What is your own personal hell

[The Chili Monster]

I simply refuse to waste beer on slugs

[Boots]

Can't imagine that happening in Aus too much either!

Do slugs have a purpose? What are their natural predators?

[The Chili Monster]

Boots wrote

Do slugs have a purpose? What are their natural predators?

I don't know, but there doesn't seem to be enough of them.

[Boots]

Just googled and found this...

http://www.haywardm.supanet.com/predators.html

which links across to this...

http://www.nemaslug.com/

[The Chili Monster]

That first link is brilliant, Boots.

I want some of those testacellid carnivorous slugs (I like the idea of slugs eating other slugs).

Of course, there's always this method: Putting boiling water over them to kill them. When cold add to compost heap.

???Eating Roman or common snails. They used to be sold in markets.

[alcina]

My personal hell is everyone talking about having empty plots next to theirs on the allotments and I'm on a bloody 5 year waiting list!

And squirrels. Now if squirrels ate slugs and snails I'd love 'em even if they did dig up all my pots in their search for food...but they don't. They just dig up my pots. I've had to put chicken wire over a number of them...my venus flytraps look like they're in prison!

Ah...Wulf...now I know where my slugs and snails have gone! I've hardly any this year! Though the blighters I do have have scoffed me hostas

Alcina

[Muddypause]

Just googled and found this...

http://www.haywardm.supanet.com/predators.html

Good link, Boots. It's insipred me to add a links page to the WikiSS-ish site, along with one that Gunners posted a while back.

[Millymollymandy]

Rohen's allotment looks like hell to me! What a jungle!

[justkate]

I simply refuse to waste beer on slugs

. . . let them have the good stuff. Slugs aren't fussy, that cheap watery supermarket stuff seems to do the job.

Kate :-)

[Lou8]

Personally, my hell is having to go to work when there's gardening to be done.

[ina]

That would be my hell. If I came home and found one of those makeover mobs had come and paved, concreted and installed a bloody concrete statue of David or something.

David - which David? (About 20% of the male British population is called David...)

But I agree, that would be awful. How anybody can still call that "garden", I don't know.

Btw, how come so many of you seem to have loads of slugs? There shouldn't be a lot around this year, with the cold winter and drought conditions. I have seen a few, but then, there's not much growing yet.

[Boots]

Oh Ina, you know!

Big David with the little...

hands.

You know... the statue with the tiny ...

hint of a smile.

The guy with the wee...

flick in his hair.

He was supposed to be an inspiration to all men, or some such thing.

[The Chili Monster]

Ina wrote

Btw, how come so many of you seem to have loads of slugs? There shouldn't be a lot around this year, with the cold winter and drought conditions. I have seen a few, but then, there's not much growing yet

Perhaps they've moved south for a holiday. This evening at about 7.30 ish I counted 3 black slugs, 4 orange slugs and six thin, white slugs (never seen them before). They were munching on a dandelion plant and so I spared them the ride of their lives over the wall into Fence Shop next door but it is only a matter of time ...