101 ways to get rid of slugs
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You can borrow one of my chickens... nay you can HAVE one if you come and pick it up! It would be a cockerel though so eating the slugs wouldn't be of benefit to the eggs. Hahaha.
You can borrow one of my chickens... nay you can HAVE one if you come and pick it up! It would be a cockerel though so eating the slugs wouldn't be of benefit to the eggs. Hahaha.
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our ducks LOVED them but they quickly recycled these, and anything else they ate, and rather explosively deposited them on the lawn
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20. using them for golf practice
21. extinquishing bonfires
21. extinquishing bonfires
"Rich, fatty foods are like destiny: they too, shape our ends." ~Author Unknown
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This thread is quite revealing, as to the ways your minds work!!!
22. Use them for a work of "Art"
23. Apply parasitic nematodes
To return to the washing-up liquid discussion: In line with those rules, garlic officially may not be used in organic farming as a pest deterrent - it has not been approved for that purpose. I wonder whether it would be acceptable if I eat a lot of garlic, and then breathe on the plants until the beasties fall off?
22. Use them for a work of "Art"
23. Apply parasitic nematodes
To return to the washing-up liquid discussion: In line with those rules, garlic officially may not be used in organic farming as a pest deterrent - it has not been approved for that purpose. I wonder whether it would be acceptable if I eat a lot of garlic, and then breathe on the plants until the beasties fall off?
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24. razor blades
OR put them to good use by:
25. Opening a hedgehog santuary
OR, in event of a chemical spill in the vicinity,
26. Use them as mops
OR put them to good use by:
25. Opening a hedgehog santuary
OR, in event of a chemical spill in the vicinity,
26. Use them as mops
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43. Learn to love them.
Understand that in the eternal cycle of life, in the endless continuum of existence, they are no less significant (or hungry) than you and I, and no less deserving of love. Embrace them. Touch nirvana together.
I realise this won't help your seedlings any.
Understand that in the eternal cycle of life, in the endless continuum of existence, they are no less significant (or hungry) than you and I, and no less deserving of love. Embrace them. Touch nirvana together.
I realise this won't help your seedlings any.
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If you're into the whole karmic cycle thing, surely it would be a kindness to put the slugs out of their misery so they might come back as something less noxious like an earthworm!
Anyway, I suppose I should suggest another method, so I'll go for:
44. Lapidation (not chucking stones at them but a sharp stone will stand in if my utility knife is not at hand)
Wulf
ps. actually, I think slugs do have a place in breaking down decaying material. It might be worth letting a few young weeds survive so that the first tender green thing they encounter in wandering from the grotty bits aren't your prize seedlings.
Anyway, I suppose I should suggest another method, so I'll go for:
44. Lapidation (not chucking stones at them but a sharp stone will stand in if my utility knife is not at hand)
Wulf
ps. actually, I think slugs do have a place in breaking down decaying material. It might be worth letting a few young weeds survive so that the first tender green thing they encounter in wandering from the grotty bits aren't your prize seedlings.
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Hey, what happened to 29. to 42.???
And no, I do not want to touch nirvana with a slug.... eeek! (Although I don't mind touching them without gloves - I'm not that fussy.)
Unfortunately, my slugs seem to be well able to tell the difference between weeds and food. Like me, they prefer food.
I don't think we've mentioned the good old beer trap yet?
And no, I do not want to touch nirvana with a slug.... eeek! (Although I don't mind touching them without gloves - I'm not that fussy.)
Unfortunately, my slugs seem to be well able to tell the difference between weeds and food. Like me, they prefer food.
I don't think we've mentioned the good old beer trap yet?
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Yeah, Andy listed it. It's point number 3.
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However, it would appear at least one species of slug is looking to drop of the census altogether:
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archiv ... 2local.htm
For those of you pressed for time:
(Extract) That’s inevitable when you study a critter that has both male and female reproductive organs and sometimes chews off its partner’s penis during coitus.
It gets better, I promise you! Spare some time to read the article in full.
29.(45.) Birth control.
http://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?U ... archengine
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archiv ... 2local.htm
For those of you pressed for time:
(Extract) That’s inevitable when you study a critter that has both male and female reproductive organs and sometimes chews off its partner’s penis during coitus.
It gets better, I promise you! Spare some time to read the article in full.
29.(45.) Birth control.
http://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?U ... archengine
"Rich, fatty foods are like destiny: they too, shape our ends." ~Author Unknown
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this just takes me to a page telling me I can buy the article for a fiver?!The Chili Monster wrote:
http://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?U ... archengine
Actually - apart from the slug I stepped on way back when I've never killed a slug - and never really been troubled with them.
edit to say that in 2010 it now costs £9 to read the article. That's inflation for you!!!
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