I think I just had a brilliant thought re garden slugs....

[Ciel]

This is the first spring that I recall seeing actual snails on plant stems in the flower gardens. Usually, I come across snails on a sidewalk after rain.

Slugs-the beer in the lids in the garden is a tip I heard of years ago. A gardener of some exp. said not to water the garden at night as slugs are most active then. So far I'm relying on rainstorms for water.

[GoJays]

i bought a roll of copper tape from Lee Valley Tools to wrap around the bottom of pots.. before copper tape - complete devastation.. after copper tape - happy, safe plants, unhappy slugs

here's a site i found
http://eap.mcgill.ca/MagRack/JPR/JPR_29.htm

[Darth Penguin]

I love Lee Valley..I'm so glad I don't have a credit card though..

[Lynn49]

i bought a roll of copper tape from Lee Valley Tools to wrap around the bottom of pots.. before copper tape - complete devastation.. after copper tape - happy, safe plants, unhappy slugs

here's a site i found
http://eap.mcgill.ca/MagRack/JPR/JPR_29.htm

Thank you, Jays, I do remember reading something about copper years ago...Now: this copper tape..is it readily available in local hardware type stores? The link you posted didn't make it quite clear enough (for me) on how it's used...so you just place it on the ground around the base of your plants?
I think I'll have to order it if it's not available locally...thank you for the reminder, Jays!

[GoJays]

the website is unrelated to the copper tape, it was just information on the slugs.. here's the website for Lee Valley Tools and the copper tape
http://www.leevalley.com/en/garden/p...t=2,51555&ap=1

[improperganda]

Hmm pet hair? I'll deff give that a try since I groom my yorkie myself and hes very fluffy!

[Lynn49]

Hmm pet hair? I'll deff give that a try since I groom my yorkie myself and hes very fluffy!

We did this when we had our BC, Tammy...all that under-downy fluff...and had no problem with slugs. Apparently they just get wound up in the stuff and it's curtains for them!
Jenny is flat. No fluff=garden slugs.

[Sunshyne1]

We did this when we had our BC, Tammy...all that under-downy fluff...and had no problem with slugs. Apparently they just get wound up in the stuff and it's curtains for them!
Jenny is flat. No fluff=garden slugs.

Tuckers part husky and his hair is overflowing! I'll send you some! lol

[millak]

hahahah I can just imagine opening that envie...

"Ohh whats this! .......oh..yay my dog hair arrived!!!!" Would get some strange looks from DH lol

Has anyone had success with using ammonia based repellent. I'll have to google and read up but if you treat in the early spring and use diluted ammonia its supposed to detract them or something of the sort. You shouldn't get it on the leaves though!!! just on the ground in a circle around the hosta in the spring when its coming up.

oh good god@!!! read up everybody!!!! http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/l...425321998.html
there are slug eggs in the soil !!! yeeeeeeeeeep

Tuckers part husky and his hair is overflowing! I'll send you some! lol

[millak]

Quoted from the website i linked above! ~^

· To destroy slugs, you can hand pick them and put them in a glass bottle containing about 2 inches of vinegar (acetic acid). The slugs die instantly. Liquid ammonia also is effective and even better because it creates nitrogen which plants love.
· You create "slugs baits" where slugs will be attracted to. Examples: 1) a carpet left on the ground near your compost pile; 2) a thick layer of wet newspaper again left on the ground in the vicinity of the compost pile (which is away from your hosta beds); 3) use Sluggo around each hosta and slugs that make it into the garden will be attracted to the Sluggo and when they eat it they die; 4) you sink a container filled with beer level with the ground. Slugs will enter the container and will drown. This beer setup can be also near the compost pile.
· After a rainfall, slugs are forced out of the ground and you can see them all over the lawn; they travel over the grass at whatever attracts them first…or the most. Eliminate these loose slugs by spot spraying the lawn with diluted ammonia. Attach a container filled with ammonia to the end of the hose and adjust the outlet so that water will mix with the ammonia in a 1 to 10 ratio approximately. This method is fast and efficient and provides nutrient to the lawn.
· After a rainfall is the best time to cut the grass. Keep it short. The new lawnmower picks up the grass clippings and may also suck in the slugs that were travelling on the grass.USING AMMONIA AS A TREATMENT (Best method)
Irene, here is part of an article by Bob Olsen of the American Hosta society. This was in the Hosta Journal a few years back.
Larry Clemmons, an accomplished hosta grower from Dubuque, had an almost slug-free gorgeous garden last year while many of his friends from nearby towns were being overrun. Unlike the beer and lightweight chemicals they were using, Larry was spraying the hosta once a week or so with a dilute solution of plain old ammonia. The slugs hate the ammonia and the plants love the nitrogen. He uses a regular inexpensive tank and nozzle sprayer and went over and down into each plant-and he has a lot of them. He sprays the hostas with a dilute (4:1 or even weaker) solution of water and household ammonia in the evening once a week-more often in the spring or with a lot of rain. It would take him no more than two hours a week and there were almost no slug holes. The folks visiting from Iowa City which was being inundated by mollusks were astounded by his lush foliage just a few miles away and many have adopted his system. Don