How bad are slug pellets ?

nicki_2

Personally, this year, I've taken a zero tolerance approach to this little dears :mad: Yesterday as it was wet in the morning there was a lovely collection of snails all over our garden (which is mostly paved) so I got an old washing up bowl, put some water in the bottom of it and then went around collecting the snails and slugs (snails not got a problem with picking them up by the shells, but slugs I use 2 trowels to scoop them up ). After I'd got the last one that I could see I put the bowl on the garden table and then filled it with a just-boiled kettle of water. No more snails or slugs :j Now I'll be going out today to hunt the slugs I missed yesterday, but this time I'll be armed with salt

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everyone is rightly concerned with wildlife and pets etc but slugs are still creatures. I could not for the life of me put boiling water on top of them.

I used to pick them by torchlight and sling them into a big overgrown field behind me

beer2006

Well if you sling them into the field they will come back then.
Waste of time.

Apparently slug slime is natures hand cream, very good for the skin, just thought I'd let all you hardcore OS'ers know that

MATH

I can't wait to read this thread in more detail later. My garden is like Mecca in the slug and snail world. I try all sorts of things but always have to resort to pellets because there are just soo many of them. I sent 48 off to meet their maker earlier than they expected yesterday. LOL Does anyone else have snails that climb trees:eek: I know it soulds like a dodgy hammer house of horror film but in my garden they do. I have a 15 foot bay and a 7 foot budlia and the top branches are covered in snails catching a few rays, chatting about snail kinda things and looking c0cky cos thet know that by the time I've got the step ladders out they can out run me:o

getcarter

I made the mistake of using salt once and have felt guilty every after, I hate slugs with a passion and have nightmares about giant ones but the salt just dries them out and leaves an awful mess, it was just plain cruel (do slugs have pain receptors).

Now I just cut them up, at least it's quick and the birds can still have them!