Organic slug destruction?

[Katymac]

For my veggies??

TIA
KMc

what about slug problem in a house?!!!

i know this sounds utterly vile but...

we have a very old cottage , it has no foundations and basically just 'sits' on the earth (this used to somewhat bother me when i discovered this but its been standing for 300 odd yrs so i reckon it should be quite solid ). we have floorboards downstairs without carpet and the little buggers come up through the cracks (which are sooooo tiny) in the night. i dread coming downstirs in the night for a wee as guarantee i will squelch my bare tootsies through at least 5 of the revolting things.
so, any suggestions?

anyone?
or are you all too horrifeied by my particular problem/

Heavy doses of salt in the floorboards?

I am paralised with horror at this thread, and will NOT be coming back

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"They don't like it along 'em."

Oh merlot, that made me larf!

india, fgs woman!

Can't you get floorboards sealed or something?

I hate slugs with a passion, but couldn't BRING myself to cut them with scissors. Yuck. I tried the beer thing, but it didn't work(and wasted beer).

I use a couple of slates and give them the decapitation treatment... And yes they do carry on going if you don't do it near the head.

SOB the little gits have eaten my carefully nutured courgettes i am gutted!!
Bought a huge box of organic slug killer it just looks like gravel, it must be posh anti slug gravel or I paid 5 pounds for fish tank gravel in a posh box! So far it has worked. Are 1p and 2p actually copper? would this work?

Pamplemousse if you live in Lancashire I have LOADS of spare courgette plants. I could let you have a few.

Thats lovely of you to offer I am by the sea in Sussex so a long way away
Thanks anyway

That could be quite decorative, Pamplemousse, all your pots with pretty coins glued round them.

You've got to think like a slug/snail and be strategic.

Last winter I discovered snail hibernation spots, at the bottom of the garden wall behind ivy. I got over 120 snails in one fell swoop. They were all clustered togehter like a bunch of grapes...or maybe haemmoroids(sp?). Smashing them was very satisfying.

this tells you all about them. Knowledge is power!

Hermaphrodite. They fertilise each other through slits in their necks. Prolific breeders! I knew it!!!

clustered togehter like a bunch of grapes...or maybe haemmoroids(sp?).
YUK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a problem as my allotment used to be a grass / slug heaven patch and my allotment neighbours have neglected their patches and they are 3 foot of couch grass/ slug snail hide aways. I swear they see me approaching and rush of and hide, little buggers.
I will never forget how satisfying it was one night me and my dad went snail hunting by torchlight we found a trug full (to non-Sussex trugless types this is a lot!) and then wondered what to do with them, while we were wondering we were standing by the main road....... what a satisfying crunch!!!!!!!! Sorry if there are any snail rights activists out there...

....and this tells you about slugs.

Hate hate hate ...kill kill kill...[ wild-eyed fanatical gastropod killer emoticon]

'In certain cases humans have contracted parasite-induced meningitis from eating raw slugs' WHAT?!?!?!?!?!
Vile!
There is an ad in my local paper its been running for weeks 'Wanted hedgehog for eating all my slugs' Brilliant, I want a hedgehog too. I'll train him to suck snails out their shells too!

It's my walls, Pamplemousse. We live in a Victorian house with a high stone wall all round. Snail heaven. And then, of course, I have slugs because of my laid-back gardening style. Overplanting to avoid weeding and I do very little tidying in the autumn. A slug holiday camp.

Just found this it made me chuckle:

Copper coins: Rubbish. The slugs just walk over them.
Eggshell: Useless. The slugs just stride straight past.
Small traps filled with cheap beer. Semi-effective. But although they catch a lot of slugs there are still more slugs that they didn?t catch. I also now have a lot of Tesco value 2% lager hanging around the place. It tastes like bad shandy. Any takers?
Slug pellets. These were the ones that are harmless to animals and pets. I think they may be harmless to slugs too. One snail did get caught.
Stamping on them. Effective if you can devote your life to watching your plants on a 24 hour-a-day basis.

The latest plan is to put the few surviving plants on a plastic table. The top of the legs of the table have been coated in WD40 household oil, thereby meaning that any slugs who climb up get to a certain level and then fall to their deaths from a great height. I shall report back. Any slugs who want these plants are going to have to resort to James Bond-like antics. Which they probably will.

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We've got at least two hedgehogs. They live at the back of the compost heap and drive the dog daft. He is always out rootling about and annoying them. (Me shouting: MerlotDog! stop persecuting the hedgehogs! but he ignores me. Nothing comes between him and his wildlife, )tho' they are surprisingly assertive and hiss at him.

They're not eating fast enough, though.

Hmm does overplanting encourage them then cos I do this too to avoid weeding (although having been on holiday for a week it is hard to tell the grass from the onions)...?
Can't you persuade your dog to round the slugs up? Ok getting a little silly now, off to bed for me

Merlot my dog has become obsessed with hedgehogs too. Its horrendous. For the last week when we let him out for his night time wee he's been banking like mad. But a couple of nights ago DH caught him with a hedgehog in his mouth!!!!!! Don't know who was more traumatised DH or the hedgehog. He dragged me away from ER to resucitate the poor thing. Actually it was just curled up in a ball. After half an hour it crawled away but last night exactly the same thing happened. Poor thing. How on earth can he pick them up? Don't they have spikes for a reason? Terrified to let him out tonight. How can I teach him to leave them alone? I NEED hedgegogs! Is it possible to train a dog to catch slugs instead?

"Banking like Mad" Ooops. That sounds disgusting. I meant Barking!

My slugs love eggshells. I think they actually eat them.

My slugs perfected the art of balancing on the edge of a beer trap and getting royally pissed.