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 I don't know much about sails and slugs nor nematodes. However, if you think the mulching is what creates the habitat for them to thrive, you could use different mulch that they don't like to live in or use some sort of ground cover instead like strawberry or clover. Another thought that comes to mind, assuming you can't have or don't want chickens or ducks, is to create habitat for snakes. If you created the habitat for the slugs, can you create habitat for the predators of the slugs? Another thing you can do is find more plants, like oregano, that the slugs don't like and grow those instead. More perennials, I am always planting more perennials.  
 Thank you. 
I might have a hedgehog and toads living here, at least they pass through. No snakes, need to go to nature reserve for that and even there they're rare. I think they'll get run over with to much traffic here if ever they want to roam or relax on the warm road.
I'm happy for your thoughts on the matter and actually just enjoy seeing a different topic pass this nostr, so I had to post a question and see if you might have the eureka answer on the slimy plague however cute they might look😄 
 I feel my little garden is more for some herbs, berries and fruits, maybe a hazelnut. 

Good luck with the food forest and that it may give you plenty.
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