slug and snails

[bayliss]

My garden is infested with these nasty creatures they eat all my runner beans before they have time to flower I have tried egg shells as suggested by a friend also slug pellet organic Any suggestion of what else can be done

[mrs_overall]

To protect plants in tubs I use those copper strips you can buy from any garden centre.
For garden plants I use the bog standard slug pellets.
I read somewhere that the horrid critters won't cross sand so you could try that.
You could try making slug traps - sink a container into the ground so the top is level with the soil. Half fill the container with beer and hopefully they'll fall in and drown.

[moonshadow]

Someone suggested used coffee grounds on here a few weeks ago, apparently snails hate it. If you live near Starbucks they give it away for free. I use Growing Success Slug Stop, it's granules you circle the stem of the plant with. It cost �5 for 3.5 litres.Other than that if you have the stomach for it go out with a torch late in the evening when they come out and collect the horrible nasties in a bucket,what you do with them after that I leave to you.

[rachygal25]

PUT SALT ON THEM!! They will die for certain, its a terrible death for them, but they are wellll annoying, my dad does that! :L:L



Happy Killing! :):) xx

[alan30]

have used biological control from these people; one application lasted all summer and very effective.

http://www.defenders.co.uk/

[Ethel]

Plant African marigolds amongst your beans. The slugs and snails love them and will leave your beans alone - and keep the aphids away.

[bednobs]

we are trying nematodes for the first ime this year as alan suggests. Will let you know!

[Batterseadog]

Get out there at night with a torch and a container and collect them up, especially after or during rain. Remove them quite a way from home or they will return. Foxes love to eat them. Last year I went out most nights and I got rid of every single one. Got a few back this year but you just have to persevere.

[merejeans]

don't put salt on slugs if they are on the lawn, leaves a horrible black mark for ages. Also don't watch them if you put salt on them, the hardest heart would soften if you see the agonising death they die.
This year I put slug pellets round my hostas before they came up out of the ground, and so far not a single hole. Usually I forget until they have come up, too late!!