Slug collars

[Maggiethecat]

Has anyone successfully used these types of things? have become quite desperate!

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I haven't used those but have had success with the self adhesive copper tape you stick round the top of pots.

This is for an allotment so keen to stop the little buggers devouring everything we’ve planted 😡

I didn’t have much luck with these unfortunately, however wool pellets and nematodes do seem to have helped. You have my sympathy, it’s been an awful year for slugs.

See my recent post down the page about using dead pampas grass leaves.

They didn't work on my hostas.

I've made sort of similar collars from various plastic recycling (bottles with ends cut off, grape tubs with big hole in bottom etc) and they've helped a bit, possibly more just to slow them down a bit though rather than stop them but that's enough for me as I do nightly slug gathering perhaps not so useful for an allotment.. free though so perhaps worth a try.. the bottles have been good protection for beans, peas and melons.

Don’t have pampas grass unfortunately 😔

At home I’ve used a washing up liquid bottle to protect my cosmos. Also used double sided tape, external side dipped in salt, to encircle the pot and so far all good!

I've had to go back to slug pellets. I feel awful but I've had slugs make their way through wooden gaps in a 2 foot high raised bed with a sealed pvc cover over the top! Everything. They get into everything! I found a slug on my car window and a snail on my car roof! So they'll put the effort in, no matter how many tricks & obstacles there are.
Haven't tried Nematodes yet but have tried EVERYTHING else. Every form of copper - every. Thing.

I've put at bit of Weetabix near the seedlings I don't want to loose and the slugs really go for that. I then pick them off in the evening and dump them in a wild area near my house, but I've only a small garden. The weetabix was an idea I saw on internet

Surely that will just get soggy when it rains and then go mouldy?

I didn't realise they ate tomato plants but one of mine has been badly eaten. I've cut a plastic bottle up to put round it and it is showing signs of regrowth.

They've still eaten three basil plants though. Bastards!!

Nematodes and blue pellets of doom are the only thing that works in my experience.

Bespoke copper slug rings are probably going to be more effective than plastic. For a budget option for individual plants try copper pan scourers. £12 for 20 from Amazon.

I haven't used any sprays etc in the rest of my garden for years( years ago was always spraying my roses against this, that and the other) but have never been able to give up using slug pellets on hostas and lettuces which I grow in pots. Other things they devoured I just don't grow any more eg delphiniums, ligularia, marigolds, clematis. On clay soil which doesn't help.
I have hedgehogs and thrushes in the garden but they don't make a bit of difference to the slug and snail population. I've tried copper tape, WD40, eggshells etc on the pots but they still eat them, the only successful thing is a few of the blue pellets.

I was going to suggest copper pan scourers too - they work pretty well.

I grow a lot from seed so I invested in some copper slug rings - proper really sturdy copper. They work brilliantly. You do need to make sure there aren't 'bridges' to your plants though, one leaf even close and the slug will get across. The slug rings need a good wash every year, they get covered in dirt and don't work so well.

Oh and I use nematodes - just a couple of applications in spring when I'm going to be planting out. I have a very damp garden on clay soil, so my slug population is pretty significant and before I discovered slug rings and nematodes I couldn't really grow anything they liked to eat.

The blue pellets are really bad for wildlife, they kill birds and hedgehogs that eat the poisoned slugs.

Pellets of doom were all sold out of my local Homebase - store attendant said they flew off the shelves!

I was going to suggest this! You can snip them into rings as well so one will do 4ish plants, or you can cut them lengthwise and tie them around anything bigger

It has but they still seem to like it and find them occasionally eating it, but I've got barely any slugs now (I don't think I had huge number as our little garden was only gravel and a few weeds until a few months ago). Felt slightly mad putting weetabix out based on internet 'research', but had lost pretty much all the first seedlings had had ever tried to grow. All the ones that were left have survived since the Weetabix!

I have got rid of 100’s of the bastards using beer pots. It must be a happy way to go 😄