SLUGS

elliotrichardspooner91

Whats the best way to keep slugs off your plants with out using pellets ?

Dovefromabove

It depends a lot on what the plants  are and where they’re planted. Tell us more. 

However, I have found that the application of Slug nématodes to the soil at the appropriate times of year works very well in the veg patch and in borders. 

Posy

Bucket, salty water and rubber gloves.

Fairygirl

Snippity snip with scissors for me. 
Dove's right though - what kind of plants do you need to protect? Very few of the usual things work completely, from eggshells and copper rings, to coffee grounds and everything in between. Nematodes and hunting/dispatching are the most effective.
Vigilance is the best approach, especially in early spring, when new foliage on perennials is emerging, which is very tasty for slugs. Out at night with a torch and the weapon of choice to get a head start on numbers. If you can get on top of them then , it helps enormously. 
If you have pots - a look round them during the day helps too - they hide under the rims and edges of them.

josusa47

I recommend every gardener to read "The Little Book of Slugs", which can be ordered for about £2 from the Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth.  It details numerous wildlife-friendly methods of deterring and destroying slugs, none of which is a complete solution, but different methods can be combined.  It's also an amusing read.

elliotrichardspooner91

Thanks well i had chilli and pepper plants and some chard growing in a green house mostly in plant pots and trays im a complete novice and want to have organic produce and limited space 

Buttercupdays

Vigilance is best, as said above.

Check trays and pots, look underneath and round the rims and make sure leaves aren't touching the glass or that gives them another means of access!

elliotrichardspooner91

Has anyone found anything on the market that proves useful to these little lettuce lovers

Fairygirl

The nematodes that Dove mentioned might be beneficial, although they work best in open ground, but swiping the pot rims as B'cupdays and I have said, is a very organic method.
You can try the copper tape if it's all pots you have. It's readily available online and in G.Centres etc. Putting  the pots in trays of water [raised up on blocks of course!] can also help a bit, but the distance has to be wide enough that they can't just reach across to the pot.
The foliage location is important too, as B'cupdays says, They can bungee across from plant to plant if there's a nice leaf or two to make a little bridge 

Rubytoo

Wot that Dovebird and Fairy wroted is on the market and organic I finks. Them nematods 'll doozit.

Fairygirl

Rubytoo said:

Wot that Dovebird and Fairy wroted is on the market and organic I finks. Them nematods 'll doozit.

  Wot you like? Ya daft mare!