Beginner Gardening: What is this?, 1 by Patbarr

Patbarr wrote:
Half an hour's slug hunting and look what I found. I don't kill them but take them for a walk to the end of the road and tip them into woodland so the birds, hedghogs etc. can have a good feed. I do sometimes wonder if they have a homing instinct though as I seem to catch as many the next time I have a search. I must admit that I do use slug pellets with metaldehyde around seedlings, but only in covered beds. I buy the ones that have an aditive to deter birds and animals from eating them, but I keep them covered anyway as the dead slug could still get eaten by something. I've tried ones with Iron phosphate and the slugs don't touch them.

Another organic solution is to put piles of bran among your plants and the slugs gorge themselves on that and leave your plants alone, or you can just collect them up while they are eating and dispose of them.