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How can you make these slug barriers

http://www.guardianecostore.co.uk/guard ... Group=1064

out of stuff I have lying around

and... would they work?

Any thoughts

suppose the idea is the slug can't hang on upside down or turn the corner. Not sure it would work with my slugs, they seem to get everywhere!

can't think how to make it - will think about it.

My grandad had me believing that pepper on a stone killed slugs. The idea was the slug would sniff the pepper, sneeze and then knock his own brains out on the stone! Sounded perfectly believable to a six year old!

I kill slugs by looking for them in the dark and when i find one i cut it in half with scissors really gruesome but it keeps the population down.

When I was everso new to gardening I gathered up loads of slugs, wrapped them up chip-shop fashion and put them in the kitchen bin. (I know, I know, seemed like a good idea and all that) During the night they all escaped and in the morning we were greeted by slugs hanging from the walll cupboards, the windows - everywhere! Makes me shudder to recall it.

Ann, try this:

Plastic 2 litre water bottle.
Top and tail it.
Cut about an inch slit on either side, and bend the inch band over to create the lip?

Might work.

And - could somebody please tell the slugs how to read the calendar? Picked up the water bucket for the goats the other night (dark, so I couldn't see what I was doing), and grabbed a slug. In early February! They are supposed to be freezing to death out there just now!!!

do eggshells really work? I know from experience that planting garlic works, but shells? or do the slugs just slime over the shells and eat the veg and fruit anyway?!

i have been told that wood ash makes good barrier put round young plants also doubles up as a fertalisier but needs renewing as soon as it rains

mrsflibble wrote:do eggshells really work? I know from experience that planting garlic works, but shells? or do the slugs just slime over the shells and eat the veg and fruit anyway?!

Eggshells never seemed that effective to me. Maybe I should have ground them up finer (I used to just crush them so that I had mainly small flakes rather than tiny grains of shell).

Wulf

I do not claim to have the perfect solution but this is what I do.

I plant a small patch of slug favs and leave unguarded with a nice home (upturned plant pot or plank) next to it.
I sprinkle garlic granules around the rest of my crops.

Slugs and snails take the easiest option to their favourite food. They will cross garlic but prefer to tackle the unguarded ones first. And so every morning I just lift the plank or pot, gather up the slumbering gastropods and kill them all!!!

It really works, honestly.

Another thing I have found is if you lay a sheet of plastic down on an area of lawn, cover with water, and wait for dusk or dawn, all the slugs in your neighbourhood will come round for a pool party. Once again you can gather them up and kill them!

No point relocating them or throwing them in the neighbours garden, they come back.

Plastic bottles laid on their side so the open top is level with the soil with beer in the bottom half inch. I have not managed to do it yet as I have difficulty getting to the garden with the beer, but my neighbor swears by it

I don't know if I can kill them.... would collecting then taking down the road to the park work?!

awwww look at the eyes!!!!



snails i can kill. slugs i just can't. I used to be able to. I'm a wuss.