There are LOTS of politically correct ways of dealing with slugs and snails (I particularly like the one that goes :"bury empty beer cans with the tops removed about half full of water so the tops are level with the soil and the little buggers will drown" (Emptying the beer cans is the fun part - finding the cans stuffed with drowned slugs is also enjoyable!) Most of them work pretty well and in my experience are best used for all-around slug control during the growing season. BUT, when you situation is truly an invasion (can you walk across you garden on the tops of slugs so closely packed together that your feet do not touch the ground?) then there is nothing like Deadline. Get a bottle and squirt a line of the purple stuff around all your plants. It will dry to a dark purple line that is not easily visible against the soil and, once dried, does not seem to be disturbed by rain or watering. You reward will be coming out every morning and seeing a ring of emply snail shells around each plant in your garden. (The slugs leave no trace when then die - my provate fantasy is that they quietly melt and so enrich the soil thus feeding the very plants they sought to dine upon - there some sort of deep message in that.) One application a season should do it 'tho you may wish to reapply after two months or so just to reassure yourself. Peace, love and peppers Lorraien On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, DICK KNUTH wrote: > I know that we have had hundreds of posts about slugs ov the last few > years, but I was never bothered with them in Iowa. In Minnesota, I'm up to > my belt in them. Help! They are in the peppers, the tomatos, and the > hosta. What works best? > Dick In Eagan >