I've long since given up on any slug deterrent, organic, copper, eggshells, beer, orange rind ... two things worked. one, if one doesn't mind an untidy-looking bed, is putting all the discarded leaves from salads and cabbages round the plants: easy food for slugs and snails which then leave the rest alone.
I've long since given up on any slug deterrent, organic, copper, eggshells, beer, orange rind ... two things worked. one, if one doesn't mind an untidy-looking bed, is putting all the discarded leaves from salads and cabbages round the plants: easy food for slugs and snails which then leave the rest alone.
The other is starvation: I'm now only growing plants which slugs and snails don't eat. It works, but it does take quite a few years ...
Yes, ick comes with the territory. So I use clippers on the slugs, and then get rid of the gick left on the blades as I clip/prune plants. A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do...
I've long since given up on any slug deterrent, organic, copper, eggshells, beer, orange rind ... two things worked. one, if one doesn't mind an untidy-looking bed, is putting all the discarded leaves from salads and cabbages round the plants: easy food for slugs and snails which then leave the rest alone.
The other is starvation: I'm now only growing plants which slugs and snails don't eat. It works, but it does take quite a few years ...
Go out at night with scissors and a head lamp.
Oh, I did that as well, to the digest of my husband. Have you ever tried to remove slug remains from scissor blades? Gross - just gross!
Yes, ick comes with the territory. So I use clippers on the slugs, and then get rid of the gick left on the blades as I clip/prune plants. A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do...
Stick some salt on the slugs and they will die. Leave a little while and the slime dries out, and you can remove and compost.