Slugs.

[StrangewaysHereWeCome]

They're a real pest for me, I think they're coming from underneath the house! are hedgehogs a predator of them? I saw 22 outside my backdoor last night. do my neighbours either sides ponds have 'owt to do with this?

 

[stony]

Go out for 3 nights running with a torch, a pair of gloves(or a grabber) and a bucket of salty water. Collect as many slugs as possible and put them in the bucket, they dissolve into a slug soup. 3 nights of slug patrol will drastically reduce the slug population and is the only reliable way to get rid of the fuckers. Hedgehogs and frogs are to be encouraged, they both eat slugs.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

22 hedgehogs and you still have a problem with slugs? Blimey.

 

[langy[wales]]

zeflora in a spray gun mixed with water

 

[pee dubya]

Drop them into a bucket of lager (tennants if your feeling cruel). That way they die in a haze of drunkeness with wee (slightly wonky) smile on their faces.

 

[stony]

Drop them into a bucket of lager (tennants if your feeling cruel). That way they die in a haze of drunkeness with wee (slightly wonky) smile on their faces.

stay with salty water, the little fuckers die in agony and you don't waste good beer.

 

[MOSTON_BLUE_88]

we have a mystery guest slug who roams my house at night leaving his sticky spunk trail all over the floors. theres no holes in the walls or floors and i am really bamboozled as to how it gets in, i even left little piles of salt about the place at night but nothing sems to get it!

 

[pee dubya]

Drop them into a bucket of lager (tennants if your feeling cruel). That way they die in a haze of drunkeness with wee (slightly wonky) smile on their faces.

stay with salty water, the little fuckers die in agony and you don't waste good beer.

Tennants, Carling, Fosters, Budwieser, Coors etc are all more fit for slug eradication than human consumption.

 

[stony]

Drop them into a bucket of lager (tennants if your feeling cruel). That way they die in a haze of drunkeness with wee (slightly wonky) smile on their faces.

stay with salty water, the little fuckers die in agony and you don't waste good beer.

Tennants, Carling, Fosters, Budwieser, Coors etc are all more fit for slug eradication than human consumption.

For the cost of a bucket full of Budweiser, you could by a decent 10 year old single malt. You could sit there sipping a nice smoky Islay and let the mrs deal with the slugs.

 

[pee dubya]

It's not a bucket full though, just a can should do, dilute it a bit(more). Don't want to waste perfectly good salt.

 

[Newlunar]

I fookin despise slugs. I blowtorched one bastard until it popped last year because I fookin hate them so much.

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[Corky]

Removed an 8 inch slug off my Gran's front door as she refused to enter the house with it there. It took me 20 mins to get the slug slime of my hands, it was like sticky laminate which nothing could penetrate.

 

[stony]

Removed an 8 inch slug off my Gran's front door as she refused to enter the house with it there. It took me 20 mins to get the slug slime of my hands, it was like sticky laminate which nothing could penetrate.

Could you not have found a stick to poke the horrible bastard with?

 

[pee dubya]

Removed an 8 inch slug off my Gran's front door as she refused to enter the house with it there. It took me 20 mins to get the slug slime of my hands, it was like sticky laminate which nothing could penetrate.

That's to protect them vs ants trying to cut them up and eat them, and wasps trying to lay eggs inside them, stuff like that. Millions of years of evolution and you come along and destroy with some salty water because of what the humble slug does to your pretty flowers. These poor slugs will never live again! They are one of a kind, gone never to return, because of fecking gardeners! Bah!

http://www.SOS-Save-our-Slugs!.com

There's a petition here to save them, i urge you all to see sense and sign up.

 

[Corky]

Removed an 8 inch slug off my Gran's front door as she refused to enter the house with it there. It took me 20 mins to get the slug slime of my hands, it was like sticky laminate which nothing could penetrate.

Could you not have found a stick to poke the horrible bastard with?

Paved front yards where she lives, no trees or owt. It was a monster and need a right good tug. Next time she can go round the back and leave nature in peace.

 

[stony]

Removed an 8 inch slug off my Gran's front door as she refused to enter the house with it there. It took me 20 mins to get the slug slime of my hands, it was like sticky laminate which nothing could penetrate.

Could you not have found a stick to poke the horrible bastard with?

Paved front yards where she lives, no trees or owt. It was a monster and need a right good tug. Next time she can go round the back and leave nature in peace.

I'd have pissed on it rather than touch the horrible bastard. Surely a good steady piss jet would have dislodged the hermaphrodite soft bodied twat.

 

[merlot somme]

If anyone decides to use the blue pellets don't use too many, four or five to a square yard should be enough, the slugs will find them. I often see small piles of them in gardens, when they're put down like that they're more likely to attract the attention of cats, who will eat them and have fits. On the whole dogs don't seem as stupid. I don't like using pellets so I would opt to go out and pick them up. It's argued that slug trails contain all sorts of different chemicals, from substances that mark the direction of travel, to ones that slow the growth rate of smaller slugs so preventing over-crowding. The greenest answer to slugs is to grow plants that they won't eat, the same way the best answer to blackspot, rust and everything else on roses is choose varieties that are resistant.

 

[Blootoof]

A good way to get rid of slugs is to get a cat bowl, leave it outside full of petrol, then sit up til 4am with a zippo

 

[stonie]

when they're put down like that they're more likely to attract the attention of cats, who will eat them and have fits.

top idea to get rid of cats that piss in my garden,ive tried to poisen them but to no avail.......cats are scum

 

[audiodave08]

Removed an 8 inch slug off my Gran's front door as she refused to enter the house with it there. It took me 20 mins to get the slug slime of my hands, it was like sticky laminate which nothing could penetrate.

Could you not have found a stick to poke the horrible bastard with?

lol