digesting, which have been very helpful. They work after rain, when slugs and snails are prolific.
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We use nematodes if you search for nemaslug you’ll find them.
We also do a ‘slug patrol’ before we go to bed where we go out with plastic gloves and a bag and pick up all the slugs we can find, seal the bag and bin it. This helps reduce numbers and break the cycle. |
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Nematodes are microspopic animals and 1 species attacks slugs, leading to their death. I've not used them for a couple of years but the results were good.
You mix them into a watering can and water them around. They hunt them down locally. Probably about £20 ish and can be ordered online, like Nemaslug. |
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"We use nematodes if you search for nemaslug you’ll find them.
We also do a ‘slug patrol’ before we go to bed where we go out with plastic gloves and a bag and pick up all the slugs we can find, seal the bag and bin it. This helps reduce numbers and break the cycle. "
Snap! |
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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago
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I'm going to be controversial.
Salt works.
Previous house, I'd occasionally come down in the morning and find trails all over the carpet. While barefoot  .
Trail of table salt across the floor on the edge of the carpet. Sorted.
Current house, garden has about a million snails in it, and a shit ton of bind. They can eat as much of that as they like.
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not all slugs are bad some are very good for the garden and dont touch live plants at all ....
best way for slug control is to encourage birds and other wildlife into your garden like hedgehogs |
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anotrher way is the mint garlic chilli with a little soap or veg oil home made spray that keeps a lot of critters away but only spray if you really have to as it also keeps the bees away and thays the last thing anyone wants ...our garden is a haven for bumbles bees ...love watching them 100s on a dry day |
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I hate it when these little fuckers pretend to be homeless snails. I left some (uninhabited) snail shells in one corner of the garden, some loose change in the other and a cup of of beer in another corner. Guess where they all ended up...
Anyway, forget copper tape. It doesn't work unless you wind it in a spiral and connect each end to opposite polarities of an electrical source. I found that placing lamb's wool pellets on top of the compost around the plant was the best defence - the buggers avoided it like it was Covid.
Natural predators don't seem to control them. I live between a reservoir and a fishing pond and despite frogs being a common sight they don't appear to control slug numbers even though they are - apparently - their favourite food! |
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A trick my grandad used was, bury some butter tubs in the garden so the top is at soil level, then fill it a quarter full of beer, the beer will attract the slugs and they will fall in, then all you had to do is go around emptying the tubs in the morning.
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"Frogs like slugs, get a pond"
I can tell you this is true. We had a pond and lots of toads. We had zero problems with slugs. We then filled it in because of kids and then it took a few years for the slugs to move in.  |
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By *essiCouple
over a year ago
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"There used to be a website, I think called 'defenders' who sell nemotodes who like to eat slugs..
They're a natural predator, comes in a plastic tray and you mix it in a watering can and sprinkle onto the soil in spring..
It boosts the numbers of them already present.."
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"Egg shells? "
Yep.
Dry 'em out by keeping them in a food waste bag, throw used coffee grinds in there too.
Mix it up, sprinkle around the area you want to protect.
Job done, the slugs will bugger off down the street |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"1 day I was looking at my 3 beautiful planters of bedding flowers and the next they were half eaten.
The day after that and they have all been eaten.
Now I'm left with 3 big (not to beautiful) planters full of stems.
No leaves, no flowers just stems.
I bought some slug repellent (apparently slugs have delicate feet and they don't like this) and plant food. The repellant turns to mulch which feeds the soil. Probably way to late ro save them (not a leaf left)
How do you protect your plants from slugs?
My slugs must be enormous as they've eaten enough but do you think I can find them....( I don't want to kill them just dave my plants) "
Salt cheap one will do round the pots they hate salt it drys them out kills them  |
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I think wrapping the edges in foil to make it slippery might work (or at least it has for someone I know). Also saw a random video on certain herbs that might deter them like rosemary or lavender due to their strong scent etc |
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"All the comments about causing suffering to a living thing. Not great is it
The animal world will always have predictors. Frogs gotta eat too.  "
Have no problem with animals surviving on the food chain,slugs have got to eat to. There has been some useful suggestions without causing harm or suffering. |
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I find the best method is to leave some inverted plant pot bases or saucers near vulnerable plants, then water well. The slugs will hide underneath in the daytime and you just have to collect them and dispose as you see fit |
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"All the comments about causing suffering to a living thing. Not great is it
The animal world will always have predictors. Frogs gotta eat too.
Have no problem with animals surviving on the food chain,slugs have got to eat to. There has been some useful suggestions without causing harm or suffering."
I try egg shells around the soil too. I never used pellets or anything like that. Deterring and nature is a much more sustainable option anyway. Nature normally always has the answer.
Choosing plant that slugs hate is a way to go too. |
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