It took a lot of trial and error for me to combat my slug problems. I set beer traps, I went out at night with a flashlight and hand picked them, etc. I knew I could never use pellets so I did some research and I found the clay type product I mentioned above. I spread this like you would a mulch in a circle that was perhaps 3 feet in diameter. I tried with one hosta at first and noticed no slug damage so spread around all of them. From that moment, I defeated the slugs and these guys were HUGE... some exceeding the size of my middle finger so they could take a full grown hosta down to nothing overnight so you could imagine my frustration. I didn't use DE then but if I had a slug problem today, I would use it.
