Slugs.....arrrrh!

MightyMax · Aug 28, 2016

joey&boo said:
Or encourage a little hedgehog family to visit your garden every night

:thumb:

Kim_w · Aug 28, 2016

They keep getting in my rabbits hutch at night. We keep finding them in the food bowl late evening. I put a line of salt round the hutch the other night which seemed to work .

Jayniekinns · Sep 5, 2016

I would say try tin foil, it tickles the under side of slugs and snails and they don't like crawling on it. I had a problem with slugs when I was growing pumpkins one year so all the pumpkins that grew I place onto tinfoil and I never had a problem with them eating them :thumb:

MightyMax · Sep 5, 2016

Jayniekinns said:
I would say try tin foil, it tickles the under side of slugs and snails and they don't like crawling on it. I had a problem with slugs when I was growing pumpkins one year so all the pumpkins that grew I place onto tinfoil and I never had a problem with them eating them :thumb:

Good tip, I will try that :thumb:

(Your Maisy is the cutest

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willow and squiggles · Sep 5, 2016

copper wire works or copper tape it works the same like a small shock that deters them. The had a bloody field day with my cabbages, i ended up ripping them up and growing more because butterflies had layed eggs all over them and hatched.

EyerollChamp · Sep 5, 2016

We have a few humane methods that mean no one has to die-

Copper tape, though expensive, is brilliant
Coffee grounds and broken eggshells around plants is pretty effective
Beer traps work but are so gross. At least they die happy. I ain't emptying them, though.

G-Man · Sep 7, 2016

Kim_w said:
They keep getting in my rabbits hutch at night. We keep finding them in the food bowl late evening. I put a line of salt round the hutch the other night which seemed to work .

I have this problem too, makes me fume when I occasionally find them on Hoppity or Hector's coats. I've tried everything, beer, salt, organic pellets, coffee grounds, seaweed, grapefruit, hair from dogs coat after brushing and copper wire. The copper wire does work but I'd need hundreds of feet due to rabbit hutch and run setting. They eat everything, even ate all my Rosemary last year. They climb up my door and windows at night, it's like a slug horror film in my garden. I live in a village and seems to be a problem all over.

Silly 'bunny mummy'!!! · Sep 7, 2016

I swear by good old beer traps, always catch masses of them each night : ))

Hubby doesn't approve as I use is larger!!!

MightyMax · Sep 7, 2016

G-Man said:
I have this problem too, makes me fume when I occasionally find them on Hoppity or Hector's coats. I've tried everything, beer, salt, organic pellets, coffee grounds, seaweed, grapefruit, hair from dogs coat after brushing and copper wire. The copper wire does work but I'd need hundreds of feet due to rabbit hutch and run setting. They eat everything, even ate all my Rosemary last year. They climb up my door and windows at night, it's like a slug horror film in my garden. I live in a village and seems to be a problem all over.

Oh my God I couldn't live there :shock:

They must have some jaws to munch through your rosemary.

London slugs are obviously far too namby pamby :roll:

Slugs.....arrrrh!

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