Last year, in what was laughingly called Summer, I went out one day and collected 287 slugs and put them into an old Waitrose plastic bag(nothing but the best plastic bags for MY slugs!!). They weighed a ton. They were sooooo heavy. I covered them with salt, tied up the bag and shoved it into the skip at the end of the road. Next day I went out and collected another load. I stopped counting at 100 that time as it was obvious I might be getting obsessed. I went out EVERY day and collected a bag of them. I went through a lot of plastic bags and a lot of salt but the slugs went through ALL my plants in the garden. Some of the slugs were about 4 - 5 inches long. Yuck. Now that we have another load of rain, they're on the march again. No matter what you put down pellets, beer etc... NOTHING works. Another summer, another battle is about to commence. Good luck everyone. Seek and destroy !