Organic slug destruction?

[Katymac]

For my veggies??

TIA
KMc

Beer traps
Nematodes (only really super-effective in raised beds or containers though)
Jam traps
Scissors
Gritty things around plants - they dont like sliding over grit. - eggshells, gravel, cocoa husks, sand etc
Coffee! Water the ground with coffee. They HATE it and 'run' away.
Salt

Try chucking them over your neighbours fence?

I'm going to do the coffee thing just to see the little buggers flee...

ha!

Scissors !!!!!!! lol.

Now I'm intrigued. I can only think of one way that scissors would get rid of slugs and that's just too disgusting to contemplate! Is there another use??

encourage frogs / toads, i do and only have snails now.

go out with bucket in evening, collect and take them quite a long way away. (mine go to pond for ducks)

is your veg in pots? copper tape.

this is useful too

You can get organic slugs now?

I drowned several slugs in a pot but didn't get round to disposing of them. Then on Sunday after her birthday party DD managed to fall into the pot of decomposing slugs and cover her party dress, then go to my SIL for comfort so they both stank. I was a bit though.

What are you supposed to do with the dead bodies, is my question?

I've bought some organic slug pellets that seem to work; I'll get the name when I go to the allotment.
Any ideas on stopping cabbage root fly (other than collars?)

Earthymama, if you plant the carrot seeds later in the season - after end of May, the first carrot root fly has already been and you are more likely not to get the first early attack.

dont thin! The smell of the leaves is what attracts them, and the more you touch, the more scent is released. Some people plant parsley rows next to carrot at the strong smell can mask the carrot foliage smell.

It's a raised bed - I like the idea of nematodes - can I buy them from garden centres? or B&Q?

salt

Katymac, you can order them via WigglyWigglers or other mail order independants - dont go giving your money to the big chains

I tried eggshells but it actually seemed to attract the slugs. I read a tip on hear somewhere about using copper coins instead of tape and that seemed to work quite well.

Have just been looking at a self-suffiency website where they suggest slug milkshake!!!!!! Basically you collect the slugs from your beer/applejuice traps and shove them in the blender. Then paint the goo onto your pots, bed walls etc and this is meant to deter other slugs. Yuk!

Copper, slugs hate copper, so a wise old gardener told me once.

OMG scissors and slug milkshakes! Think I'm going to puke.

Personally, I find moss round plants seems to work. Couldn't face a cup of slugs floating about in beer - yeuch.

Slug puree won't work - quite the reverse, in fact. If you kill a slug or snail in the evening, then go back an hour or so later, their friends and relations are all gathered round them. Weeping into their hankies, delivering eulogies and singing 'Abide With Me'? No, they are eating the deceased.

Organic methods here on the Merlot estate include a good torch and: scissors (cut them near their heads or the rest tries to carry on regardless); boots (not wellies or trainers because they get into the grooves on the soles and are not squashed properly); old cottage cheese tubs full of salt, with lids for disposal in the bin (put slugs in and shake).

I do think The Big Foot stamping down from the sky or a snip with shears is much more humane than drowning or frizzling to a pile of green snot in salt. Slug pubs - now they are disgusting...what do you do with the resultant fermenting dead slug sludge?

Catching them and putting them somewhere else won't work....haven't you heard of homing slugs?

No, it's the Killing Fields out there at Merlot Acres.

If you haven't got copper tape for pots, a generous layer of Vaseline works. They don't like it along 'em.

But the beer traps do work so I fish mine out with a spoon before they go all sludgy and then feed them to the chickens. Interestingly they won't eat them unless they've come from the beer trap! So obviously they taste disgusting too. What possible use does a slug have on this earth eh!

If you kill a slug or snail in the evening, then go back an hour or so later, their friends and relations are all gathered round them. Weeping into their hankies, delivering eulogies and singing 'Abide With Me'? No, they are eating the deceased.

Sorry but was PMSL at that

Beer traps kill frogs too, if too shallow a lip. Make it a tall container away from ledges (anywhere frogs would get to otherwise) and frogs won't get in.