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.
Cause he thinks she melts when he touches her
She knows she's the chocolate girl
Cause she's broken up and swallowed
And wrapped in bits of silver
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'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! 😄