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Ick! Slugs everywhere!

This is the second year we've been in our home and I've had a pretty decent flower bed. I keep getting slugs and this year they are horrid! They are destroying my potato plants and crawling all over everything else. I've researched some methods to eliminate them, but some options sound rather complicated. Just curious if anyone has tried a method that has worked well for them because right now I look like a crazy lady every night picking them out of my garden and dumping salt on the nasty critters. My neighbors must think I'm nuts! Any advice please?
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Re: Ick! Slugs everywhere!

  • sprinkle Sluggo or EsCargo.  They eat it & then die.  No picking or salting!

    And, it's safe around kids & pets, too.  It's basically iron phosphate or something.

  • Try a small container filled with beer (I use a crap beer like Bud) at ground level. Works like a champ.  GL.
  • You can also try spreading some sand around the bases of your plants.  It cuts them right up when they try to move through it.
  • They decimated my hostas last year.  This year I just spread crushed eggshells around my plants and they're perfect.
  • Thank you the responses! I'm going to try them out tomorrow. I can't wait to have my garden slug free and pretty again. I appreciate it!
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  • Put about a teaspoon of salt on them and they will melt
  • I've had decent luck w the beer method mentioned above.  Fill shallow saucers, (or pie pans, whatever) with beer (cheapest you can find) around the garden.  In the morning there's tons of dead slugs in the beer. 
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