General Chat

We seldom get them on the patio,tho the main flowered area is on the same level , 3 steps down to the veg garden ,lawn and shrub area and there's no end of the the bleeding slimy things.
Try this site for ideas of controlling /eliminating them.

http://green.thefuntimesguide.com/2009/08/natural_garden_slug_control.php

I've done the eggshell one before, but not tried planting fennel and rosemary.

lol!!! Dizzi,
:-D :-D

WALK BARE FOOTED SNAILS CRUNCH AN SLUGS SQWISH

Hope he enjoys it Trish :-D Or could do slug pie and chips

Shirley the one that was on my carpet has made a nice mest. Not so bad cleaning up out side. Nee a nice very hot day to dry them out :-D

Darn things go walk about on patio every night. cant put slug pellets down as we have Harold the tortoise wandering about. so its nuking with the salt drum every night and sometimes during the day when yet another downpour brings em out.

Any food Harold has left on his plate is decimated by the morning.

Only thing with salt is you then have the slime to clean up . YUK

If the slugs get in the dumplings,you might mistake them for bits of meat,or even eyes.ugh!!!!!!! :-S :-S
Your making me be naughty now :-P :-P :-D :-D
Hubby just walked in the room, and said what do you fancy for tea???
I had to explain what I was laughing at!!!!!!!!!
Slug stew it is then.

Oh yes i love leeks. Dont for get the dumplings lots :-D

lol!!!!!!!!
Think I might add carrots for colour,and leeks for flavour,
does that sound good??
:-D :-D :-D :-D

Put them in slow cooker wil taste better, What veg you going to use :-D

I have loads in my garden too,ugh!!!
all the wet weather is bringing them out,
or making them breed more.lol!!!

Even in the greenhouse,they seem to be hiding.

Wonder if I could make a slug stew,there's so many of them. :-) :-0 :-0 :-0 :-D :-D

Yes i heard beer is also a way of getting them. Wish they eat my weeds, I would have everyones if done that :-D

My neighbour swears by a dish of beer ( and for the slugs) he doesn't grow veg tho.....but if it entices them into his garden to get sozzled ...great :-D

We haven't tried it yet, hubby uses slug pellets and I have no compunction about about giving them a dose of salt. They have no right in my garden and just are just slimy pests.

S*d the food chain, I'll feed the birds..perhaps I do too much and that's why they don't eat my slugs ! There's plenty of other slugs they can eat !!
Song comes to mind..There was an old lady who swallowed a fly, I don't know why she wallowed a fly etc etc.

I heard a dish of beer helps get them sozzled

thinks will have to try a nearly empty can of lager on its side,

see If that will trap em!!

nosy Mr Parrish (mr neighbour hood watch) one of my neighbours pulled me up
saying did you find your missing cat
i said my cats don't go out so not missing
he said i seen you searching for it with your torch
i said nope i was slug and snail killing ;-)

he said will you do mine to then ;-) ;-)

Apparently, they suffer a painful, lingering death if you put salt on them. I just cut them in half with a pair of scissors (a recommended quick death way to deal with them by my tutor at horticultural college.)

AnnC, I think feeding the birds is their reason to be, nothing else just food chain. They make me gag but I wouldn't put salt on them (double gag, did it just once) in case it poisoned any birds.

We are inundated with the little blighters.I hate them,Snails as well.I have tried all the well known death penalties and am finding a coffee jar buried in the soil with cheap lager in is drowning quite a lot . ;-) ;-)

stacks in my garden - wonder if they are good for anything other than feeding birds - what purpose do they have in nature?

We have hardly had any this year, last yr about the same. A few under stones or in amongst the plants. One on the patio night before last which (yuk) l squashed by mistake:((

jude

Wet weather brings them out so it's hardly suprising there seems to be a lot. I suppose they skulk about in the undergrowth when it's not raining?