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Pet hair, hair brush fluff and even carpet fluff sweepings work really well. Little 'nests' around the stalks deters slugs and snails. Keep it topped up because when the hair compacts it works less well. All the hair is also compostable. My garden has changed completely since I discovered this tip.

Instead of wasting beer, just get a jug of 2 litres of cold water, and mix in 2 tablespoons of yeast and 2 tablespoons of sugar (these can be bought in bulk and a very cheap!) and put this in your Slug Pubs. You can fill lots of them with 2 litres, also with them dotted around the whole garden, you can find the areas that have the most slugs and try clear them out from their stronghold. The slug pubs don't need to be buried and the edges of the container don't worry them, they will climb straight in! Trust me, I was once over run!! 🤣😅

This reminds me of my dad getting me and my brother going on a *slughunt* every summer and spring evenings in the garden. We were supposed to get 1 sek for every slug. Remember we got over 100 one night and saddly my dad removed the money-making aspect for some reason 😂. I still goes on a 5-15 min hunt every evening for slugs with the same tools. Trash picker and a small hanging pot with salt water in it.Going early in the season really keeps the population down 👍

3:40 The Moat, that's what I did to protect our Hosta. Put it in a huge wooden tub which sits on top of a metal frame, which sits within a sunken concrete pool with a depth of 4" for the water. The only way the hosta survives the summer.

If there is a coffee roasting company in your community (follow your nose!) they may have loads of coffee bean chaff they to get rid of. This organic matter is very dry and fluffy, very lightweight. Slugs and snails cannot glide over it as it sticks to their bodies and slime trails until it becomes too much for them to drag behind them. It works well between rains, composts well (a layer- even a thin layer - of dry coffee chaff blanketing your compost pile or wormbox will also keep fruitflies from entering) and can be had for free.

I live at the top of a pretty steep hill. Every morning I "relocate" snails as far down the hill as I can throw them. If they survive that ride, they deserve to live.

I’ve been genuinely surprised how well beer traps work.

I moved some bags today that had been in a compost bin for quite a while. The slugs underneath were the size of a small mouse....I kid you not 😱

I found that leaving a simple slice of bread at sundown attracts all nearby snails / slugs similar to beer (due to the yeast) but won’t kill them in a horrible way. Just remove the slugs before going to bed and repeat for a few evenings.

The idea of putting the table legs in salt water is brilliant! I would improve it further by adding a shelter of some sort a little above each moat to stop rainwater from diluting it. The other good thing with this idea is that, if it starts to dry out, you only need to add fresh water as the salt will remain during evaporation.

The water moats are an age old technique that was used a lot inside as well. You sometimes see it in museums, where old beds have traps similar to this around the base of their legs, so parasites wouldn‘t climb into the straw mattresses.

Just on the bramble rampart - I have a very mature (i.e. old) barrel cactus on my patio, which seems to attract the slugs. I caught one slithering over it (spines & all) a few days ago.

Beer ponds (cups) work excellent with a covered dome - slugs and snails will find, get drunk and drown. One then needs to dispose of the gucky goo - spray out and refill.

Having horticultural sand around raised beds/growing areas works well!

The RHS released a paper a few years ago that claimed that barriers (such as brambles, egg shells, etc) actually make 0 difference when it comes to snail/slug damage.

in my current garden we have a snail problem, very few slugs but the blackbirds and thrushes are a big help in keeping down the numbers. I grow roses and have recently been using bracken extract to spray for aphids, sawflies etc. As an unexpected benefit Ive discovered that my extract kills snails 😮. Not immediately but they will be stationary quite quickly then by the next day without any sign of life. No foaming or signs of distress, just a quiet death, apparently.Thats a bonus but I will have to keep an eye on the corpses as Im not sure what happens if the blackbirds eat the dead snails.

There are so many slugs this year... I have to say. We left out some plastic and you get 100s under them! I also have been putting ducks in my garden or chickens... they live eatting them! They are so many the other day they wouldn't eat any I found lol they for so full! Win win as I can save on feed and be slug and snail free!

Hi everyone! I would just like to say I've been using Copper tubing simply poked into the pot/ raised garden bed to prevent slugs from attacking my plants, if you can get your hands on old copper wire that should do the trick too, cheers hope this helps!

There is nothing better than a few indian runner ducks. Not only they loves slugs but they also provide eggs and meat for almost no cost. And they are funny to care of.

This will be so helpful as that the sails I have like to eat bell peper leaves to much.

my favourite bit was 'relocate them'. splat!

another one for plant pots, melt some bees wax and add a load of salt to it, then smear it around the rims/bases of your pots. I do all of the above but as i work 3-3 nightshift i'm around for first light with machete in hand, works a treat.

Ok i have been gardening for 50 odd years top tips chop up nettles and brambles use as a mulch water the roots with a pipe let the ground stay dry happy gardening Richardx

Love that moat idea - I’m going to try that on my outside table at the allotment 👍🏻

Beer traps work! I love them.

I collect them in a bucket and take them at 3 am to our neighbour's garden ..................I'm joking ,I take them (because we are the last house on the road before the woods) to the woods I'm not into killing living things,and let them go

I found Nemaslug very time consuming to apply for a couple of years using watering can, then bought a hose end sprayer which didn't have many turns on the screw, so lid fell off when it fell on the ground, so have given up with it. Re slug pubs; I found the slugs don't like cheap lager! They like real ale with all the yeasty smells & no doubt Vitamin B, so now take the drip tray contents from my local pub, which would otherwise go down the sink. Best of all they like dark ales!

I have tried the beer pool and it worked very well! I genuinely think it decreased the whole population for me this year since slugs have not been as big of a problem

Dry loose sand spread around the base of plants is also an easy and effective deterrent against slugs, will need to be refreshed after heavy rains.

That table and salt water tip is giving me hope j can actually grow something!!!

I use sheep wool around the base of the plant. Slugs won't touch it, I get it from the local farmer. Bonus it works like a weed suppressant as well

Buckingham Palace gardeners swear by steel wool to protect the Royal hostas; we were told on a tour last week

Thanks

Tried growing beetroots in a dark rocky place for three years. Got extreme amounts of slugs. Moved to a rocky but sunny place in the same area. No slugs. Perhaps because the rocks now has fewer cracks and the plants are stronger thanks to the sunny spot. In northern scandinavia.

Years ago my dad ran bantam hens on his veg bed in winter. No slugs and happy birds.

Huw, I’m wondering why you don’t like to net your brassicas? I have a huge problem with white cabbage moth.

The moat method works well for mushroom logs ( no salt needed) I use it for my Shiitake logs . Cheers.

'Relocate them' PMSL, I relocate them in Hell with my boot or a pair of scissors.

equally if you sink old guttering close to raised borders and fill it with road salt it will stop them eating your brassicas in the raised borders.

ive been using copper tape around my bench, with all my delicious coleus plants on it.

Thank you for the info, I’ll use them.

Egg shells, etc may not deter slugs, I don't know. But brambles definately discourages our local cats from using our deep beds as litter trays !!

you want to get rid of snails and slugs - get a pie pan and fill it with beer and put it in your flower bed or vegetable garden in the evening - the next morning - if there are slugs in your flower bed or garden, the pie tin that was filled with beer will be filled with slugs and snails - I tried it and it works every time. You will be amazed at how many slugs and snails are in your flower beds and gardens, especially if they never have been treated for them.

When I notice slug damage I literally put on a headlight, set my alarm for 10 p.m. after the sun sets and go out and pick slugs by hand off of my plants. I try to do this once a week for several weeks in a row, especially after a rain. I rarely have a slug problem now.

I like to add pine cones around my plants. The pine cones have rugged stickers all around it that slugs do not like. The brand new green pine cones are the most rugged. They make great compost after they break down

Sorry I am loving the Slug Gone wool pellets... my dog Apollo is fascinated by them... UK wool pellets that help stop slugs and then rot into the soil enriching it.

Hi Hugh - love the channel! I have a polycarbonate polytunnel it does not meet the ground completely. My slugs scale the walls. I go out there in the morning and they are all over the place - above my head - everywhere. I was considering a saline spray to clean the polycarbonate - and leaving it to dry. Do you think that would work?

1:11 Awesome! I've got a plank of wood spare anyway 😊

sharp objects won't work, slugs can easily slode over them, key is to take away their slime or make it confusing and uncomfortable for them

I sometimes feel Im easy to entertain but not easy enough to think laying sticks on the ground is fun 🤠🍻

thanks! a lot of ideas! what about ants? do you have ants problems there ?

Slugs and every kind of pest are food for other predators. I think it was James Wong on GQT i heard saying the most pristine hostas he saw was in the wild in Japan where every population of pest was controlled by their natural predators. The problem with our gardens is we fence out hedgehogs, we net out birds (or have cats to scare them), we kill off other insects and frogs with chemicals, and even removing by hand takes away the food source for the animals we want to encourage. The only thing in either my garden or allotment that i have to seriously protect from slugs and snails is my lupins. During the spring i go out first thing and remove any i find and throw them next door (just a grass lawn). When they get going and it gets hotter they do fine without protection.

Snail and slugs don't like copper, I sometimes lay copper wire around susceptible plants.

For some reason this video appeared to me, and I'm not american and I also do not look for garden videos. But I would be lying if I said I didnt enjoy the video.

I'm a catch and release guy, though the release is generally onto a shed roof for the birds, or into the road. If they manage to get back into the garden, then I'll get them another day, They earned the respite. Hunting seems best when it's warm and wet - during rain, or just after - early morning or late evening. they can go 6feet deep or more during the day, so they can be tricky to get rid of otherwise. I don't like slug pellets though I have lot of pest pressure for neighbouring gardens. So, when it's bad, I put them out on a plastic lid, of some sort, that's covered from the rain and which has a thimble (or other small container) of cheap bear, or yeasted bread starter at the middle. The beer really draws them from all around and they generally succumb to the slug pellets before they can reach it. I don't want slug pellets in the soil; this works well and is disposable. I have slugs crawling all over my blackberries and thorned raspberries - so I'm viewing that suggestion with some doubt - I suspect they are agile enough to work around the thorns. Copper tape, seems to lose efficacy in a season. Nematode, works, but not forever. You need a good population of slugs and snails inthe soil already to feed the nematodes and keep them alive long enough to have any impact on the gastropode population. If I was moving into a new poperty with a really bad infestation, then I would use this and douse that garden every few weeks. Anyway, my main, pest seems to be woodlice. I'm not putting down powders, so my main prophylactic is lots of diversity to get lots of predators in the garden. If anyone has a good, tried and tested, let's say organic method of getting rid of stupidly high populations of woodlice, I would love to know.

Nice ideas. There’s one method I tried that is phenomenally good on snails and slugs. Go buy a six pack of cheap beer and small clear plastic cups. Like you’re getting ready for a party. Small holes around your garden where you place the cups level to the ground where the rim is at soil level or just above. Poor a quarter of beer in the cup. Check in the morning. It will be full of slugs and snails. Continue the process until you don’t have anymore. Killed out the snails in my yard one season, the next season was only babies that I was catching. After that yard was good. And you don’t have to change the beer every day unless it rains.

5:02 god damn that was a smooth ad transition

I have slow worms in my garden - and believe they help me with the slug control.

We seem to have a fair few devil's coach horse beetles - but even they can't cope with the current invasion! Thinking of letting the ducks have supervised access if and when it stops raining. Probably the wettest year here so far and the slugs have multiplied many times over. So much devastation - including in the greenhouse!

Watch out, Slug pushed the gate open at 1:26, mighty persistent these slugs ;)

Just a warning that sea shells can be very very sharp... bare in mind if you have decided to use them

Table legs in salt water, brilliant simplicity. ☘ 💖🙏💫

Swear by beer traps/slug pubs and the nemaslug. Had beer traps last year and it worked a treated. This year we needed more defence thanks to all the rain and wetness. Tried many different things to no avail. Caved in and tried nemaslug, I must say this is working well! Don’t get me wrong we get the occasional slug in the raised bed, however compared to before the population has drastically decreased

I use the moat method but I place a yoghurt carton inside a larger container so the table/staging legs don't deteriorate from contact with the brine. Som useful tips.

I wonder, for those taller raised beds (e.g. the waist-height one shown in the video), if you could construct something that runs along the edge of it (maybe midway up) which contains something to stop slugs/snails from climbing further. Maybe some spikes pointing downwards, or a salt water moat, etc.

Galvanized steel and ducks should be on the list.

Ooh, I made a joke about chickens before I got to that point in the video. They are very effective - just also very destructive. It's part of the charm, really.

Budweiser is the beer of choice for the slugs where I live. Someone in the area dumps their half empty tins along the roadside near the house and they’re full of dead slug gunk within days 😂

The best and most effective long term solution is to use Nematodes, works a treat and is environmentally friendly too. Having beer traps (or yeast and water) to catch them is effective too. If you have ducks, they obviously love a slug 😂

Hi Huw, What kind of watering can is that you got there? I love the sprinkle that it makes. Oh, and you're awesome!!!

I cut the slugs in half with a scissor and pile them near the plants I want to protect. More slugs come to eat the dead ones so it gets really easy. I check every morning and night, with a lantern its easy to spot them at night. Its simple and works really well!

I always start to look out for slugs from mid Feb….St Valentine’s Day!

Slugs and snails ate my dahlias, cucumbers and got to my marigolds as well. Don’t even get me started on my gladiolas last month.. The war is on - I’ve placed yoghurt cups with beer in my pots, and slugs literally climbed up and drowned in it 😇 I will now turn my garden into a beer pool, I have a personal vendetta now 😹

Love the brambles idea 😀

I wanted ducks, wife wanted chickens. Now we have chickens and only one sunflower from 40 planted.

Our nursery table is always covered with an old blanket. Slugs never walk on it

Raised beds harbour slug if made of wood, they are basically a waste of time, especially if you don't keep them full of soil. They do look nice though. I can't imagine going around with a torch at night is sustainable for anything other than the smallest plot. I have yet to be convinced why we can't use slug pellets anymore. Probably the sat behind a desk committee.

Ducks love to eat slugs. They don’t pull up your garden like chickens do.

No need to kill. Use strong espresso coffee powder...5/5 or 8/10 which ever you can buy and not weaker coffee bean powder. That is the strength that no slug likes.

I use boards or cardboard and relocate the slugs. Also I have a couple toads that live in my strawberry patch and they keep the slugs and snails down😀

1st~~ thank you for the great tips!!!

I been using egg shells for decades,does the job

Slugs destroyed my crops last year, i would've cried if not for wasting all my tears on buxom beauties. This year i bought a weed burner and host a french bbq each evening.

Great advice about hedgehogs :)

Can you recommend ways to keep earwigs out of cabbage? Thx!

How about squirrels Huw? Any tips or videos for that?

Hi Huw thaks forthe video, i had beer plates out in my raised beds forslugs investaton ad a nigt aimal like possum, raccoon, fox, skunk, cat came nd drank the beer lollolololo!

From experience it is not good to fill a beer trap to the top as slugs can often access the beer without danger of falling in and you've just got drunk slugs rampaging round then when happy hour is finished.

🌱🌱🌱 we have some violent slugs this year

I stick snails & slugs into my compost that has a lid ,make them work for a living 😅

I have some leopard slugs, they are good slugs, which kill the bad slugs. So make sure to look for them,they are mainly brown with black stripes and or spots. I need more of these 😊

Built a bramble moat, next morning my sunflower seedling was shredded.

Best shallow fry, with paprika.

Nemaslugs are not allowed in the US. I staple copper mesh (Amazon) on the edges of my raised beds. In the US garter snakes love to eat them. So make a snake habitat, Just don't wear krok's in the garden, I had one crawl up into the shoe with my foot in it.

You picked a plant up in your polly tunnel that looked to me had be eaten alive leaves

And here's an inspiring thing ...the more you remove/ kill those Gastros...the less they breed for next season, so you will dramatically reduce from year to year after only a fervid first year.....so go gettum, Rex!

I have lots of ants in my polytunnel and also in my mini orchard, which has already brought an army of aphids and destroyed my plum and pear produce however should I get ants from my polytunnel which has tomatoes, aubergine and celery

Beer traps have been really effective in my garden. However I go about it much less fancy: just an empty yoghurt container with beer placed in the garden. No need to dig a hole, or put little grasses on top. The slugs will come anyway.

I have some copper tape that I glued around a few pots with "my difficult darlings" (pepper, cucumber etc). It's expensive, but keeps forever. In my garden I successfully created small fences from copper wire that I harvested from old electronics (motors and transformers have hundreds of meters wore wound up). These fences were only about 3cm (an inch) high. Bamboo fenceposts at the corners and every half a meter or so. Al lot of work, and rather flimsy: lasted only one season. It works, but I found it not worth the offort. Might help others, though.