Have this vision now of all these little drunk slugs

Substitute this for whisky and I'll be there

and me.We could sit back and watch them on karaoke,singing I've had the SLIME of my life!!

but actually it's working, though really disgusting
to see those slimy, dissolved, dunken slugs in the beer trap left

but at least, they had an happy drunken dead

or go and catch a hedgehog, build him a nice place to stay, that it will stay and it will enjoy to keep your garden clean of slugs ans snails

another solution would be Indian runner Ducks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Runner_Duck

Love hedgehogs!And those Indian runner Ducks, only the female quakes!Be good if that worked on humans

that's how it should be! that would be only right

I heard about this last year when I potted up all the bulbs and plants for my neice in her new house. It apparently works very well and also looks quite nice!

Must tell you what was recommended to me when I lived in Devon and was PLAGUED with snails and slugs and had a whole big part of my back garden made over to gravel with pots on it that I used to rearrange and move around as they came in and out of flower etc.

WD40! Yes good old WD40. I was told if you spray it round the outside of the pots the slimey things wont go in them. I dutifully did this. I was then unable to move ANY of my pots for ages afterwards because they were too slippery to get a grip on!

In the same garden I grew strawberries in hanging baskets on big iron brackets on the wall. Slime enemies even managed to get to those! Up the wall, along the bracket and into the pots! Hate the things but, owning a large tortoise at the time could not put propreitary pellets etc. down.

Another thing that works is beer bottles laid on their side with a little beer left in them. Altho' I am not sure this doesn't ATTRACT them to start with! And for sure it does nothing to enhance the visual appeal of your garden - not unless you are going for the 'CHAV' look!

Oh, what happened to the tortoise?I have one.

She is almost 100 yrs old and living in Devon! Lady from the vet lab where I worked was going to take her to the forever sanctuary in the west country but fell in love with her and kept her - it's quite a story I will tell another time.

I was not allowed to import her into Cyprus - bit stupid as she was a Med Spur Thighed! She has a lovely life now though - living in the lap of luxury!

Look forward to hearing her story, I love them