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Yewwwww Dizzi :-0

LAST YEAR I TROD ON A SLUG
WITH NO SHOES ON

ME THAT IS NOT THE SHOELESS SLUG
IT SQUELCHED A LOT
YUCK

AND IT WAS A WOPPER ONE FELT ORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!

Slugs serve no useful purpose so I take great delight in chucking salt on them and seeing them dissolve.

Snails get chucked in the neighbour's garden - hers is a tip so she deserves them.

Tried the beer traps, couldn't cope with the icky mess in the bottom so they went the journey. Plus, I noticed there seemed to be more aphids on the plants nearby (might be a coincidence?)

The copper tape does work in a lot of cases, I think it gives them some sort of "electric shock" - but the plant pots I put it around were near the wall of the house and in some cases the leaves were touching the wall. The slugs and snails then just slimed up the wall and onto the plants via the leaves - munch, munch.

And don't get me started about caterpillars. Yes, I know they turn into pretty butterflies but could they eat something other than my plants in the meantime?

dunno Kitty
but haver you noticed the blighters never eat the weeds

just your best plants that you have given TLC to


and as for 10/12 inch ones
** FAINTS TWICE**
you would have to beat them with a stick ;-) ;-)

NOOOOOOOO................that's horrible *shudders*

Why do we have slugs anyway..............do they do anything useful??

May I suggest that none of you visit the Pacific Northwest of the US or Canada??


The native slug, the Pacific Banana Slug, grows to almost 10" long ................ YES --- 10 INCHES ........ and weighs around 4 ounces

It is usually yellowish or yellowish brown, hence the name


Course, we usually only see them when we go into forested areas .......... although they also love shrubby areas in big gardens.


It is only the second largest slug in the world ................. the largest is a European slug that grows to over 12" long

Yuk...........winkles are gross, but snails :-0 :-0

and to think the French eat them Kitty

BORK TWICE :-D

We use salt too...and tape round pots.

I loathe slugs,,,,,,,,,,,yuk yuk yuk!!! :-| :-|

all my neighbour laugh when I go out in the rain
with a pot of salt and a torch
but my seedling's are just about safe if I do
but in the green houses I have slug pellets

we did have beer traps
but the snails where coming from miles around and partying in our garden
so they have gone in the bin :-D :-D

if you have clematises
please remember to look up as slugs are great climbers ;-) ;-)

Last year, for the first time ever, I tried to grow veg in outside containers.
They did OK until they started to grow.... then came those slugs.

This year I am trying again with the same containers only this time, I have wrapped copper tape around them.
I also put it around my potted plants and so far... it's working!
There's not a slug in sight and my veg and flowers remain uneaten.

I've got both hedgehogs and sloworms, and a slug/snail population that is out of control :-S
Problem is, I can't put any killer down.

I dread the rain after a few days of sunshine, walking down the path in the dark is a very noisy 'crunchy' affair, that becomes very slippery as I walk on a 'carpet' of snails and slugs :-| :-|

It's really bad this year. If I'm home, I check the cats (especially the long-haired one) when they come in from the garden. 9 times out of 10, they'll be hosting a small hitchhiking slug :-(

Horrible slimy things have eaten all my cosmos for the 2nd year running. :-|

I heard a horrible hedgehog mating noise the other night..........sure enough the two of them were shamelessly having fun on what passes for our lawn.

My husband has made a little house in the greenhouse and we have left food out for them in the hope the female will choose it to have the babies in there as one did a couple of years ago.

They kept the slug population down :-D

The way the one in our greenhouse eats I think he must have to have wheels on that shell of is.

We have one of those too.........a trail of slime leading nowhere. Maybe they are ghost snails :-0

We have a greenhouse where the invisible snail lives.

That's why I made my husband get a greenhouse................I need my windowsills for knick-knacks :-D

I always thought of the people who had the need to have flower pots full of things they were 'bringing on' in their window sills as a bit sad and lacking in some vital ingredient of life.

Oh dear, oh dear.You can't see my window sills for pots and propagators this year. I even have the towel rail switched on under the wet room window for the benefit of the babies.