@Irisfreundin I thought it's the opposite, that the jungle of my garden invites them to come in great numbers. It's everything but tidy 😀 I don't mind planting some sacrifice plants to distract them from the rest, or as you suggest, give them the dying leaves. That's a neat idea! I have no problem with sharing with the rest of the animals, the issue is in them eating absolutely everything.
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Not much left after the slug-o-calipse, but hey, who said that half a year of work must inevitably pay off? Fun is in the process. Now researching what can be planted in June, and how to humanely repel those slimy creatures. What works for you? (even partially, please no killing advice)
#gardening #amateur

@karo

I collect the slugs and throw them far away. I also water in the morning, so they don't have a nice moist environment in the evenings. It kinda works. They killed most of our physalis plants when they were little, so I'm a little envious of yours.

@fritzoids The plants were already quite big when planted, maybe that's why they survived. Everything else is gone: cucumbers, pumpkins, zucchini, watermelons, peppers, wild tomatoes...
I don't live close to the garden, so I'm thinking of applying a combination of mechanical stoppers: collars around plants, "fences" around the beds, coffee or sawdust around...

@karo Semenody recently recommended short copper pipes around the base of the plans. Or a copper fence. But maybe you have enough of copr from work?

https://odpuzovace-zvirat.heureka.cz/wenko-zabrana-proti-slimakum-2-x-8m/ (a quick googled example, not a specific suggestion)