snails

Debt_Free_Chick

Whilst I've no doubt a hot heap would kill off the eggs, I doubt that a compost heap would generate enough heat over the winter.

TimBuckTeeth

ts_aly2000 wrote: »

They're called Hobbnidobbs. And everytime I stand on one on the garden path I feel a sense of guilt.

You can't go round sanitising and cleansing everything. It's almost on par with these councils that religiously chop down hedges and undergrowth arguing that they're untidy. Nature is a wonderful thing. Bees buzzing and butterflies flapping.

Why not just concrete over the whole lot and have a green house?

I leave my garden a bit wild and like nature to do its stuff, and generally leave things alone, but I have a problem with slugs. I have put some new plants in this year, some for wildlife and some others I like the look of, but many have been stripped bare by slugs in a couple of days.

I don't use slug pellets as I have frogs and a hedgehog that visit the garden, I have found that beer traps and manually collecting slugs at night seems to work quite well.
I have just used part buried cut off lemonade bottles for the beer traps, but they need to be placed every few feet. With about an inch or two of cheap beer in them.
The edge of the bottles should be about an inch above the soil level to stop other creatures falling in, as I found a newt in one. I was checking so it was in for less than an hour but was well drunk, p*ssed as a newt. Luckily after putting it in clean water it recovered.
The decomposing bodies of the slugs start to stink after a few days so they should be emptied.

Pandora123_2

We gather them up in a container once it's dark and relocate them to the nettle patch at the end of the road. I don't like killing things deliberately... bad karma.

Anyway, as ts_aly2000 said, they're all part of nature.

:A

maypole

I hate slugs and snails and I put down pellets to kill them, but I could not burn anything to death and especially not want to hear its screams. I hate cruelty, burning is such a sadistic thing to do to anything.

Stompa

I recall hearing a snail many years ago. It was on some expanded polystyrene, and my guess was that the noise (a sort of rasping sound) was perhaps coming from the serrated tongue scraping over the surface.

yellowmonkey

I can assure you that i would also scream if i was doused in white spirit and set alight :eek:

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thelurch

burning slugs and snails is terrible, do what I do and a quick snip in half with a pair of scissors does the trick, especially the slug, they turn inside out

noonesperfect

thelurch wrote: »

burning slugs and snails is terrible, do what I do and a quick snip in half with a pair of scissors does the trick, especially the slug, they turn inside out

_pale_ _pale_ ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! _pale_ _pale_

MrsTinks

I'd merrily eat them if I got enough snails... however I only have slugs here... grrrr

I have tried the humane removal to the field but that got irritating so now I let them go to slug heaven in a humane way... Beer traps! One last p*ss up before they die... quite humane I think

alba37

bindweed wrote: »

They probably do scream when they're set alight, but it is probably similar to a lobstor being put in boiling water. something to do with the shell and air inside it escaping. You can put the slugs and snails in your compost heap.

I have heard that, I thought it was the snails!! :rotfl:

I have seen them being cooked often, hundred's put into boiling liquid. You honestly hear lots of screaming! _pale_