YEEUUKK

They don't like fuchsias and I do. When I plant out young seedlings /plants I put the middle section of a lemonade bottle round them until they are well grown this seems to work as slugs appear to only like soft young shoots. Have read that they do not like peppery plants and they do leave the rocket and chillies alone but eat the like radish! Also dahlias have to watch for young shoots coming through if I leave any in overwinter.

I'm sick of my potted lilies being systematically destroyed by the Red Lily Beetle. At first I kept an eye out for them on the plants, picking them off and crushing them underfoot, but more keep appearing and I can now only watch helplessly as the plants become ever more ragged and disgustingly festooned with slimy black poo. I won't bother with lilies next year!

Also planted some clematis this year as I love them - only to have those gnawed to b*****y by snails and/or slugs, despite using slug pellets. It's so disheartening. We seem to have thousands of them this year. I don't know how to protect clematis- you sprinkle pellets on the soil (or use Nemaslug which is very expensive and I'm not sure it's worked very well) but how to you protect the leaves and shoots when snails seem to leap down on them from somewhere else?

Never wanted to resort to pellets but it's either that or very little garden!

Anyone know which bedding plants snails and slugs DON'T eat? I've planted up some pretty puts and tubs and I'm not sure I've made wise choices....

All i can say is thank god for slug pellets!!!! I dont really like using chemicals in the garden but if i didn't i would have no young veggies or plants growing!!!!

My hubby once made a beer trap when he had collected a fair few slug he tipped contents onto the compost heap cue several drunk birds staggering around the garden after eating said slugs. I know we shouldn't but how we laughed

I hate hate hate slugs!especially since dogs can catch lungworm off them or their slime, I keep my dogs toys in a bucket of salt water to make sure they are slime free, and I put salt down to keep them off my step, I don't like doing this but they make me cringe, I'm glad someone else thinks they look like whales, I think the big black ones do, YUCK!

Slugs - we eat snails so why not slugs?

I cull them nightly - cant bear thought of torture by drowning (beer trap) or pellets so I kill quickly by cutting in half. Then leave the dead slug and all its 'friends' appear there the following night to eat the remains of the dead slug....

Hate to scare anyone, but, teeny tiny baby slugs crawl into lettuce leaves and go unnoticed! My bet is we have eaten plenty in our time!!!!

liz46

Haha! A frog!

Was that a slug or frog ?

I have eaten one. It tasted like chicken, but it's not something I would try again. The menu was in French and I had no clue. Just the thought of it now is eww!

Aren't you glad we cook frogs first

I hope you don't mind me joining in with this. It is so funny. I admit I was an organic nut, and every time it rained I said "aww" as Brian the snail and his brood of a million partied in my garden..and then I wondered why I had no delphiniums, lupins or hosta.
I have changed, you could call me a serial killer, the garden psychopath,as blue pellets and stamp is my method now, and I have no guilt (unless I think deeply about it).

I saw a duck in my garden eat a small frog. It's legs were wriggling as the duck ate it. I feel bloody sick now, remembering that!

That's just too much, Gandtea.
Wish I had bear feet!!

But did you see him cook them on TV, then try them ? Not recommended.

I'm answering my own question after Googling it. Yes, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall cooks slugs in a tomato sauce ! He washes them in vinegar first to remove the slime ! Anyone want to come for tea ?

LOL @ 'bear feet'

Was eating an egg sandwich whilst reading this, SwimHome. I now feel strangely queasy!

Can't bear them. Usually pick them up on the trowel and flick them in to the hens who eat them (then I can't eat the next day's eggs) but even the hens refuse to have anything to do with the big orangey ones that are around now. Hate them!

I use a low bowl with a can of cheap beer poured in every couple of nights - seems irresistible to slugs, and they die happy...

Thank you all sooooooo much for making me feel glad that I live in a flat with no garden!

Ugh, ugh, ugh. I have a major phobia of s****s - can't even bear to type the word. Now I can add mushrooms on toast to that list.

I can't bear to kill slugs although I hate them eating my plants. The other day I saw a slime trail on my patio going round and round with a rather dried-up dying slug next to it. I took pity on it and used a watering can to wash it under the shed. Next day I found the same thing with what looked like the same slug so repeated the rescue operation. Am I mad?

I remember looking after my friend's DS age 18 months - his mother was worried that he was late in beginning to talk. I took him out in the garden, and showed him the 'wildlife'.
"Look, Alexander, theres a great big fat slug!" I said. "F*CK" said Alexander. It was his first word ever and he repeated it at every opportunity. Of course, he thought he was saying 'SLUG', but I had problems convincing his mummy!
He's 22 now, and we still laugh about it.