Holey cow batman, lol. I have slugs too. I feel for you, lol.

I have Bookoo Slugs!!! I can't do the beer thing.. The dogs will drink it...LOL
She is very Pretty.. I dug mine up and it is in the house..she is not much for the heat.. another one that might BE OUT OF HERE!!! I have no room for Sissy's

Have not seen any slugs. Are they the same as snails? Or are those the once without the house? I ask my mom what she used to do to control pests. She said she laid out lettuce and collected them in the morning and drown the s....I read that snails can be hypernating for THREE years.....is that really true? Cause then mine are sleeping.......hope no prince comes and wakes them up any time soon. Sharing the brugs and plants with enough critters....grasshoppers, Lotus', worms and spiders. Snakes in my brugs. Tried to show my granddaughter but that little thing took off lol. Then these izzy pizzy tiny brown hopping round things that are eating these tiny holes in all brugs and dats grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I don't thing I got enough praying mantis' around. Funny they are not growing bigger this year.
I am coming to the conclussion that Texas has ALL the bugs and in HUGE sizes lol....well TX size lol
About the beer thing........why NOT? lol...my male cat likes to sip on the beermug from DH rofl

Slugs don't have shells. They are just slimy and gross. The brown hopping things are flea beatles, lol. They ate up my datura last year.

That's a pretty bloom. I'm having the worst time ever with slugs this year. Earlier in the season it was very wet so I understood but we've been in a mini drought for the past month and they are still a huge problem.
Karyn

Kristy thank you. Now I have a name for that pesty little bug. I think they all migrated up the hill rofl.

Karyn I think even the animals do not know what is going on this year and are doing things that are not normal.

Very beautiful blossom. There are so many holes everywhere this year , that I just look beyond them now. Accept it as is and just see the beauty.
The cooler nights sure help in the brugs setting new buds. This time I hope that the Lemon Maringue...hope I spelled it right...my mind is not on brugs right now really....since I should be cleaning lol......Anyways LM has several buds. One is in the process of opening and I hope I get lucky too and the blossom will develope as nicely as yours. If it does I don't even mind a few holes.

Lucy

Put a kneehigh over the buds and twist-tie shut on stem, then remove right as they are opening. The dang snails have eaten all the tendrils off the buds on this one of mine!

Kylie, I am so over it with sissies, too!! Yep, got a few of those going by the wayside this Fall!

thanks I will have to go get me some lol. Glad I do not have any in the front yard. Neighbors might get me comitted hahahaha Doing weird things already hahahahahahahah

Beautiful bloom, mine like this one is a sissy also !! growing very poorly, and looks pitiful.I don't think it's a keeper :(

Brenda another use for all those stockings. My plants are starting to look like a lingere shop. lol
Karyn

Very pretty Brenda. Love the color!
I resorted to poison for my beds this year. Everything else was just temporarily working for a night or two, and I got too frustrated! I am using Ortho Slug and SNail Be Gone. Man, that stuff is great, and it lasts for 4 weeks. I only had to re-apply once since I started using it. I love the stuff. I even put a few pellets in each pot.

Slugs have eaten so many seedlings this year, it is unreal!, I can't do the beer or the pellets because of the animals, any other suggestions?

I havent found any other way that works Linda. Havent tried the stocking method mentioned here though.
I tried so many dif things, thats why I finally broke down and resorted to the pellets. I have animals, and kids too, but my beds are all fenced in. Once the pellets get really wet and break down, you dont have to worry about the animals seeing them and trying to eat them.
Between the weather, the slugs and the bugs..this summer has really sucked...and its going way too fast.