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Not on my pumpkins, but on my hostas! I've had my shade garden for four years and this is the first year they've attacked it. I've been using beer in a dish, and that catches a few. What other tricks or products do you guys recommend?

7/22/2003 10:47:01 AM

Grants Pass, Oregon

Brigitte

I use snail and slug bait with great success. Then men here will probably say dont waste the beer on the slugs :)

7/22/2003 10:50:43 AM

Key West, FL

poison

7/22/2003 2:09:16 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Chickens love slugs, will trade chickens for Turkeys. :)

7/22/2003 2:21:51 PM

thanx guys, i ended up buying some Ortho "bug geta" for snails, slugs, and ants. we'll see what the slugs think of the tasty pellets and fresh beer to wash it down.

7/22/2003 4:42:38 PM

Rm, Tn

We use Dead line on our hostas. You only apply it twice a year,once in spring and again in the middle of summer. We have quite a few hostas and it works for us.

7/22/2003 7:59:16 PM

Long Island,New York

Brigitte...Bugetta works great and I use it around the house and patch very successfully. However, Ive found that the smaller (here they are white and small tan ones) slugs are the ones that eat the hostas...and they dont go down on the ground so much to get the pelletslike the big grey spotted slugs do. There's a spray version of that pesticide that you can spray on the leaves that would be more effective and likely minimize those ugly holes they leave.....tremmor can name it Im sure....G

7/22/2003 9:13:57 PM

Montoursville, PA

I have had great success using Gardens Alive, Escar-Go. It is a natural product that bio-degrades to fertilizer. It makes them stop eating.

Have tested in Hostas also and find the results very pleasing. I personally think it works better than the poison base bait and kill products.

Hostas can be opened up by cutting size and reworking for better air circulation. That is likely why you are now seeing damage, for the first time, on the Hostas. We can not do that with our pumpkins. They do not like nice dry understory conditions.

You can clean up your area but they may have a sustained march from your neighbors property to you. This is the nature of the critters. Keep it on your property. Give them a sick belly and starve the suckers. Drink the beer! Place any secondary product that appears on your compost pile.

7/22/2003 11:25:13 PM

Ga.

saw this on another site..Might be worth a try...
SNAIL DETERRENT: Place crushed egg shells or course sand around the base of plants if you are having a problem with snails or slugs. They don't like crawling over the sharp edges and the shells are good for the soil!

7/30/2003 8:19:02 PM