What slugbait are you using? I have had great results with Iron Phosphate products such as GardenSafe.

I've been putting out little dishes with beer in them near my trouble spots. Whenever the beer is fresh, I find a few little slugs and snails floating in it in the morning. The friend who told me about this trick said that the snails and slugs are attracted to the beer scent. They crawl in a drown. A nice organic option, but it has to be maintained - more time consuming that applying a bait, but if you just refill when you water, it's not too bad. I've also seen little pottery pots especially for this - they have a little dome lid and holes in the side for the slugs to crawl into. For me, Value Village dishes did the trick. Good luck!

If you use beer make sure it is the cheap kind. More expensive brands don't seem to work.

Cheap drunks!

Out gardening in the backyard this morning & found 5 snails (northern). I have never found these snails before + I'm finding them even on our house southern exposure. What is this???? Can't control them.

The Lilly's brand slug and snail bait I have been using has killed a few snails along with the slugs. Might be worth a try if they are wreaking havoc.

I have more luck with controlling the snails and slugs by baiting them vigilantly in the fall. The spring crop is easy to stay on top of then. I use pellets and beer -if hubby is kind enough to leave some in the can!

I was reading an interesting article about killing and keeping slugs and snails away with dilute solutions of caffeine. It said caffeine is a plant protection chemical and speeds up their heart rates and kills them. Slugs and snails have no surface protection from it since they crawl on slime and it is water soluble.

I think this is the worst year by far for snails and slugs. I just killed 5 HUGE snails hiding under the edge of my deck. I still get shivers when I squish them. Hate it, hate it, hate it ... I have two young kids and two new puppies who get into everything, so I'm only using non-toxic options. I bought 2 different varieties of pet friendly bait and saw no results. I have a store-bought trap out right now, and have done the beer ones before. They're tedious and messy, I think, plus they don't seem to catch that many. The only thing that has every really worked for me is Corry's. But it's the most toxic, I think.

I just tried something last night, but it's too early to tell if it worked. All of my marigolds and zinnias have been eaten to the ground this year. So I bought a six pack of marigolds and cut them apart, put each in a little plastic dish filled with table salt. My husband says the slugs will JUMP over the salt to get to the marigolds! :) I'm hoping they'll ooze into a frothy mess. I did catch one last night. I'll see how it goes over the weekend.

I've just started gardening and the slugs are certainly a menace - making my new hostas look like lace. A few weeks ago I decided to wage war - fixed a razor blade on a stick and "sliced & diced" about 20 of them. Definitely not a pleasant experience. Next night I went out with the salt and "seasoned" over 40 of them. Still icky. So the next night I put on latex gloves and filled two paper lunch sacks! Picked up 121 (yes that's three digits!) of the little beggers in one evening. That finally put a dent in the population - but I'm noticing that they're baaaack. Are slugs like moles and blackberries - a never ending battle? Or, with diligence, can I eventually get the upper hand? Thanks.
Teddi

This has been an unusually ideal spring and summer - for Slugs and Snails anyway - with repeated wet conditions just right for wave after wave of hatchout.

The large Slugs lay lots of BB-size eggs underground (& under things) in Fall - so be sure the big ones are your priority. They are Hermaphradite - and don't even need a parnter to multiply...but they like to have icky orgies under rocks and pieces of wood.

I use the box powder all around my house and planting borders a few times each Spring, after 2-3 weeks as rain can wash it away. Wear glasses as this stuff is lightweight and can catch the breeze and wind up in your face. I hate the metallic taste when you are shaking the box and some gets blown the wrong way. Have to run indoors and rinse several times to get rid of the taste. Yuk. Works however - altho I am still a vigialant stabber and stomper when I spot 'em anywhere.