slug deterrent

[pacharan]

My grandmother used to eat her breakfast grapefruit and then put the empty skins dome up among her prize plants, both veg and flowers.

I have no idea what the fascination of grapefruit for slugs is though.

That's an interesting one. I start my day with a grapefruit so not short of grapefruit peel.

Just wondering if it would attract rats - you're not supposed to put any citrus on a compost heap as it attracts rats.

Maybe the rats ate her slugs after they polished off the fruit peel?

[Paddy]

This wet weather has brought out the slegs and snails in their hordes and I fear for me sweet peas and other bedding plants I've recently put in.

Now, I don't like using nasty chemically aka because I don't want to hurt the birdies but I really am struggling to find a decent alternative.

Half the problem is that the green methods are labour intensive and I'm away Mon-Fri.

For example, I've used that barrier gel around pits and planters but it needs to be re-applied after rainbow.

Ditto crushed eggshells - they sorely ok but I'd need to eat 5 dozen a week to maintain a decent supply.

Beer ok but needs to be topped up a.d not even sure it works that well - if anything it just entices more of them into the garden.

Some things I've had recommended don't work at all - copper wire for instance.

Anyone got any other good methods?

Take the GPS location of the slugs and send it with a note to the US Embassy saying there’re Taliban

[BrilloPad]

My grandmother used to eat her breakfast grapefruit and then put the empty skins dome up among her prize plants, both veg and flowers.

I have no idea what the fascination of grapefruit for slugs is though.

Maybe they have kidney issues? My ex-wife has to avoid grapefruit. And St Johns Wort.

[Scrag Meister]

My grandmother used to eat her breakfast grapefruit and then put the empty skins dome up among her prize plants, both veg and flowers.

I have no idea what the fascination of grapefruit for slugs is though.

[BrilloPad]

Mrs BP says the best slug deterrent is a kick in the nads.

[Old Greg]

Get MF to move in with you. They don't like competition.

[Doggy Styles]

Following on from my earlier post, it was actually THE Kenneth Robinson, who also narrated that splendid series The Shadoks And The Gibis back in the 1970s.

PS I just did a 'Google' on Ken and slug pellets, to see if it was on youtube, and top of the Google results was my post above. That was quick. How does that work?

[pacharan]

Raised beds with gravel around them. Little tikes hate a bit of gravel.

If you want to help the birds, get after them with scissors, the slugs that is.

I was also led to believe that a bit of a charge through the copper wire kept them away.

We have raised beds with gravel and don't have issues, apart from when we get supplies of spoil which have the bloody eggs in them....

I've got dry stone walls - the perfect habitat for snails.

In fact, in this part of the world, they were colloquially know as wall fruit owing to their habitat and the fact that they were regarded as a delicacy.

[Old Hack]

Raised beds with gravel around them. Little tikes hate a bit of gravel.

If you want to help the birds, get after them with scissors, the slugs that is.

I was also led to believe that a bit of a charge through the copper wire kept them away.

We have raised beds with gravel and don't have issues, apart from when we get supplies of spoil which have the bloody eggs in them....

[Doggy Styles]

I remember a technique I saw on TV many years ago, demonstrated by a chap called Kenneth Robinson. He'd line up slug pellets along his forearm and finger-flick them at the slugs. You could hear their little yelps of pain when he hit his target, which was often enough to prove to me it worked.

Another method is to keep hedgehogs. They are partial to a slug.

[pacharan]

This wet weather has brought out the slegs and snails in their hordes and I fear for me sweet peas and other bedding plants I've recently put in.

Now, I don't like using nasty chemically aka because I don't want to hurt the birdies but I really am struggling to find a decent alternative.

Half the problem is that the green methods are labour intensive and I'm away Mon-Fri.

For example, I've used that barrier gel around pits and planters but it needs to be re-applied after rainbow.

Ditto crushed eggshells - they sorely ok but I'd need to eat 5 dozen a week to maintain a decent supply.

Beer ok but needs to be topped up a.d not even sure it works that well - if anything it just entices more of them into the garden.

Some things I've had recommended don't work at all - copper wire for instance.

Anyone got any other good methods?