They are bird food, lizard food, frog food. Other than that, kill 'em all I say, flick them off your plant, etc. Nothing much works against them, I've found. Slugs and snails ruin much of my garden every year. I hand pick them off at least twice a day in our wet season.

If it's between them or my plants, the plants win.

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Here is a link that might be useful: trap

Has anybody tried used coffee grounds ?

I've heard a drink of beer from the bottle top is enough alcohol to kill them and they enjoy drinking it.

You can reduce the slug problem by encouraging predators such as amphibians, mammals, and birds, and by maintaining a moderate mulch to promote insect predators. However, a NEW mulch will actually encourage slugs at first. But you have to start sometime.

Iron phosphate (sold as Slug-go, Slug Magic, and other brands). is very effective and safe on herbs and other edibles.. However, it isn't cheap and it must be reapplied after every heavy rain..

I tried beer but that did not seem to work. I was reading the Epsom Salts works, has anyone tried this, if so does it work?

Beer is too expensive to serve slugs. Hehe. I pick them and use Get -Buga(Ortho) . after two years of continuous systematic efforts, there are very few of them around. They are mostly damaging when the seedling are small. But when squash and things like that are grown, a slug now and then is not going to case major damage. Today I mange to hunt 4 of them in all vegetable, flowers and shrubs gardens.

Hi all! Nice to see I have company in my slug-infestation. Actually, I'm pretty lucky. I've been picking them off in the early morning, but I haven't hit double digits yet. And they are usually little baby slugs --- though I did run across a 3-incher the other day and almost died of grossness.

Today, I saw two little frogs in my garden! 1 little brown thing, probably some type of toad? Tiny little thing, maybe the size of a quarter. Here's hoping he's a good little predator with a taste for slugs! And then I saw a little black frog. I'm not sure if they are living here or just passing through. I don't have a pond or any permanent water feature.

I've used the beer slug traps with great success. The traps are gross the empty but it is simple and easy to do with no dangerous chemicals to handle.

FataMorgana

Yeah..that toad is not eating nearly enough slugs to earn his keep.

Hi FataMorgana:

Iron phosphate is NOT a dangerous chemical. Iron phosphate (also known as ferric phosphate) is Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA). The slug baits that use this are OMRI listed for organic food production.

Both iron and phosphorus are part of the normal diet and are found in many foods'. I don't suggest eating this stuff, but if you or one of your pets happened to ingest a small amount by accident it wouldn't cause any problems.

You should treat any pesticide with respect. But all-in-all, this stuff is probably safer than what you use to wash your dishes..

I can sympathize... Nothing in my garden has been more detrimental than slugs. I've tried the beer trick in the past, and while it did drown many slugs, I felt it attracted even more. Those buggers cleared my pepper plants to the base. Personally, I won't be doing that in the future. I found that keeping my plants drys as possible was a pretty good deterrent. Of course that has been almost impossible for me this season.

Look up slug nematodes can make them yourself.nyourself.need to follow guidelines carefully but at a predator to the ground in the form of