Hi from Slugworld!

I just want to vent to people who understand, lol!
My style of gardening is "as little faff as possible", so buy plants which slugs & snails won't eat.. allegedly..
I won't kill them, so I go out every night and pick multi mollusc off;
Daffodils, foxgloves, phlox, nemesia, lambs ears, geraniums (both of which were untouched last year), wallflowers, woody salvias, aubretia - all healthy and established plants. I mean, what the..??? I even put bits of food out sometimes, so I can pick up a few at a time, but no, they're happily chomping away on something furry or poisonous.
Is it just me? Do I live in an alternative reality, or do I have mutant/robot slugs and snails? 😄
My style of gardening is "as little faff as possible", so buy plants which slugs & snails won't eat.. allegedly..
I won't kill them, so I go out every night and pick multi mollusc off;
Daffodils, foxgloves, phlox, nemesia, lambs ears, geraniums (both of which were untouched last year), wallflowers, woody salvias, aubretia - all healthy and established plants. I mean, what the..??? I even put bits of food out sometimes, so I can pick up a few at a time, but no, they're happily chomping away on something furry or poisonous.
Is it just me? Do I live in an alternative reality, or do I have mutant/robot slugs and snails? 😄
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@Fire has offered you a great range of solutions. The only one that really works for me is collecting and destroying them but it does work. I no longer have a problem. Good luck.
You have to dispatch them - whether by snipping or scrunching underfoot or any other method, or else accept it, and/or plant fewer slug/snail attracting plants.
They reproduce in large numbers, so don't kid yourself that chucking them over a fence, or similar, will do any good.
The Spanish slugs seem to eat everything, so if you're in an area that has those, it'll be a constant battle.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Indeed. Plants grown harder are more able to withstand potential damage. Applying compost, or any organic matter to the soil, rather than artificial food, is always better too.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'm never going to kill them, partly because we have tons of birds, and some frogs and a hedgehog. I have wood piles I'll never move because they're there for the littl'uns.. so I put them on the gravel patch where I feed the birds, because they clean up bits of bird seed, and the frogs wait there for them - easy pickings is slugs in a terracotta dish! 😄