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Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

I have slugs...no matter what I do, I am having no luck

7/13/2015 8:10:55 PM

Cobleskill Ny

me to shannon

7/13/2015 8:14:13 PM

South of Buffalo

little cups with beer, salt traps(depression in soil with beer cup at center and salt in rings-beer draws them in and salt kills), store bought slug bait. Ive had success with all 3

7/13/2015 8:47:01 PM

Central NY

They will also think twice before crossing 3/4 inch copper pipe ...

7/13/2015 8:57:21 PM

Ely Mn

Do you use coffee grounds?that's suppose to help.

7/13/2015 9:53:01 PM

North Smithfield, RI

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slug motel, add stale beer and in the morning it will be full of dead mollusks !

7/13/2015 9:59:16 PM

BC, Canada

Slugs we got. All sorts. The native banana slugs are sort of cute. Try licking one some time, a real thrill.
Mechanical traps can help; such as a few pieces of wood laid down and then turned over in the day time makes for easy squashing. The old beer trap, or any food that attracts them into an area where they can drown or be collected. Two black plastic pots, one inside the other but slightly separated makes a good trap. A DMZ zone around important plants (AGs) in which you have removed all the plants material or liter where they can hide or are attracted to helps. An early night time patrol with a pointed stick can yield a big catch especially after a rain, Wood ash helps a bit. And there is always the commercial slug baits, metaldehyde and the newer iron phosphate type. http://www.hostalibrary.org/firstlook/RRIronPhosphate.htm
We do it all to keep them at a dull roar.
Here the chances are that if you find a slug in your garden, it is an introduced invasive.

7/14/2015 1:50:56 AM

Albert County, New Brunswick,CANADA

they will hide under boards so use this technique of placing many hiding places where you can easy kill them in the daytime...eventually your populations will drop into the next year. Kill them completely by mashing, eggs a possibility may survive, not totally sure but seems reasonable.

7/14/2015 1:10:26 PM

Home of happy lil plants

http://41.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lugqh8yJvJ1qlyw94o1_500.jpg

7/14/2015 3:08:20 PM

Joliet, IL

Very heavy this year with all the rains. I have an abundant poplution of big ass brown toads that have established themselves over the past 3 yyears. It sucks to step on walking boards to hear the squeek and squish on occassion of these toads....but they live in the same places as slugs which is perimeter weeds or under walking boards and seem to help.

http://www.examiner.com/article/toads-are-natural-slug-control-attract-them-to-the-garden-with-a-toad-home

Have some neighborhood kids round some up like we use to do as kids Shannon and put in the patch....can't hurt.

7/14/2015 5:12:26 PM