My garden is covered with slugs which is the best product to buy which will reduce the amount of slugs?
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Throw a bunch of salt on them and they will shrivel up.
Don't use salt. Your soil will be no good for growing much except plants that grow near the sea.
Buy nematodes for them. They are a living parasite that ONLY attack slugs and do NOT poison birds or other animals, children or pets.
They arrivge as a live (obviously) culture and you simply put them in a watering can with water and water your garden with them.
Here is a lilnk for info and also a UK supplier.
http://www.nickys-nursery.co.uk/seeds/pa...
The treatment will last 6 weeks.
make a small trench around your garden (outside of the edging) and put some ground salt in it. As long as you can ensure the salt wont ge tto the garden soil this will work great.
I get my grandkids to pick them up, penny each.
cheaper than slug pellets. then down the loo.
The best way...to get rid of slugs..is to finance their re-election campaigns..so they go on the road...and eventually live in Washington, D.C.
Leave a couple of dishes of beer around the garden. Slugs love it. They climb in, get drunk and then drown. At least they die happy!!
You can buy slug pellets from the garden centre. Sprinkle them over the garden and the slugs eat them then...Die.
I use ordinary table salt myself, it's cheaper and does the same job.
Obviously salt isn't a good idea if you want any plants to grow in your garden!
You can get a white powder from garden centres, B&Q etc that is supposed be be environmentally-friendly (non-poisonous) and kills the slugs by drying up their slime - but it easily gets washed away by the rain.
Did get given a beer trap as a present (?!) but never fancies using it (a) thought it might attract more slugs and (b) didn't fancy clearing it up afterwards (yuck!)
In the end we just tried planting stuff that the slugs didn't like - they don't seem to like geraniums for some reason and ours always flourish - but they loved our marigolds (had to keep them in pots and put a thick ring of slug powder around the base - even then some of the little bleeders got in!!
Don't use slug pellets - they can cause poisoning in other animals and birds. I've used two methods:
Buy a beer slug trap
Negotiate a "wage" with the kids and put them out hunting slugs when they are "bored - I haven't got anything to do". The going rate (quite a few years ago) was 10 for a penny. They were bagged up and chucked in the bin - the kids collected, literally (used in its correct form) 100's of snails and slugs, usually on the weekend from quite a small garden.
The numbers decreased exponentially (because they weren't breeding). No problems these days - I cast a torch round the garden at night and throw out any visiting snails, etc.
Slugs and snails love beer so "serve it" under the plant, in shallow dishes (like the covers for take away drinks or old play soup plates)... no risk for children (maybe some fun taking a look at the drunk guys!) or your plants or your budget! Check them regularly as in every couple of days It will in some time (2months) keep them at bay as going to "the bar" will make it difficcult to reproduce, so be faithful and keep those beers comin´!
Slug pellets,Sprinkle freely and watch them run out of slime.
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