101 ways to get rid of slugs
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A carnivorous slug has a tiny shell. As soon as I can locate the USB thingy for my digital camera I'll put up a photo.
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I just read the first two pages of this and I was so APPALLED I couldn't read anymore!!! How could you lot be so *&T()*)(* cruel to slugs.
They come into my house and eat my dog food, they have removed the heads of most of my baby plants in the greenhouse and I find the best way to deal with them is...
Pick them up, baby talk them whilst tickling them under their chins (YES they have chins!!!!) and then teach them to fly and teach them to swim (chuck em in the river!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)...
My question for you all is......... CAN they swim!??
They come into my house and eat my dog food, they have removed the heads of most of my baby plants in the greenhouse and I find the best way to deal with them is...
Pick them up, baby talk them whilst tickling them under their chins (YES they have chins!!!!) and then teach them to fly and teach them to swim (chuck em in the river!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)...
My question for you all is......... CAN they swim!??
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Tigerhair wrote:
I hope not!My question for you all is......... CAN they swim!??
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Well, I don't know about swimming but for flying try The Horrible World of Flying SlugsTigerhair wrote:then teach them to fly and teach them to swim
Guaranteed to give you the horrors!
It's the flame gun for me...
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Flying slugs?
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Not sure what number we are up to but here's another one to add to the collection. In the gardening section of the Daily Telegraph today Claudine Beaumont advises that slugs hate lavender, so to use it as a useful and attractive barricade. I don't really want to plant lavender around my runner beans but wonder if lavender clippings scattered around the plants would work? I may give it a go!
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Well we made it to 51 ways to get rid of slugs I have stuck it together in an article for a sneaky peak ......
First we sow the seeds, nature grows the seeds then we eat the seeds. Neil Pye
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Thanks, Andy, that's great. I've had a really bad week and that's cheered me up no end.
BTW, the list is really well worth the read. Not sure what is says about us (I recognised my efforts which is scary enough).
BTW, the list is really well worth the read. Not sure what is says about us (I recognised my efforts which is scary enough).
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52?? Cultivate your soil in the early spring and kill them while they hibernate.
53 Diatomaceous Earth. Powder made from ground up plant fossils, very sharp.
54 Vermiculite. add water so it swells up, place around your plants. Much as the slugs like the water, they dislike the movement.
55. Puree a yucca leaf, dilute and spray.
56. Garlic in Paraffin, spray.
57. Mixture of boiling water, chillies, horseradish root and a couple of handfulls of geranium leaves. Spray.
58. Damp carpet squares, left around the garden as slug hotels.
59. Cat food in a dish will be more desirable than cabbage or lettuce, also encourages hedgehogs.
60. Drown them in a bucket of soapy water. It breaks down the slime covering and dehydrates the slug so it will drown. Otherwise they will just crawl back out of the bucket!
53 Diatomaceous Earth. Powder made from ground up plant fossils, very sharp.
54 Vermiculite. add water so it swells up, place around your plants. Much as the slugs like the water, they dislike the movement.
55. Puree a yucca leaf, dilute and spray.
56. Garlic in Paraffin, spray.
57. Mixture of boiling water, chillies, horseradish root and a couple of handfulls of geranium leaves. Spray.
58. Damp carpet squares, left around the garden as slug hotels.
59. Cat food in a dish will be more desirable than cabbage or lettuce, also encourages hedgehogs.
60. Drown them in a bucket of soapy water. It breaks down the slime covering and dehydrates the slug so it will drown. Otherwise they will just crawl back out of the bucket!