How to stop slugs and snails

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If like me you enjoy gardening you will know that dreadful feeling when you have planted your little seedlings only to return the next day to see that they have been eaten be slugs or snails. 

Facts About Slugs: 

    Slugs can cause huge damage to vegetation and are capable of consuming several times their bodyweight in a very short period of time.
    Most eat decaying vegetation, but their favourite plants include Hostas, Marigolds, Dahlias, Tulips, Lavenders and Snapdragons, and of course, tender young salad crops.
    Although active throughout the year, slugs are particularly troublesome in Spring and Autumn when warmer weather combined with damp conditions encourages them out.
    Slugs dislike rain, but they need to keep moist as they require water for reproduction and movement so are more active when it is wet and emerge as soon as rain stops.
    Slugs prefer to live in cool, damp, shady places among plants and like to crawl into crevices or beneath stones, pots, plastic, etc.
    The best time to hunt for slugs is 2 - 3 hours after sunset as they tend to feed at night.
    Mature slugs are hermaphrodites and are able to breed throughout the year, laying anything between 20 - 100 eggs.

Do not fret there are a number of natural methods to deter  and destroy these little munchers.
Firstly you can make a physical barrier by placing crushed egg shells, sawdust or wood shavings around your seedlings and plants. For establish plants you can spray a mixture of coffee syrup made form mixing ground coffee and water. 
Slug like to go out for a meal at night so you can take a torch and go and find them enjoying themselves on your plants. Once you spy a little muncher you can put salt on them which I understand draws water out of them and they die.  I have personally not used this method because I have read that the salt causes the slugs pain. 


Alongside trying to deter the slugs and snails II also use slug traps which I buy from Wikaniko.   http://www.wikaniko.com/index.php?distributor=greenerearth&redirect=http://www.wikaniko.com/shop/garden-outdoors/tools/slug-traps.html

To use the traps 
 Dig a hole the size of the trap base in the area to be treated.
  Each trap will attract slugs and snails from a distance of up to two metres.
  Put the trap base into the hole so that the rim is level with the ground.
  For Poison-Free baits such as beer, yeast dissolved in water, ripe fruit or vegetables in soapy or salty water. Fill trap within 2cm of the trap rim
  
 Supplemental fruit and vegetable attractants can also be added.
    Carefully place the lid on to the trap base.
    Check the trap regularly and dispose of contents by removing the lid and carefully lifting the trap out of the hole.
    Rinse and refill the trap every few days.



Pack of 2

http://www.wikaniko.com/index.php?distributor=greenerearth&redirect=http://www.wikaniko.com/shop/garden-outdoors/tools/slug-traps.html