Q&A for How to Get Rid of Garden Slugs

Yes. It is recommended to add a few drops of the essential oil to a spray bottle full of water and spritz over infected plants, reapplying as necessary.

Sluggo pellets are approved for use in any and all horticulture situations, including gardens, pots, soil, sand, etc.

Yes, coffee grounds will repel slugs since caffeine is toxic to them. Slugs will avoid coming into contact with coffee grounds at all costs, so spreading a circle of grounds around plants you want to save can be more effective.

Most slugs are considered pests that can eat vegetables, fruit, leaves and seedlings. If you see slugs on your plants, chances are they're eating them. On the other hand, slugs prefer to eat dead or rotting plants so they can be beneficial decomposers, so if you only see them around your compost pile they probably aren't a concern.

No, anytime is fine.

Epsom salts reportedly work against slugs and as a fertilizer!

Use coarse sand because it is more harsh than fine sand and will create a better chance the slugs will be harmed.

Slugs are mostly made up of water. Salt acts as a drying agent and absorbs the mucus that provides the coat of a slug (very much like the mucus in the human nose) almost immediately. The salt will continue to dry up the water-based mass of the slug quickly through a process called desiccation.

Paprika will not do anything to slugs. Instead, try crushing fresh garlic and soaking it in water to produce a strong garlic spray. Then, spray the plants you want to protect. Snails and slugs hate this and will leave your plants alone.

Untreated straw mulch in every patch, used to build new soil creates moisture and darkness, in which slugs thrive and conquer. Sluggo certified for organic use works well, one containing iron phosphate and Spinosad A&D. You can also use concentrate called Monterey garden spray. It contains the natural spinosad. Monterey works slightly, but is better for cutworms and catepillars. If you must, try Organic Sluggo.

Yes, a solution of one part vinegar and one part water should do the trick, if not, skip the water. Just be careful as vinegar can act as an herbicide in your garden, don't spray it directly on plants.

The best solution is putting on some gloves on (can also be done without them) and pick them up. You could feed them to the birds or just take them away from your garden. An alternative would be to buy a spray to kill them.

Yes.

I would advise not deterring worms in your grass, as they aerate the soil and add nutrition from consuming grass clippings. They also aerate the lawn and help drainage, which deters moss. They build better nutritional soil. So all in all, they benefit your lawn.

Find where they're entering, and sprinkle that area with a slug deterrent as suggested above.

It's a snail, and it's no better for your garden than a slug.

Use any of the above suggestions. They should still work. Slugs often hide during the heat of the day and then do their damage at night.

Slugs are hermaphrodites (have male and female reproductive anatomy). Slugs mate using either one of their reproductive organs. After a mating session resulting in an exchange of sperm, an impregnated slug will find a hole or hide under a log and will lay multiple eggs (usually 25-30) within only a few days of mating.

Yes, it's very effective but you have to continue to place the beer around the plants nightly.

This is not so effective. I crushed the eggshells and spread them around the plants, and I still found a snail that had managed to cross over the crushed eggshells.

No, however slug Tropicana will work (water mixed with salt).

No, it may actually attract more slugs.

Yes, you can. Make sure you wash the shells first.

There is no need for Sluggo pellets! Just grab some salt and water in a bowl, flick your slugs and snails in and watch them do back stroke.

Yes. Put salt down on their trail and see if you can find the source where they entered and close up the hole.

Yes, but it's not good for the soil.

If used as recommended, no.

Sprinkle kosher salt in the vicinity surrounding the cage. Wait 1 day for results.

The theory is the the jagged edges will deter slugs lest they lacerate their bellies; however, in practice, eggshells do not seem to damage or deter most slugs.

No, they won't, unfortunately.