Sandra in Minnesota

Looks like a major infestation. Call in the ducks!!!

RobertaMarie

Try mixing some household ammonia in water (1/2 cup to a quart of water) and spray them with a spray bottle or garden sprayer. They spit green foam and die. The diluted mixture doesn't hurt your plants but it sure kills the slugs and snails. Works for me when they eat my iris and violets.
Good luck!

PATTIESPEARL

salt will kill the slugs, but it will kill the plant too!

Momsmurf

Bury a small plastic container (or glass jar) up to the rim in a inconspicious spot in your garden, pour in cheap beer - maybe 3/4 full.

Slug will migrate to the beer, fall in and drown happy.

IBQUILTIN

Put a couple of pie tins of beer out there. They crawl in, get drunk and can't get out. Or sprinkly with a lot of salt

ThayerRags

Anybody know what it costs to rent a duck these days?

CD in Oklahoma

Arleners

I've heard the beer in a lid works best. They get drunk and drown. The salt burns them to death.

The other thing to try is the dirt you buy for pool filters. Diatomaceous earth. It has very sharp particles and the slugs and snails don't want to crawl over it.

MrsM

That's what we do. Atleast they die happy. :roll:

patmas57

My ducks looooved slugs! They would come running from across the yard if I called them and I'd have to watch my fingers as they snatched the nasty things from my hands (but I hated the super-sticky slime handling slugs left). We used to have monster slugs, but after a year of duck patrol, I could barely find little ones for them. I found a bigger, better home for my ducks (with a pond) last summer, and I really have noticed the increase in slugs (and crane flies) this year without them rummaging about in the yard.

Favorite Fabrics

Do ducks eat snails too? Or do they not like the crunchy shells?