Storms and chickens

[Valkyrie]

OK, I'm not going to do a Hugh Fearlessly Eats it All with them. But . . . they do not like Stella Artois (neither do we which is why a stray bottle went into the experiment). So I tried Mackesons. No good either. The slugs have been nematoded and that's working well. I also bought some slug/snail attractant which also doesn't attract anything - not even insects!

However, they both like chicken pellets - which is annoying! I've used the matting with the copper but they are quite happy to wander across it, although the other year it did protect the broad beans very well - I think that must have been a fluke though.

 

Soooo, does anyone have a favourite method of sorting the little darlings out for good?

[Cat tails]

Tossing them over the fence!

[sjp]

size 12 boot works every time

beer isn't very good the sediment from bottle conditioned some times works did see milk recommended some were instead of bear after some sort of test but milk goes off to quick

I tried copper with no success sharp and rough surfaces don't work I've seen slugs and snails moving over broken glass on the top of walls more than a few times. I've got old ruff-faced granite faced slabs that are covered in slug/snail trails

chicken don't work either

but about the only thing that does' is salt not good long term for plants and slug pellets (non organic never had ant luck with organic types as most are no good if they get wet )if used in moderation

[Daphne]

I used to pick them off and toss them into a bucket with a lid on full of salt because I don't want salt all over the garden. It works but I feel a bit bad for doing it, rather stupidly the addition of a shell turns them from slugs to something nicer in my mind When its full I tip the resulting yukky mess over a patch of nettles I have at the end of the garden where it doesn't matter.

[mullethunter]

Fling them every night in my dressing gown just before bed and apologise to them if they hit anything hard.

 

Completely insane I think

[Valkyrie]

Sorry for the late response - I don't get notifications and I forget to look!

After seeing the slugs on the chicken food I was wondering about a solution of that to attract them. I wonder if snails feel the same way. And yes - low flying snails - except if undamaged they have a homing instinct and return. I don't really fancy doing a Hugh F W and eating them. I've seen blackbirds smashing the shells - learnt from the thrushes?