Grrr...damn slugs are at it again

the.fee.fairy · Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:53 am

I had 2 peter peppers coming up - a whole 2! They'd just started to get their true leaves.

I went in the greenhouse today, and some little slug has eaten them! They've gone! Along with some tomatoes, and all my salad leaves.

Do you think i can find the thing anywhere? Oh no, the thing has gone into hiding. mauybe it knows a boot is on the way if i find it...

pskipper · Post: # 55408Post **pskipper** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:57 am

seeing as it's in the greenhouse thickly sprinkle cayenne pepper around the pots, it works really well. Last time I used cayenne pepper on the garden I didn't see another slug/slug damage for the rest of the year (and the neighbours dog stopped sniffing around and killing the grass)

red · Post: # 55476Post **red** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:07 pm

himself goes out with a torch every night and collects a cottage cheese tubful every time. they are stiull eating my plants,.. but it keeps them down and the gh is ok...

we have so many of the blighters here its ridiculous.

mattachinelee · Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:12 pm

Piqued curiousity is .... when himself has cottage cheese tub full of slugs what then?

pskipper · Post: # 55510Post **pskipper** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:48 am

I'd take it back to T***o and complain

Millymollymandy · Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:50 am

Thomzo · Post: # 55800Post **Thomzo** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:23 pm

red · Post: # 55803Post **red** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:45 pm

heh !

well apart from the taking to supermarket suggestion.. it is a problem - ducks would be a good thing here.. there are so much better at eating slugs and snails than chickens.. however dont have either at the mo - we tried putting them in the compost bin the council take away,,, but thye crawl out. so im afraid... and this is not ideal.. they get tied up in a bread bag and binned. sorry.
someone suggested drowning.. but i actually saw a snail draag itself out of the bucket.. I know our mehtod is landfill and prolly cruel.. any suggestions welcomed.

Thomzo · Post: # 55804Post **Thomzo** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:50 pm

red wrote:however dont have either at the mo - we tried putting them in the compost bin the council take away.

Sorry but when I read that I thought you meant you'd tried putting the ducks and the chooks in the compost bin

the.fee.fairy · Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:33 pm

Some people mentioned cutting them in half and leaving them for the birds.

Or - put sugar water in the tub, let them drown and then leave them for the birds.

I left the slugs a nice pint last night - they've got 8 pots of lager waiting for them...call it a peace offering

littlebluefish · Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:08 pm

I can loan out a slug eating puppy if anyone has need...

Be warned there is nothing like treading on half eaten slug with bare feet

the.fee.fairy · Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:50 pm

I keep trying to educate my puppy on the nutritional goodness of slugs - he hasn't quite got the idea yet though

littlebluefish · Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:59 pm

the.fee.fairy wrote:I keep trying to educate my puppy on the nutritional goodness of slugs - he hasn't quite got the idea yet though

Poppy is convinced that the next one will be tasty...

Thomzo · Post: # 55917Post **Thomzo** » Tue May 01, 2007 1:29 pm

Try gardening in concrete (aka heavy clay mixed with cotswold gravel). Even the slugs give up.

In fact the only place I have seen one this year is in the spare bedroom

wulf · Post: # 55998Post **wulf** » Wed May 02, 2007 9:06 am

I went out on another slug hunt last night and was (happily) surprised how unsuccessful I was - I think the grand total was three snails. Maybe previous efforts have sent the local populations into precipitous decline, maybe all my neighbours have poisoned them with approaches that are less organic than a sharp knife or maybe it's just too dry round here at the moment for them to thrive?

Wulf