giant slugs in my garden!!

never noticed that one liz. :D :D :D :D

 

Yes Liz,i think its called Advanced Slug Pellets

 

Poor old slugs - they do get a bad press and mostly undeserved. We went all through this last spring, but for newcomers:

Most slugs eat decaying vegetation only
As Palustris has said, the bigger slugs eat other slugs
The little ones do the damage to your live plants - see post above from Palustris
Slug pellets poison pets
Slug pellets poison the birds, frogs, toads and hedgehogs that eat slugs.
There are effective non poisonous granules like Slug Stoppa which is made by Fito. It works by drying out the slime they glide on. It is rain resistant and works when you sprinkle it around vulnerable plants
Salting slugs is (in my opinion) obscene and cruel. How far down the order of animals do we go before inflicting agony on an animal ceases to be animal cruelty?

 

no they dont hornbeam, they eat my hostas.have you heard of eco recycling it occures in my garden and I have allotments behind my garden fence. get a pond that will do the trick. this year my hostas have not been nibbled. :D :D :D

 

Palustris - you were making that up about some awful slug growing up to 16" long, weren't you? Gad, I'm going to have nightmares. I hope that they stay over there and not come to Germany, ugh.

 

Suppose there might be something nice about this union ?

 

And you just happened to be there with your camera at the time, Nick? :D :D

 

Stand back while I have a rant
The bl**dy stupid slugs have munched all my baby Eryngiums Literally overnight. Actually caught one at it this morning, and it was thrown with some force into the field behind. There's nothing left of my Sea Hollies, just slimy stumps. I'm trying to be organic but these little buggers make it really difficult. GGGGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Feel a bit better now, sorry but had to vent my spleen

 

Liz,

Have you ever thought that the slugs might be 'being returned' in same way that you are getting rid of them?

It might be the same slug all the time getting sick of being thrown about!! lol.

 

Think the one that I chucked this morning probably exploded on impact :D I was soooooo annoyed Love all Gods creatures.... except slugs, vine weevils, chafer grubs........ :D

 

I remember hearing an old saying "If it's black put it back, and if it's brown grind it down" Meaning Brown slugs eat your plants and should be squashed, whilst black slugs eat fallen leaves and detritus and should be left. I don't know how true this is though!

I have also heard of a friends mother who cuts her slugs up with a pair of sissors.

 

Hi Sally B, The gardens into which I throw the slugs are currently not tended, otherwise i wouldn't do it- my neighbour Sheila is shortly having hers 'done', so I won't have to use hers any more... there is still agarden one away from me on the other side which requires a bit more throwing as it is 16' away, which hasn't been tended for 15 years... it's been sold recently but I think I'm quite safe chucking them there for a while :D
Crivens, I have heard this too, but not according to the BBC site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/features/291feature1.shtml
:(
I'm sure one of our members also cuts up his slugs....

 

Eugh!! :eek: Not sure I could bring myself to cut one up. Much prefer playing 'slugs in space' and seeing how far into the field I can lob 'em off a trowel :D

 

hello again. I thought you might like to try something in a book i read to stop the slugs eating plants in pots. It said to stand the plant pot on two bricks in a plant pot tray and then put water in the tray as slugs cant swim.Iam going to try it this year.fingers crossed.Good luck Carolla.

 

You do realise that a large number of slugs actually eat other slugs, don't you?