Sorry Slugs, I HATE you

Unlike us, birds and insects are not bound by fences or yards.

I've found snails to be prevalent in my garden and while I know any attempt to control them is ultimately futile I can discourage them from our garden through persistent deterrents.

• Know you have snails.
• Locate exactly where they hang out when they aren't eating your pretty plants.
• React in whatever way makes the most sense.

Know

Here's how I know I have snails: dried up trails of mucas like this. Ew.

Locate

• You know where they've been, now where did those slugs go? Follow those long skinny slimy paths to the nearby rocks, planters, and any other cool wet place.
• If you'd rather catch them in the act and you've got night lighting in your garden, you can collect them on plants and the soils surface
• I haven't yet figured out what their babies look like, nor have I dug slugs up, but I imagine this is what I'll be learning as I read more.

React

This is where trial and error and personal preference comes into play. Here are my notes:

Eggshells - slugs find the sharp edges uncool so I'm surrounding my precious rose plant with them (fingers crossed).
SlugSlaughter - I killed a few snails through smushing...oddly they eat their dead so this succeeded in attracting slugs to a carcass buffet (gross)
Eat em!- No joke there are sites with instructions on how you can prepare & eat slugs. How French.
Poison - Haven't tried this yet, but I'm intrigued!
Beer - legend has it that if you put bowls of beer, slugs will drown themselves. I didn't have this kind of luck but maybe they don't like Sam Adams.