A fort-knox for slug targeted seedlings?

Evening all,

It seems that the flowers (marigolds, cosmos etc) I have sown in seed trays in an attempt to attract beneficial wildlife always seem to get totally bull dozed by the slugs and snails.

And so I was thinking of creating a fort knox seed area underneath my two squared metre cloches where I can simply put seeds sown in seed trays and hope that the following measures will stop the slugs in their tracks:

1. laying the seed trays on a bed of sharp sand(?) or a similar product to help make slugging over it difficult.
2. using organic slug pellets sprinkled within and around the area
3. having a few beer traps within the IPZ (intensive protection zone) LOL.

This area will be reserved only for plants which I keep losing to those slimy critters.

Any ideas if this will work/any suggestions?

Many thanks,

Samuel

 

Shavings(wood),ash prinkled round them and garlic spray to deter,keep the trays off the ground plus beer traps
ive lost half my nasturtuiums to them this week

 

How about a "hanging garden" approach, such as I used here for some peas? It would be difficult and have limited access for the slimey critters. You could suspend a scaffold board and place seed trays on that.



Steve...

 

On a tray of steel mesh raised above the ground with the feet wrapped with copper tape and standing in beer traps or something else they wont go through.