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Hello all my lovely gardening folks. I've tried everything. nematodes pellets beer the lot.  last year my garden was destroyed by slugs. My lovingly nurtured dahlias were eaten to the ground in one night. No delphiniums survived. Green brands

The slugs are coming up the tree across a metal bar then down to the bird feeder 4 or 5 each night why do they like the wild bird seed? Can put salt down but thats not nice . slugs will eat  anything that's not moving( and also rats and mice

Every garden has its fair share of slugs and the bad news is that they are around for most of the year. They're active mostly after dark, especially when it's damp. In hot dry weather they bury themselves to avoid dehydrating.Holes are chewed

Hey there This is probably one thats already been posted but does anyone have advise on Slugs? I don't want to use pellets and have got stuff to set beer traps.. Do eggshells work? Or whats the best you can advise - NO CHEMICALS and child friendly

Jist a story ! Fifteen years ago,  my mother, Mamie Murphy, aged 70 at the time, owned and ran The Charleston Hotel, Aboyne, Royal Deeside. The front gardens always took a lot of looking after and she found it was always plagued by slugs. She

I am new to gardening. Could someone please tell me do slugs eat Geraniums, the bedding type. Also do they eat Dianthus. Thank you i have never known them to eat geraniums or dianthus.. they are not soft and juicy enough for them. I am afraid my red

I wonder if anyone has same problem as me.. 2yrs ago got rid of pond with frogs in.. bad move.. did`nt realise what a wonderful job they do... we must over the last 6wks killed over 200 slugs..very big orange ones too... lost count with snails.. I

but will get rid those horrid slugs and snails which I have an abundance of; and those underground too.  I have tried so many things and always end up with the pellets as this is the only way to get rid of them, although I am so aware of the harm to the birds

Good morning everyone from a sunny  Essex ,suddenly I am overrun by SLUGS, tried Pellets ,two different types, but they seem to like them ,  grit round plants , Bird cage grit ,oyster shell grit,  they have munched on my Brocolli ,my purple brussels

Hi is any way getting rid of slugs and snails we out poison ! As only new to gardening and the net One of my favourite subjects~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Basically you cant get rid of them but you can restrict them -find their hiding places- bits of wood