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| Procta Member Since: 03 Dec 2016 Location: Sunderland Posts: 5163  
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my gran used use cheap beer, that would attract the slugs. My mate did with a failed batch of home brew too. Might be worth looking into? Just a couple of cans of the supermarkets finest. Smart price crap etc.
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15th May 2024 6:54pm |
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| nicholas2012 Member Since: 28 Jun 2012 Location: lanarkshire Posts: 193  
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Thanks for reply always find this forum helpful wealth of experience on here, I'll do some Google searching about the using cheap beer mathods
Seen another post online about using vinegar. Need to do something about it some of them are huge and can't halve leave a snail trail  |
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15th May 2024 10:57pm |
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| Rosco Member Since: 03 Dec 2010 Location: Burntwood Posts: 1833 
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Another method I've heard of is copper tape around pots. No idea if it works though 2007 - Stornoway Grey 90 XS SW - Gone
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16th May 2024 8:54am |
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| nicholas2012 Member Since: 28 Jun 2012 Location: lanarkshire Posts: 193
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Probably a good idea are at a outbuilding close to house where we feed the cats and they would go for the cats dishes at night which we now lift each night before darkness to keep their pots clean same with dogs pots in another shed
So could thinking if I buy this copper tape off feed pots it would save me needing to lift them all the time It's mainly old stone buildings we have here and theyll stay in crevices through daytime then come out at night I'm wondering if there's a non toxic thing I could fill a knapsack sprayer with and cover walls and floors to clear them out |
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16th May 2024 9:17am |
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| nicholas2012 Member Since: 28 Jun 2012 Location: lanarkshire Posts: 193
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16th May 2024 9:39am |
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| nicholas2012 Member Since: 28 Jun 2012 Location: lanarkshire Posts: 193
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I took this photo last night (that's in what we call feeding house have barley bruiser in there so cant use anything poisonous)
Can see the sheer amount of slime residue over the wooden board one of circuit breakers is on and a slug will be others easily three times the size of that!!!  |
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16th May 2024 9:43am |
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| Cragster69 Member Since: 15 Jun 2021 Location: Scotland Posts: 193 
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A brine or very salty water solution might work as a non toxic (not to the slugs) spray to get any slugs that hiding in crevices and cracks. Craig.
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16th May 2024 9:44am |
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| Chugga90 Member Since: 07 Sep 2014 Location: Bucks Posts: 208 |
Depending upon the mortar in joints between stone and also stone type? It might cause you an additional problem with salt damage to stone or mortar if solution of salt is sprayed on there?
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16th May 2024 11:43am |
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| lohr500 Member Since: 14 Sep 2014 Location: Skipton Posts: 1316 
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Have a look on ebay or Amazon for "Beer Slug Trap".
£12 or £13 for 12 of them. We've used them a lot in the garden and they work really well |
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16th May 2024 5:16pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20335
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Nematode natural control
https://www.gardening-naturally.com/slug-nematodes (Somewhere else, might have some stock). Possibly worth looking at. Other than that a disposable glove, pick them up, put them in a pot or box and then relocate them somewhere else well away from where you want them. Bearing in mind, a few more weeks and more will arrive on a permanent basis.  $W33T $0U7H3RN $UG4R |
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16th May 2024 5:36pm |
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| Puma_MOG Member Since: 08 Sep 2017 Location: Cheshire Posts: 184 
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Was about to recommend what Custom90 just did. I've used this company as it comes in a proper cooled packaging. Amazon also sells it but I never got the sense that the product was kept refrigerated prior to being shipped out.
https://www.nematodesdirect.co.uk/12-leath...-nematodes I've had this issue quite bad a few years ago where my back lawn was almost destroyed as they eat the grass roots as well. Using the product linked has helped greatly. Last year I was then hit with snails in an epic way where it a complete potted plant was eaten in a single evening. I resorted to using beer in a bowl near my pots which attracted not only the snails but also slugs. |
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16th May 2024 8:21pm |
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| Zimblewinder Member Since: 12 Jan 2019 Location: Geelong Posts: 39  
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Beer cups.
Only problem with this is, given they know how to find my place, and their love of beer, I'm probably knocking off my reincarnated relatives. |
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16th May 2024 10:25pm |
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| AMBxx Member Since: 24 Jul 2016 Location: York Posts: 1031 
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Our runner ducks used to do a good job eating slugs. Only have khaki campbells now, they don't seem so interested.
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18th May 2024 3:32pm |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20335
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They probably aren’t quite hungry enough.
Hedgehogs have them as well, so long as they can get around there and don’t get squished on the road.  $W33T $0U7H3RN $UG4R |
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18th May 2024 4:10pm |
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