You could have stood over them with an umbrella and fanned them during the heat wave, but if all you have is a few brown tips and some bleaching you're doing great. Lots of mine look like hammered carp. I mainly post the pretty ones.

Marilyn Monroe is still gorgeous, as is Paisley Print and all my teeny minis like Appletini, Pure Heart, Cracker Crumbs, and Cameo. Blue Jay is not too bad, having a slightly more sheltered position. Maui Buttercups got fried. My new Ivory Queen is fine, being under iris leaves. Grand Prize did not achieve last year's size or beauty this year. Nor did Sparkler, although it's not burned. Hyuga Urajiro is fine and so is its neighbor Raspberry Sundae. Can't tell about my new Coconut Custard, as it's still pretty small. Doesn't look burned, however. Gypsy Rose is practically under the branches of my dwarf spirea and was spared to look beautiful. Yellow Polka Dot Bikini got pretty sun blasted, poor thing. Autumn Frost was spared by the Obligatory Bushes' shade. Paradise Island got really sun blasted, a real shame. Rainforest Surprise was also sun blasted. Looks like the left-hand garden fared better than the right-hand one.

Darn those slugs for ripping up my gorgeous heuchies! At least they're probably dead by now, seeing as how the pellets are about gone.

Tell me about your Marilyn Monroe situation. That's one of mine that looks horrible. How much shade and water? Maui Buttercups is a finicky hosta in my garden, I have two and neither one is thriving. I have my Sparkler in a sunken pot for two seasons and it's happy, grew a lot more this year. Grand Prize was new last fall and planted in a stellar location. It's been in a holding pattern this year. My Paradise Island is scheduled to be moved to more shade, it never adapted to its heavy sun exposure even after two years.

If you aren't concerned about your neighbours thinking you are a crazy person, do what I do...go out with a flashlight and a pair of scissors late at night and cut these buggers in half. It seems to be working because I'm not seeing too much new damage.

Sluggo doesn't leave bodies around. The way you know it is working is if there are no new holes. Sprinkle it sparingly about every couple weeks to assure their demise. Many hostas in August get tired looking. But then, most of the stuff in the garden gets weary looking late in Summer. Enjoy your wonderful successes!

-Babka

I am not concerned about my neighbors thinking I am a crazy person. I could care less what they think, considering the way THEY behave. However, my area is rated by Accuweather as a "10" for mosquitoes, i.e. "Extreme". I try not to go out after dark, even sprayed up with Off! This year, I have collected way too many bites, even just coming in from my car with a bag of groceries.

I don't see any dead slugs, but like I said, the pellets have disappeared after both applications of Sluggo. I do see some new leaf growth on some of the heuchies. So I'd like to know if you think I'm "over the hump" with the slugs or if I need to do a third application. Some of the heuchies are NOT growing new leaves. My poor Marmalade, which was magnificent earlier this summer, truly a vision, is now nothing but stems with tattered shreds of leaves. At least I hope the little perps are DEAD for their misdeeds.

Kathy---my Marilyn Monroe is in one of the sunnier situations in the east-facing garden. It gets morning sun and then gets overshadowed by my building by about 3 p.m. I was watering with my new soaker hose system for like 6 hours in a session one night, but then we got rain for several days and I didn't have to water. At the beginning of the season, I put down a nice amount of Osmocote, which seems to be sufficient to the needs of the garden residents.

"You could have stood over them with an umbrella and fanned them during the heat wave,"

Just have to say that made me LOL! ...I've sometimes wished I had a mister system for all my hostas, and hail repellent would help a lot, too. :-)

Esther, that is how Sluggo works. You sprinkle and it disappears along with the slugs.

"Hail repellant" I want some of that! I got my laugh, too!

Esther, I have almost no slugs in my garden, I have millions of toads. I can't walk ten feet without some toad hopping away. I don't know what they like about it here, but maybe you could do some research and make your garden more toad friendly.

No, Kathy, we don't have toads around here. We DO have non-indigenous small lizards, the Italian Wall lizard. I only wish they'd call my garden home. They are found a few hundred feet from my yard on the campus of the local community college, and they are beautiful small lizards of bright green and brown, with lovely markings. I know exactly what sort of vegetation and habitat they like, but so far, they are not moving in here.

I have a wild little cat visiting and begging for food and love. Some weeks ago she left a bit of the cat food (not the dry pellets but the one sold in cans) and when I came out in the morning a lot of those really ugly big red slugs were feasting on the cat food. So I could easily dispose them with the scissors. Since then I had none again. Maybe it's worth a try :-)

I've put out (and watched disappear) 2 applications of Sluggo. I wonder if I should do it a third time.

I do it every few weeks from the time they emerge until the hostas go dormant. No slugs, no holes. ;-)

-Babka

My garden center said you need to reapply Sluggo every 2 weeks

I just put another dose of Sluggo out on my garden beds. I am seeing new leaf growth on the poor decimated heuchies but not the few hostas that were affected. The hostas only got a few oval holes in their leaves, but it still hurts my eyes.

Eliminator snail and slug killer does NOT work; got it at Walmart,. Just saying...............................

I guess Hermine will provide PLENTY of rain this weekend...

If I go out at night I get mugged by a mosquito. Esther-B, I think you'll understand. Sluggo here turns to fuzzy while balls in the humidity & looks like a fungus. Plus it rains almost every day. I'm trying another method & will report back if I find one that works!

At this time in the season slug pellets are beneficial. But what is really important to understand, is that slug pellets should first be applied when the hostas are just beginning to emerge. You want to kill them before they mate and reproduce. Then pellets need to be regularly applied throughout the season. You may not see much difference the first year. But after that, your slug population should decrease considerably.

The first season that I began to seriously grow hostas, I went outside at night after it had rained. I was shocked to see all the slugs---on my hostas and on the lawn. I began to think that I wasn't going to be able to grow hosta after all. With the help of pellets, a 10% ammonia drench and going out at night (to spray the ammonia drench directly on the slugs), I can now say that my slug population is under control.

With the mosquito alert at "10" most nights, I won't even go out at night sprayed head to toe with Off! The mosquitoes seem to find the one spot you didn't coat enough.

Esther, I understand that you are concerned about going outside at night. But there still is a lot you can do during the day to reduce your slug population. The key is to start at the beginning of the season.