New slug control

[annew]

Has anyone tried this new slug and snail control?
http://www.grazers.co.uk/products/gardens-allotments/g2-slugs-snails/

[Martinr]

mmmmmm...begs the questions 1)what is it? and 2) how does it work?. Website appears waffly and cuddly and doesn't tell you what the active ingredients are. I'd love to be proved wrong but I'm sceptical

[Carolyn]

I haven't tried Grazers, but this year I am trying Strulch, which is a mineralised straw mulch. I have just started to put it on all the areas where I have hostas or cardiocrinums. I will soon know if it is effective at deterring slugs. It will help keep down the weeds anyway, so it could be a winner in two ways!

[Graeme]

mmmmmm...begs the questions 1)what is it? and 2) how does it work?. Website appears waffly and cuddly and doesn't tell you what the active ingredients are. I'd love to be proved wrong but I'm sceptical

Grazers contains calcium chloride solution - 10% CaO+0.1% UN65 and other ingredients in a ready to use solution with water

Looks like its based on Calcium - might give it a try this year on my dahlias as it is not that expensive

[Hannelore]

Having cultivated snails for many years and fed them properly I don't have so many slugs in my garden that they can do any harm. Snails eat the eggs of slugs and extinct them this way. The only problem is that they have to be fed. They prefer limp leaves, if they have enough of it, they never eat living ones. But if the garden is perfectly "clean" they eat everything they can get.
Who understands German can also read it here: https://www.nabu.de/umwelt-und-ressourcen/oekologisch-leben/balkon-und-garten/gartentipps/00546.html
That's the page of the German Association for nature and environment.

Hannelore

[Lawrence]

I think Which Gardening? carried out tests on snail and slug controls and found that using Grazers INCREASED slug damage! The article referred to in the Daily Telegraph also suggests that slugs prefer plants that are high in calcium!
I wish I could find an effective control Anne, I have a large collection of Hostas, and since liquid slug clear has been taken of the market, they have really suffered

[annew]

Have ordered some to experiment with. Thanks for your responses. Hope it works!

[John85]

You could try spraying with caffeine
Spraying with absinth"tea" is also efficient but of course easier to do in spring or summer when there are plenty of leaves available

[Cfred72]

You could try spraying with caffeine
Spraying with absinth"tea" is also efficient but of course easier to do in spring or summer when there are plenty of leaves available

How do you make this famous "absinthe tea"? How do you apply it? How long is the treatment effective?