If you're having problems with plants in pots and containers, then use copper tape and/or slug pellets, or Nemasys Slug Control.

Take any plastic bottle...water, soda.... and using a sharp knife cut off the bottom about an inch away from the bottom thus making a small saucer. Set it on the flagstone, pour in the beer to the rim. If you have some beer left in the bottle, (no I am not going to get cute and tell you to drink the rest) set it aside on a shelf or in the fridge to refill your traps.

Just about any container will do, they don't mind climbing, that's what they are good at!

Copper does not work. They climb right over it. The pellets do.

Copper works fine in my garden, Bathgate, and in those of everyone I know. Which is why I suggested it. Perhaps the copper tape in the US is inferior...?

COPPER does not work. The slugs climb right over it.

look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndrOv70Dbpw

Perhaps your slugs are cleverer than ours. Last year I made a collar for my hosta and didn't have a single leaf chomped!

OK OK, I'm just saying. I don't use the tape. I use real copper American pennies, making a triple ring around each cabbage plant. I have better luck with crushed eggshells. It's the snails I have a problem with. Aren't snails & slugs the same thing?

American cents are I believe over 90 percent zinc, so would't work.Try some copper tape as an experiment and see if its better.

Snails have shells, slugs don't. the damage they do is the same!

Minting of the USA 100% copper penny stopped in 1837. From then on the percentage of copper in the coin has dropped to what it is today, in basically , zilch. Bathgate, if you have any of those minted before 1837, why get a slug for a penny when I can give you, say, five cents for each one of those coins you have:)

Hmm some new thoughts I have now. It now costs $1.62 to make a dollar's worth of nickels, and $1.66 to make a dollar's worth of pennies. By contrast it costs only 36 cents to make a dollar's worth of quarters, and 40 cents for a buck of dimes. I think I'm honing in on the problem now. Thanks