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Slugs and how to send them to heaven

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  • pendragon_arther
    pendragon_arther Posts: 1,304 Forumite
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    jovie wrote: »
    We make beer traps out of plastic bottles cut in half and half buried in the borders, then buy cheap supermarket beer/lager. You have to keep on top of it though, they're not pleasant to empty at the best of times - even worse if you forget for a while!!

    I second this if you're squeamish. They die with a little smile on their faces.
    “Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”
    ― Groucho Marx
  • moneyistooshorttomention
    moneyistooshorttomention Posts: 17,940 Forumite
    Davesnave wrote: »
    Do all you 'good' people pay the extra and buy organic potatoes?

    Just asking.

    Errr....yep...

    Oh I winced at the price difference yesterday. Supermarket had a special offer on for yer conventional ones of 49p for a large bag and there was me still buying my organic ones - at £2? a bag. Now that took dedication.._pale_

    I am wondering about the something very prickly possibility...and there's plenty of sloe bushes round here...wonder if they would do the trick?
  • 50Twuncle
    50Twuncle Posts: 10,763 Forumite
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    So nobody else has fried them or made slug omelette ?
    What a waste of protein...
  • Davesnave
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    50Twuncle wrote: »
    So nobody else has fried them or made slug omelette ?
    What a waste of protein...

    Even my hens don't seem to like slugs.

    Mice, voles, shrews, beefburgers, cat food, no problem, but slugs, not really!
  • 50Twuncle
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    Even my hens don't seem to like slugs.

    Mice, voles, shrews, beefburgers, cat food, no problem, but slugs, not really!

    The stringy intestines get stuck between your teeth....
  • Davesnave
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    50Twuncle wrote: »
    The stringy intestines get stuck between your teeth....

    Chickens don't have that problem, though. ;)
  • 50Twuncle
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    Chickens don't have that problem, though. ;)

    Good point - I will have to get a few chickens or Turkeys....
  • Dizzy_Ditzy
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    Even my hens won't eat them :eek: Which is going to be a problem with two allotments to keep as slug free as I can, sorry but i will be accepting as much "assistance" as I possibly can this year

    Those little blue things will be my friends this year...
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  • 50Twuncle
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    It looks as if I will be using nematodes again !!
    They do reduce the numbers of slugs and snails for a good three years - because they kill them all the first year and it takes time for them to repopulate the area...
  • DKLS
    DKLS Posts: 13,461 Forumite
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    My friend who had three huge polytunnels used to swear by chucking a duck in the tunnels overnight, they would munch all the slugs.
    My current garden is plagued by snails, I find a old badminton racquet a useful and entertaining method of disposal.
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