Kebab your slugs

Legacy_user

You want to save money in the garden?, then follow this tip. Following a night of rain, I pottered about in the garden and found lots of huge slugs. I tried lifting them onto a trowel but this proved too time consuming, using my fingers left them sticky, so.....................

I have decided to kebab'em. I've got a long metal knitting needle and at the first opportunity will spike the sods. Once the needle is full, over the fence they will go.

Biggles

Er, why over the fence? If they survive, they'll be back.

unhappy_shopper

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27078782

Your neighbour might return your favour

theoretica

I think you will find it rather hard to skewer a slug. A glove (garden or disposable) or even a small plastic bag or clingfilm over the hand to keep it unslimy and screwing slugs up into an old jar, bottle or tub and binning them would be easier.

forgotmyname

I keep some old jars to collect slugs and snails. I did have a bucket of salty water. But it gets rather ripe after a while.

Although some years i seen to have enough to think i must be farming them.

MoneyMate

islandman wrote: »

You want to save money in the garden?, then follow this tip. Following a night of rain, I pottered about in the garden and found lots of huge slugs. I tried lifting them onto a trowel but this proved too time consuming, using my fingers left them sticky, so.....................

I have decided to kebab'em. I've got a long metal knitting needle and at the first opportunity will spike the sods. Once the needle is full, over the fence they will go.

Hang on PLEASE STOP I think i may be your neighbor , recently discovered large amount of Slugs falling from the sky with holes in them :eek:
Be more hue main and feed them salt, they love it after application they froth at the mouth and other places.

trollopscarletwoman

Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall eats them on River Cottage.

The episode is somewhere there on the channel 4 i player.

pelirocco

Cut them in half with scissors

Quiet_Spark

Just pour a small amount of salt on them, they won't be sticking to anything after that.

Elsewhere

I haven't tried it myself, but this sounds good - homemade electric slug fence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZdeyWuHbAE

http://www.instructables.com/id/Installing-and-testing-an-electric-slug-fence-on-a/

System

All very amusing and interesting. I do seem to remember we used to have a salt cellar in the garden and poured salt on the damn things, after a moment or two of frothing, they appeared to leave their skin and come out unscathed.