"Mentally Jones II¾" writes:
I have a severe slater problem - they are eating just about
everything.
At night the ground is crawling with them & they even climb up the
plants then eat the leaves off.

Your worries haven't started yet. When they've consumed all your
plants they're sure to come looking for you.

How can I control them without poisons (if possible).

I'll send you a dozen funnel web spiders if you like; they make short
work of slaters. But only one at a time.

If you have plenty of concrete pathway maybe you could go out at night
and hoover them up as they cross the paths if they are migrating from
bushland into your garden. (But a flamethrower would be more fun.) Or
are they coming from within your compost?

Slaters have only short legs, so maybe you could enclose a few most
prized plants with a portion of plastic softdrink bottle -- with top
and bottom removed and pushed into the soil so slaters can't bulldoze
their way under it?

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John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)