Slug pellets

[watervole]

It's a personal decision as to whether you use slug pellets or not. 

I don't, but that's my choice and I won't expect you all to follow it.

However, if you do use them, don't make the mistake that the new guy on the allotment just did.

Do NOT use too many.

Use them at the recommended rate - as they are LESS effective if you use too many.  (if the smell/taste is too strong, the slugs don't eat them)

See here for more information on slug pellets and the best time to apply them.  Remember the risk to pets and wildlife.

If your young runner beans are getting eaten, try this trick. Take a plastic drink bottle and cut off the top and bottom to leave yourself with a clear plastic collar about six inches high.  Place this around the seedling and push at least an inch down into the soil. Sometimes, this is enough to deter the little blighters all on its own, but if it isn't, drop ONE slug pellet inside.

Comments

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Beer is good. Anything fermented is good. I'm told it's the yeast that they actually like.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

For the benefit of comment readers, put the beer in a jam jar and sink the jam jar into the ground until it's only an inch above the surface. the slugs come in and drown.

Replace contents every couple of days.

Don't sink the jar too deep or creatures that you actually want in your garden will fall in and drown also.

[artw.livejournal.com]

(nwhyte's "we" ;-))
I just use little plastic tubs - yoghurt pots etc- and don't even sink them into the ground much, just enough to keep them stable. I have to throw them out before U comes home from school... For a while I haven't bothered (not growing veggies) but I am trying to get some more herbs established so I put a couple of pots out last night when it was wet. I caught about fifty, maybe more. And no cute beetles. But I have no false hopes: slugs are like willowherb and dandelions and the Terminator.