What are you guys doing with all these slugs?

Leif

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Did the R4 listener have ten foot walls around their property?

I see an important scientific experiment just begging to be carried out ... There is an Ignoble prize up for grabs.

azzabazza

Not had as big a slug problem this year because, I think, we have 3 visiting hedgehogs scooping them up. Any spotted by me get salted and snails get stood upon.

sooty&sweep

Hi

I put them in the green bin to add some nutrition to the council compost.

VanMan2007

Do you guys distinguish your treatment towards slugs and snails? Some of you, obviously not. But I do feel more inclined to save snails who have "took the time to make a house on it's back" (I obviously have no idea how this happens!) One level down is the slug with "deelyboppers"! (A snail searching for a house to put on its back!) Then there is the 4-5" common slug, poor old lad! He stands no chance!

euansmammy

Plantie wrote: »

My mum is worse than me, she cuts them in half!!!!

My hubby cuts their heads off with sissors - we are growing veg to feed our children not the slug/snail population. Before growing veg I used to think that they didn't do much harm in the garden - how wrong was I?

smarttart

What did the slug say to the snail ?


Big Issue :rotfl:

Spamfree_2

I Saxa them.:p

VanMan2007

smarttart wrote: »

What did the slug say to the snail ?


Big Issue :rotfl:

Very good!

cyclonebri1

Leif wrote: »

Not long ago a R4 listener did a scientific experiment by painting coloured marks on snail shells, then moving them into areas away from their house. They discovered that they all came back, from up to 30m away. They did not try longer distances. So you might well be wasting your time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio4/2011/09/so_you_want_to_be_a_scientist_1.html

Anyway slugs and snails are very primitive organisms without much in the way of a brain if any, so just kill 'em. I'm sure you also know some people who satisfy that description, but don't kill them. Unless they eat your garden veg, of course.

Has to be a catapult then, ;)
And they do seem to be on steroids this year, I don't usually have any issues with raised veg beds, but this year I can't keep them out completely.


Slug pellets for me, the organic ones seems to be like giving them caviar, and they thrive on it, so has to be super strength stuff, manfs must have made a fortune this year.

Any I see get a quick trim with the secateurs, they ones on the front, and I see I'm not the only one who does it, gets to play chicken with the traffic on the main road.

Elsewhere

Seems to me someone could make a fortune breeding and selling toads and hedgehogs to gardeners. Are there any common pets that eat slugs and snails?