Organic Slug Control

There's no silver bullet for getting rid of slugs. You need to combine the classic Integrated Pest Management [IPM] techniques of cultural, mechanical, and chemical controls. Does that sound too academic? It's actually very practical. And some of it involves wearing your bathrobe in your garden! Watch Tricia control slugs with the full range of organic methods.

Monitor on night patrol
Hang out in your garden and look for unwanted visitors -- at night, as well as in the daytime. When the sun's out, look for the silvery trails of slugs. When the moon's out, get your flashlight and go on a slug hunt. In the great garden cycle of life and death, slugs are a tasty treat for any backyard chickens you know.Remove the Welcome mat
Back in daylight, close up happy hiding places when you take away scraps of wood or cardboard, clean out weeds and debris, and pull up all that ivy (rats love to nest in ivy, too) and other dense groundcovers.Get into drip irrigation
Yes, one more reason to install drip irrigation. Slugs don't want to cruise over dry soil, they want damp slickness. Overhead watering creates the moist surfaces that make life go so very smoothly for slugs.