RickCorey said:Welcome, Toni!
Wow, 13 acres ... I'm drooling. I might have 1% that much room.
For slugs, I put out beer saucers and slug bait. The iron phosphate eco-friendly stuff seems slightly effective, but the chemical-based product is immediately effective.
Beer will draw them in from some distance, so you might not want to put it right IN your beds.
I found that I would catch some in beer saucers during late winter / early spring thaws. Then they would freeze down to slugsickles overnight.
Someone urged going after them extra-hard before & during egg-laying seasons, but I'm not sure when those are.
Sometimes I go along my raised beds, pulling back the paving stone walls looking for slug egg masses. Usually I scrape those off with a trowel and crush them, but I've thought about spraying them with concentrated ammonia., instead.
Neighbors say that (here) we had the two worst "slug years" in a row, back around 2011.
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