Last year the entire contents of gh were munched.... Ok, fine, t'is the past

Just been to have a look this afternoon, and my cucumbers have been munched, only the stem left... and the 1st baby leaf of some toms

I think it's snails rather than slugs Any tips, plwwweease, I don't want to lose the lot again

slug pellets !! ... lots of grit or egg shells or bark chips !!

... or I read some where you could cut up plastic water bottles using pinching shears and cut ziz-zag edges on plastic rings that slimies don't like crawling across !

I just go round collecting mine and then rehome them in the nearest nature reserve but I am a kaftan wearing veggie pinko animal rightist liberal.

But I never see any Am thinking of doing raid at dawn

The plants are on slatted staging... still pondering how to surround them with eggshells

I bought a roll of copper tape and have put it round the potting shed window (controlled by an auto-vent) so the little blighters can't get in.

Don't know if your gh is a permie one or one of the mini ones: snails ate the lot of my mini gh cabbages last year when they were hardening off. If it's a mini, I suggest getting hold of copper pipe and bending it into a rectangle the size and shape of the gh base, and then putting it on the ground around it. Anchor if need be. They won't be able to crawl over it. If it's up against a wall, put the pipe up the sides too, so there's a barrier everywhere. I have yet to do it, but it's on the list...

moonbells

T'is a permanent one MB... Thanks for all the ideas Looking at copper tape and/or copper matting

We put slug pellets round edge of base , doesn't help when they are in though.
Last year had to go out several times in the dark with torch to catch the munchers as didn't want to put pellets on the compost in the pots. Wehave aluminum staging with trays so I fill them with sharp sand which also helps with watering in summer.

Good hunting

Hold the little buggas at bay till I am down with me torch and pointy stick, I enjoy it

I can just imagine Dom with a chair and a whip. Get back you varmints!

wanna borrow a chicken?

would the 'burning chilli powder' thing work on snails?

I've just been on my 'slimey' hunt... again Caught loads All the time being watched by Mr. Toad... Actually its probably a Mrs cos she's big

Left the container next to Mrs Toad... Now worried they'll all escape cos she seems a bit slow, like

Poured myself a glass of wine cos this gardening lark is wayyyyyyy too stressful

Dom - the slimies will escape if you just leave them in the container - I caught loads one day last summer (hiding under the black plastic I'd put on my veg patch ) so I put them in a trug which was half full of water in the hope they'd drown . Half an hour later nearly all of them were halfway up the sides and out of the water

I think you should put Mrs Toad IN the container and put a lid on (with air holes ) so she gets the message