The slugs in my northern Maine garden are HUGE. I've tried the beer traps, using boards for them to hide under, just about everything but it's been very frustrating. I've never been able to grow lettuce, but interplanting the seedlings in my garlic bed yielded a great crop this year. The garlic apparently repelled the slugs and shaded the lettuce plants from hot summer sun. Sluggo,or Garden Safe Slug and Snail Bait, works good, too. You have to reapply the granules after a rain or every two weeks. Supposedly the active ingredient (iron phosphate) lures the slugs then kills them when they eat it. Safe to use around pets tho I don't allow my dogs in the vegetable garden. Takes a few days to work but does cut down the population quite a bit.
The slugs in my northern Maine garden are HUGE. I've tried the beer traps, using boards for them to hide under, just about everything but it's been very frustrating. I've never been able to grow lettuce, but interplanting the seedlings in my garlic bed yielded a great crop this year. The garlic apparently repelled the slugs and shaded the lettuce plants from hot summer sun. Sluggo,or Garden Safe Slug and Snail Bait, works good, too. You have to reapply the granules after a rain or every two weeks. Supposedly the active ingredient (iron phosphate) lures the slugs then kills them when they eat it. Safe to use around pets tho I don't allow my dogs in the vegetable garden. Takes a few days to work but does cut down the population quite a bit.