50 Ways to Kill a Slug

Serious & silly ways to outwit the garden's number one enemy

Sarah Ford author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Octopus Publishing Group

Published:29th Jan '26

£7.99

Available for immediate dispatch.

50 Ways to Kill a Slug cover

In a carefully manicured garden, amid the pristine borders, prowls the irksome pest...

Are you being bullied by a mollusc that slimes all over your garden and munches through your favourite delphinium? Have your tender seedlings been devoured in the night by a nocturnal predator? Are you worried about using slug pellets for fear of endangering local wildlife? Take a stand against slugs with 50 alternative, organic, natural, chemical and humane solutions to slug problems. 50 Ways to Kill a Slug shows you how to trick, flick and frighten slugs out of your garden, leaving you with blissfully pest-free plants without having to resort to harmful chemical options.

Stop slugs in their tracks and make slimy trails and nibbled leaves a thing of the past!

This newly updated bestselling book, is now presented as a small format paperback edition, beautifully packaged in a vibrant leafy green. It is the perfect gift for expert and novice gardeners alike.

Contents include:
- Know your enemy: Their strengths and weaknesses
- Prepare the battleground: Start by eliminating their favourite habitats
- Gather your weapons: Chopsticks, beer, salt, and many more
- Enter into Combat: prevention, barriers, traps, baits, organic ideas, a taste of their own medicine, biological allies, simply silly

ISBN: 9780600639879

Dimensions: 144mm x 104mm x 10mm

Weight: 108g

96 pages