Under Siege in my house.

[Skinny Pete]

I did experiment with copper strips. The strip has to be wide enough the the slug/snail cannot span the strip . As in touching the wall or ground either side of the strip. Worked well on giant African land snails.

 

[Ratel]

Water pistol full.of salt water, No2 Dragon had that in one hand and scissors in the other to cut em in half. Best bag up in the Border hills 593 in garden one night. Had to reload three times.

 

[darrel]

the slugs hide out of sight in the day in walls under slabs or gravel salt is rearly good put it down where you think they are
hidden in the day and it will get them when they come out at night and it it stays dry the salt will keep killing them

 

[downwind]

You could try encouraging hedgehogs to take up residency, plenty of information on t'internet to build hog friendly accommodation. Or alternatively toads, either will eat large numbers of slugs.

If you have hedgehogs, please do not use slug pellets. (Mrs Downwind)

 

[Andy RV]

In my experience my hens have never liked slugs, worms are much preferred.

 

[The Singing Stalker]

Mrs TSS also confirmed ducks. See if you can borrow some and see how it goes.

 

[paul o']

If it were only that easy.

old guy down the road has it only garden tools he has is a blower and a pressure washer! such bliss.

 

[Len the dog]

Salt and slug pellets won’t be much good in this spell of wet weather, slug pellets will kill the hedgehogs and manually removing them is time consuming.
You could try nematodes, they infest the slug and produce a natural bacteria that kills them, they reproduce in the soil so last longer than salt or pellets.

 

[jimo]

If you’re using ferric phosphate pellets they are slow acting so most slugs make it back under cover before dying. If you have got hold of some metaldehyde be very careful as they are very toxic to mammals.

 

[Firefly]

As mentioned earlier - Nematodes

Nemaslug Slug Killer

 

[Merlyn]

Well this is how it turned out.

I did not try badgers, hedgehogs, etc. - Thought I might get done by the animal welfare mob!
Beer traps - worked and caught many but just not enough. Not happy with using the nectar of the East Anglian gods for this purpose.
Slug pellets - Don't know as I can't see the results - Slugs certainly entered the trays.
Salt - Spread along the base of the house walls, on the french drain gravel channels and on the patio on the dry nights. This worked wonderfully.

Last night there was only one lonely looking slug on the wall of the house whereas I was killing 60 to 80 per night - and even more on some occasions.

The salt seems to have done the trick but I don't know how long it will last.

I have tried namatodes in the past but the results were not conclusive. Think this is because I had to spread them on concrete and paving stones.

Thanks for all the comments and advice.
Ben