How do i get rid of slugs in my garden?

the garden was over run with these slime balls last year %26amp; i was wandering if there was somewhat of an easy way to get rid of them. iam getting chickens this year hoping that will help.

How do i get rid of slugs in my garden?
The beer thing works, but you have to bury it up to the rim. They will drown themselves.


Also you can wrap a strip of screen (plastic works as well as metal) around your flower pots. They will tear themselves up if they try to cross it.


Another way is to wrap a copper strip around your flower pots. The copper reacts with the slime on their bodies and discourages them from crossing it.


Also, don't plant marigolds ~ they LOVE them.
Reply:Beer is my favorite method... UC Davis has a lot of good information about snails and slugs... http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES...
Reply:I have GOT to try the beer trick :)





In the past I have used table salt.
Reply:spinkle with salt
Reply:i read it was soapy water, but i haven't tried it yet
Reply:Bowl full of beer. Trust me, just like humans, slugs are attracted to beer, but they lack the ability to swim, so when they get drunk they drown.
Reply:obviously you can poison them with pellets or you can spend time looking for them and just getting rid of the eggs or slugs with you fingers, you can put cans or glass jars in the ground filled with beer and the slugs will get attracted and fallm in or you can keep a chicken , encourage hedgehogs or put rough material such as sand paper around the bottom of each plant.
Reply:Dig a trench around the garden,fill with salt.
Reply:There are a couple of products that you can try. Ask at your garden store. Plain salt sprinkled around your plants will help also. ALso don't forget the beer, it works wonders.
Reply:Hope you find this website useful...


Slug control


Slug Baits


Slug barriers


http://www.garden-services.com/slug_cont...
Reply:chickens will eat your seedlings and tear apart your mature plants


Get ducks their bills arent as sharp


plus their cuter
Reply:You can use Diatomaceous Earth to control slugs and all sorts of other insects in your garden. Just dust it on the ground where you usually find slugs. However, diamotaceous earth isn't harmful to humans, animals, or earthworms. Also, toads eat slugs. You could go catch a few and put them in your garden.
Reply:Table salt
Reply:Good ole table salt..
Reply:Salt isn't something I would recommend putting around plants because that could kill the plants. You sprinkle salt on them after you have them in a container to kill them. Ground eggshells work or copper around the plants because they get a shock of some kind when they touch it so they don't cross.
Reply:put rock salt on them and watch them suffer

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