http://www.nemasysinfo.com/

:( so sorry they are winning, what are you doing with them when collected? I am doing 3 patrols a night at least and the number I am finding is reducing, but I pick then squish them..... Then hose the stairs lol! Another Goyer, sorry cant recall who advised crushed up eggshells round the base of the plant is a good deterrent, or what about tring some sacrificial planting, such as Marigolds or nasturtium? Slugs will go for them before anything else I believe x good luck getting the slime brigade under control. X Mags

Hi Mags I screw the lid on tight and chuck em in the bin!! Tried egg shells they got over them-cle
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I've sent you a picture lol

Er. don't wish to spoil the party, but it is more likely to be snails doing the damage than slugs alone. Many slugs are in fact carnivorous and eat.........other slugs.

Scrumpygraham _ are you from Cornwall by any chance? Scrumpy! just a thought. Any way, have ordered my box of slug gone I hope it works its very expensive. Thanks for the tip

Maybe Owdboggy old friend, I should sieve through my bottle and take out the slugs that eat other slugs lol. What do they look like the slugs that eat other slugs I mean

Herefordshire originally. Yes, the name is to do with good old cider and apples :)
I use it on the allotment. From having a plague, or whatever the term is for a lot of slugs, I now have handfuls.

I wish I knew. Many of them are only distinguishable by examining their slime. The very large black/brown/ occasionally orange are definitely carnivores.

Ewwwww that's yucky :( you deffo have a worse infestation than me, my slugs are nowhere near as big ad yours, I also get tiny snails in by brick raised bed. Have you been checking under rocks n stuff for them? I'm having to look right in amongst my plants to find them now, just about to get my wellies on and go squishing ...... Garden clogs are on my shopping list! Hope the slug go is successful x Wish there was a kind of falconry service where you could hire a bird to just come munch on slugs!

How damp is your garden? That is a lot!

I go out each evening at dusk, and put a pinch of salt on every slug or snail I can find. It does reduce the population and they die horribly <evil laugh>.
Note to self - buy share is salt mines if this wet weather continues

I was listening to a gardening programme the other week and apparently it's the small slugs that do the most damage which you probably can't even see (the ones you're collecting are whoppers!) The experts recommended copper tape around each pot - apparently when they try to creep over it the slime creates an electric shock. But if course in the open garden this is not an option. A friend created a pond and apparently the frogs keep her strawberry patch free of slugs. Good luck with the nematodes route - can be expensive but then again so is buying seeds and plants to feed the local slime population.

We discussed this subject a few days ago when I put my slant on the subject see here;

http://www.growsonyou.com/question/show/82753

It's definitely the little black ones that do the most damage, and they are harder to spot than the big ones :-(

Thank you all so much. I wish I had a falcon or an army of blackbirds who would just get on with the job of eating the dam things! Don't see many of the blackbirds around here. My garden is really, really damp due to heavy rain.
I have just collected another 1litre bottle full again just now. I know where the buggers hide. They even got into my new vegetable drug that is high off the ground. Don't seem like i will be eating my veg again this year.
Teegee I 'll read your advise now ta

P.s I have a pond you could read my last years blogs. No frogs sadly. Still waiting for them to find my pond. I don't think there are any ponds around where I live. People round here can't be bothered to do any gardening!!