Slugs can climb up, but I don't often get them if jugs are up off the ground.

Try Sluggo (iron phosphate)- not in the jugs, but encircling them.

Karen

You could try the beer trick too.... fill a small tin can with beer. They will crawl in it to get to the beer and drown.
Maybe they will prefer the beer to your seedlings.

whenever I find slugs, or any bug for that matter in my garden it goes in the fish pond.

I ditto what beck_wi said... Dead beer is a wonderful thing
when it comes to trapping slugs! I never was a believer til' I tried it this spring. Now I fill tuna cans, and whatever I can salvage that will hold dead beer out of the trash....
Watch out for those roly-poly pill bugs too. They darn near wiped out my future zucchini crop.The zucchini were at the very tender barely two leaves stage as well! I spied them all over the place, and even caught a couple dining on those tender seedlings as well...Or at least I thought so.... Well maybe it was slug damage, and they were coming in for the proverbial kill... However, I did catch one of them feasting on a tender stem at the time.... So now I assume if slugs don't get em' pill bugs will. Although I have read that pill bug.... roly poly bugs are supposed to feed on decomposing waste, and such...
I don't have a fish pond yet, however, it is something to think about...almost incentive to put one in if you ask. me...
bgrow_gardens

I have always kept my containers off the ground since the first year when I lost a few containers to those slimy you-know-whats. Frustrating isn't it?! Hope all turns out for the containers you saved them from.

I have the opposite problem, they dont bother the jugs, but rampage on my daylilies in particular.. Every year I say Im going to put out sluggo or try a trap (I dont drink beer, but Ive been told wet alfalfa is also a might attractor, which I do have, but havent put it out!)

Frogs and Toads are starting to appear, as is salamanders. The slugs diminish after early spring. Usually just in time to be rampaged ourselves by the black flies..

For those of you who do not have black flies (lucky you) They are little gnats that suck blood, and they swarm, sometimes in the dozens, OFF or raider doesnt seem to effect them as much as well, they just find the little spot you missed and bite you there! Luckily there season is fairly short..

Silverkelt

Esgar-Go by Gardens Alive worked so well for me several years ago that I still have almost the whole container.

Two applications, and I haven't seen any since.

It is harmless to children and pets.

I didn't know what a slug was until I staretd gardening. Then I started each morning before breakfast on a slug hunt that resulted in the elimination of many slugs each day. It wasn't a very nice way to start the day, but after a couple of years I have noticed that the slug population is much smaller and so far this spring have only come across a couple which were eliminated right away. Then do crawl up porches. I haven't had any attack my jugs which are in the garden where they will be planted. If they are attacking your jugs, I would declare an agreesive war with them immediately. Becasue for every slug you see, there are probably several hundred that you don't see waiting to munch on your plants. The more you can eliminate now, the easier next year will be,

I love to get my spray bottle with ammonia water and the flash light to go slug hunting after dark. Can you imagine what the neighbors think?