all out war on slugs

beer?
salt?
copper tape?
perserveriance and a large drink

x x x

They enjoy a drop of beer and then die happy

And as I keep telling people, it is SNAILS which do the most damage. A large percentage of British slugs do not eat green plant material. they eat dead or decaying or each other!

Copper bands plenty of salt & loads of beer in cans turned on there sides slugs in get drunk cant get out :~))))

I agree completely with Owdboggy. All the problems we have are with snails. The large orange slugs actually prey on other slugs. The tiny 'keel' slugs are the worst. But slugs like all living creatures are there to clear up decaying vegetation. It's not their fault if we put enticing and delicious lettuce and other things right where they are eating.
Don't use metaldehyde slug pellets outside, as the birds take the dead slugs and accumulate the poison. That's why there are so many fewer blackbirds and thrushes nowadays! If you do use pellets, pick up the dead and dying slugs before the birds do.

Owdboggie and Bertie - come and tell that to my slugs. I have a few small snails but millions of slugs and they demolish such a wide variety of plants it's very difficult to get any past the young plant stage. I do use slug pellets - under tiles - and collect up the casualties every morning. I've just bought a reel of copper microbore to make rings round my vulnerable plants next spring.

Wagger - I find a salt patrol in the late evening has worked wonders in decreasing my slug problem this year (and it's very satisfying)
<evil laugh>

I do find the majority of damage is done by the smaller, beige colour slugs but having said that I did find that huge thing finishing off my million bells the other night. Boy can snails climb too...up walls, uphanging baskets, up everything!

Slugs....Snails...they live here in equal huge numbers....and cause carnage!! In fact, I reckon I've got the "National Collection" lol.
I've tried everything (organic and otherwise) and can honestly say NOTHING works, apart from squishing, squashing, and dropping in a bucket of bleach!!
PS. And I'm normally a mild mannered, compassionate, kindly sort of person...UNTIL IT COMES TO SLUGS & SNAILS...then my blood boils...:))

If you don't have a pond, try putting a big container of water out in the garden in mid march. Toads come to have a big orgy in the third week in march. When the tadpoles turn into toads they eat up all the slugs.

i grow my veg in raised beds, but bo not use slug pellets.if i have a problem anywhere in the garden with slugs or snails then a nightly torch inspection is a must, any slugs or snails are dispatched with a pair of secuteurs.
i have found both pests on my brassicas this year.
i also check 3 times a week for caterpillars on my cabbages.

I do torch hunt sometimes with a pot of salt water to drop them into - I know I should do it more but my arthritic hips are normally complaining too much by the time it gets dark and I wimp off.