Slugs! 🤢

[Winfort Lofts]

Hey all!

There's been some great discussions on here of late! So I thought I ask some advice!

I have been told that getting slugs in the loft can cause problems in the birds!

I believe they are carriers of hair worm and the likes?

So what do you do to keep on top of them and keep them out of your lofts?

[NeilA]

My shed about a foot high so I don’t ever get them inside
My mother who was a keen gardener use to use copper tape around her pots or certain ones . I remember her doing it for a while but I’m not sure if she was just trying it or it actually worked
She used to put something in a jar or can that they would be tempted with then drowned in the liquid but I’m not sure what it was

[Buster121]

My shed about a foot high so I don’t ever get them inside
My mother who was a keen gardener use to use copper tape around her pots or certain ones . I remember her doing it for a while but I’m not sure if she was just trying it or it actually worked
She used to put something in a jar or can that they would be tempted with then drowned in the liquid but I’m not sure what it was

Neil i get them inside my lofts and even on the roof of it

[Buster121]

My shed about a foot high so I don’t ever get them inside
My mother who was a keen gardener use to use copper tape around her pots or certain ones . I remember her doing it for a while but I’m not sure if she was just trying it or it actually worked
She used to put something in a jar or can that they would be tempted with then drowned in the liquid but I’m not sure what it was

I had the copper all along the bottom of my lofts and still they get in, i get a good shovel full up most morning put them in recycling bin with grass cuttings etc

[Buster121]

Hey all!

There's been some great discussions on here of late! So I thought I ask some advice!

I have been told that getting slugs in the loft can cause problems in the birds!

I believe they are carriers of hair worm and the likes?

So what do you do to keep on top of them and keep them out of your lofts?

hope some one has a good idea because i have tried most things and still get them

[CHARLTON34]

My shed about a foot high so I don’t ever get them inside
My mother who was a keen gardener use to use copper tape around her pots or certain ones . I remember her doing it for a while but I’m not sure if she was just trying it or it actually worked
She used to put something in a jar or can that they would be tempted with then drowned in the liquid but I’m not sure what it was

Afternoon Neil, I think that would of been beer M8 in the pots seen it done on gardening programmes, copper tape, on the outside of the pots & also with Hosta plants etc covered the drain hole in the bottom of pots with fine gauge nylon netting so slugs can't get in from the bottom, maybe netting is the answer if they are getting in door window vents etc.

[NeilA]

My shed about a foot high so I don’t ever get them inside
My mother who was a keen gardener use to use copper tape around her pots or certain ones . I remember her doing it for a while but I’m not sure if she was just trying it or it actually worked
She used to put something in a jar or can that they would be tempted with then drowned in the liquid but I’m not sure what it was

Afternoon Neil, I think that would of been beer M8 in the pots seen it done on gardening programmes, copper tape, on the outside of the pots & also with Hosta plants etc covered the drain hole in the bottom of pots with fine gauge nylon netting so slugs can't get in from the bottom, maybe netting is the answer if they are getting in door window vents etc.

I think it was beer now you say it mate

[NeilA]

My shed about a foot high so I don’t ever get them inside
My mother who was a keen gardener use to use copper tape around her pots or certain ones . I remember her doing it for a while but I’m not sure if she was just trying it or it actually worked
She used to put something in a jar or can that they would be tempted with then drowned in the liquid but I’m not sure what it was

I had the copper all along the bottom of my lofts and still they get in, i get a good shovel full up most morning put them in recycling bin with grass cuttings etc

That’s mental
Is the loft bone dry on the floor

[Buster121]

My shed about a foot high so I don’t ever get them inside
My mother who was a keen gardener use to use copper tape around her pots or certain ones . I remember her doing it for a while but I’m not sure if she was just trying it or it actually worked
She used to put something in a jar or can that they would be tempted with then drowned in the liquid but I’m not sure what it was

I had the copper all along the bottom of my lofts and still they get in, i get a good shovel full up most morning put them in recycling bin with grass cuttings etc

That’s mental
Is the loft bone dry on the floor

Don't mean in the loft Neil sorry, I meant on the garden every morning basically get a shovel full up

[Buster121]

I also used the slug traps you put in the ground used to be full every day