Slimy, creepy, slug...

[Bryony]

When I had my pet rabbits I used to find slugs in their food bowls every morning, so I used to sprinkle salt around the rabbit hutches and that stopped the slippery suckers getting in!! They just shrivelled up and died instead!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

The garden at my last house was infested with the blighter's, my fully grown plants would be OK, got a bit tatty at times but no serious damage, if I planted any seedling I would have to use pellets or they would eat the lot. This place has never had a slug problem, when we moved in I noted the lack of slugs then a few weeks later I found out why, the garden was being visited by a large fat toad, I haven't seen the toad for ages but still rarely do I see a slug or snail.

 

[rich p]

I was lying in the bath yesterday morning when one of them dropped in to join me through the open window. We hadn't even been introduced FFS!

Was a it a small, spotty, floppy creature?

 

[summerdays]

When we lived in an outlying village there was never a slug problem but there was a well fed hedgehog family under the shed.
Now back in the city there are loads of slugs and snails in the garden. But not as many as the neighbors have. Heh.

You do know they are homing snails?

 

[Piemaster]

You do know they are homing snails?

I'm not convinced about homing snails. I reckon it's just that the neighbors dispose of theirs the same way as I do.

 

[fossyant]

Cat food

Come on, cats are way too fussy !

 

[fossyant]

You do know they are homing snails?

Apparently they are. Not tried it yet, but paint them up like 'Turbo' and see if he comes back after you lob them into next door's garden.

 

[fossyant]

Can't bear to leave any beer for beer traps?

Cheap supermarket 49p a can stuff works. You wouldn't drink it. PS empty it out regularly, otherwise you end up with fermented rotting slug slush in the cups - it stinks

 

[theclaud]

Cheap supermarket 49p a can stuff works. You wouldn't drink it. PS empty it out regularly, otherwise you end up with fermented rotting slug slush in the cups - it stinks

You wouldn't. Rich might.

 

[slowmotion]

You wouldn't. Rich might.

Alas, so true...