How I tackle slugs!
I have been a nodigger for five years now. Some years slugs are worse than others. Sometimes they affect one crop but not all. Last September it was my leeks crawling in little dark slugs that did a lot of damage. I was literally picking off hundreds a day. Incredible! A few years back it was big slugs on broad bean plants in late June.Sometimes 8 per plant. And that same tear slugs were going sis feet up runner bean plants to eat them. It was a very wet june! The solution again picking off.
At this time of year as I get beds ready for runner beans french beans and sweet corn I plant sacrificial lettuce. This enables me to guage how bad the slug problem is as to whether I need dawn and dusk forays. It is also useful to put down damp pieces of timber and check the undersides each mornng.
I realise my sacrificial lettuce tip is no help to the lady writing in pests about slugs devastating her out door lettuce!