kathlelande,
I grow a lot of my daylilies in a bog area, and I use a ton or oak leaves and pine straw as mulch. So for a couple of years I ended up with a lot of slugs and snails. I found that ammonia mix up in a squirt bottle would do the trick and I enjoyed the snail hunt. After about two years of this early in the season, my snail and slug problem went away. You can play around with the solution ratio, but I think I found that as little as 1 in 10 ammonia to water still worked. I would set the sprayer to stream and could hit them from probably 8 feet away if needed. They just melt and die. I did the same for my hosta , and solved that problem also.
