The words, though thankfully not the slugs, have been taken out of my mouth. They are here!
In my wild garden there is plenty of vegetation for us all to share, including slugs snails and puppy dogs’ tails of every hue. The only place where I don’t want them is in the bowl containing Fran’s plants from SF via @JaneJones, and thus there is a special stick there so that I can flick them out into the general undergrowth when they appear.
I even save their lives from time to time when I see them progessing slowly across the concrete terrasse, fearful of the dogs treading on them. Again, they get flicked into the wild environment.
But a word of warning, don’t pick them up with bare fingers (would anyone really do that? Well I did ) as the slime is a bugger to wash off. I know exactly why they move so slowly, the stuff sticks like glue.
From babyhood, I heard a wide variety of musical stuff… mostly classical and then, when we had TV, there was Fred Astaire and similar stuff to lighten the mood… and then the world turned and we had The Beatles, Elvis, The Stones et al…
Our youngster has just turned 50… regularly attends Heavy Metal gigs (despite the rains)… and, in other circumstances, I’ve seen that same youngster suddenly break into her version of a FredA/Ginger Rogers tap dance sequence… wafting her bemused partner around and around… she obviously has happy musical memories from her childhood with crazy parents…
Age doesn’t matter… the music goes round and round…
Apparently, slugs often enter through the drainage holes in the bottom of pots and then make their way up through the soil thus avoiding your defences. The answer is said to be to place some very fine nylon mesh in the bottom of the pot, then add your drainage crocks, and then the soil / compost to plant into. The physical barrier of the mesh stops the slugs from entering.
I haven’t tried it myself yet but from the experiences of certain TV gardening experts it certainly does seem to work.
Worth a try anyway.
Thanks @Robert_Hodge - you reminded us that we have also seen this method used by, we think, Adam Frost on Gardeners World. It makes sense. So all it needs is for us to repot the hostas using the fine mesh at the bottom of the pot. Voila! slug and snail free plants!
) as the slime is a bugger to wash off. I know exactly why they move so slowly, the stuff sticks like glue. 
