Rant about slugs

.... yet again, the mutant slugs and snails have been holding night-long raves in my greenhouse..... and it is gravelled!!!! I made sure there wasn't one hiding anywhere, so have come to the conclusion they are either swinging down from the roof in the dead of night Tom Cruise style (Mission Impossible), or in the bags of compost I have been buying....

 

Never seen anthing touch the slug pellets and I've got a yorkie and she does'nt, think thats why there blue it keeps everything away cept the dumb slugs! I have gone out at night in the summer and sprinkled salt on them and watched them shrivel and bubble and melt bit naughty but they are horrible,and I don't want to waste my beer on them!!!

 

Now the swining things have had a right good go at my Morning Glories and one of my Lobelias (tall spiky red one) is now just a stump :eek:
Thought I might slice them up and leave them around as a warning to the others....just been out and collected about 40 of the swines...now where's my knife? :D :D

 

Slug Pellets windy that is the answer.We have two hedgehogs and all they are interested in are the garden worms.I rescued two baby hedgehogs a few years ago and I found apart from cat meat they never touched the slugs worms were more palatable.I am finding tiny snails amongst my Cammasia leaves during the day and tiny keel slugs.I doubt if they would be much of a mouthful for hedgehogs

 

Well I'm off to scatter them with gay abandon!!!! :D

 

For the past 2 years I have shredded our Christmas tree (real one) and covered our hosta boarder with it. We never get any slug or snail damage or trails, and the hostas grow great so its not effecting the soil.

[ 08. May 2007, 11:15 PM: Message edited by: Keving ]

 

I've got some natural gel stuff which is supposed to deter them, I've put it around the perimeter of my raised bed. Does anyone know if that's enough? Will there be slugs hiding in the soil? Can they burrow under the wooden frame?

 

Just pick them off by hand

 

My M Glories have been attacked and the s****s have just had their supper laid out in blue pellet form! I haven't had pellets here for years but I'm fed up with feeding the pests.

:eek: roders!!

 

I am guilty of using slug pellets I must admit. I trod on a snail by my greenhouse door and within a matter of just an hour or too there were 6 or 7 small slugs caniblising the remains of the snail. Disgusting things!!

 

Bl**dy slugs.They are destroying my spring cabbage and collies.Mr.fiz was given 12 cans of beer as a thankyou for rotavating next doors plot.(he had hip replacements earlier this yr)and i left 2 half empty cans in the shed to use on the slugs.They were there a couple of days until of course i looked for them.Disappeared.
I enqiured as to their where abouts only to be told by another plot holder, who calls for a cuupa,"yes, i took the tins to be recycled." Charming!
My dilema is,i bought 18 tins of guiness at christmas.I have 3 left.Do i sacrifice the nectar to save the brassicas?I can`t decide.

 

Don't do it elaine!! Get the pellets out.

 

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