Lovely weather for slug-watch

[nailslikeknives]

Having taken the great advice of mnetters and planted 5 hydrangeas, I have been on slug watch ever since. Daily, I remove about 20!! Where on earth do they all come from??
These hydrangeas must be the most pampered plants on the planet and they are looking good, so all in all, a good choice.

On slug watch today, I also solved the mystery of wtf ate all the flowers on my bulbs - I found about 30 huge ones in that small patch alone!

Anyone used beer traps? I'm considering it - can't use pellets as ds2 will eat them.

Beer traps are very effective,pop into your local & collect there dregs,only negative is emptying the stinky stuff.

Where do you empty the traps?

I used to empty mine into my compost bins,or dig them straight into veggie beds,if you can't get free dregs from the pub,then get the cheapest beer from the S/market,they don't need Stella

I've bought some copper tape today. Hoping that helps.

Oooh, digging them in is ok? That would work for me as I don't have a compost bin (bad rat problem, plus we get weekly collections of all compostable stuff anyway).

Right, cheapo lager goes on the shopping list.

Copper tape seems to be working on my herbs so far. It looks nice too.

I cannot face emptying my cider traps yet. I know there are some slugs that seem to like extra strong scrumpy. And they're all dead! Yuk.

It's yeast that attracts the slugs apparently so a bit of yeast, sugar and warm water should bait the traps just as well. We have loads on the snowdrops that are dying back. I pick them off with a peg and feed them to my pet ducks who love them.

Nematodes would be your best bet. You'll not see another slug on treated areas for a least a month, but you do need to continue treating at timely intervals.