If you want to keep slugs away from your plants then get some ducks. As soon as we let them out in the morning

they are off, rooting around the raised beds with their rounded beaks. They are searching for slugs and snails and they feast on them.

If you have “Netflix” then try and watch the documentary The Magic Pill. Towards the end the filmmakers talk to farmers and one of the interviewees explains how she got into ducks to keep her garden slug free. It really works and the bonus is a flock of adorable and comic, Call ducks.