I've had good results here in Seattle (giant and lots of slugs country) by
wrapping the frame of my GH in an inch wide copper strip then also wrapping
the legs of the benches in the same. I almost never find any inside (and
there are LOTS outside) and most but not all of the time, I can attribute it
to a plant I've brought in from outside.

"K Barrett" wrote in message
et...
That's like the line from 'Aliens': lay down a supressing fire and
withdraw.
(The platoon is getting hacked to death and that was the best advice the
Lt
could come up with.) Better advice was 'Nuke them from space, its the only
way to be sure.'

I'm a nuke them from space kinda guy. I like to be sure. When I built my
GH
I kept in mind one of Aaron Hicks (no relation) posts when he wrote about
a
tree ouside a university greenhouse housing so many slugs that one day it
just sort of collapsed in on ittself from all the eaten crud. So I left a
clear zone of 2-3 feet around the GH so slugs would dehydrate before ever
crossing this desert zone. Low and behold, they still made it in. The
suckers must pack for the journey. ("There's a promised land over there
Cornelia, and *we can make it*") So don't believe the 'they'll dehydrate'
theory. Believe the line from 'Jurassic Park': Nature will find a way.

I'm reasonably sure these new slugs didn't hatch from eggs, nor did they
come in on new purchases. And, while I'm not as fastidious as Wilford in
using bleach in the GH for algae control, I do spray it around
occasionally
and that chases any lurkers out from under benches and out of pots. Its
been
quite a while since I've seen any more slugs. When I do I pick them up and
toss them onto the patio concrete to fry in the noonday sun. (take that)

After that I use any of the baits that have been mentioned here. The
higher
in metaldehyde the better result.

K Barrett


"Martin" wrote in message
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you're supposed to spread diatomaceous earth on the ground where slugs
play and
it will kill them by dehydrating them.