slug eggs or fertilizer??

Now I know it should be obvious but to me its not!!!Last night i was searching about to see if there were any slugs around my nice new plants. Right where i planted one there was some of that slow release fertilzer in the soil -little yellowish balls about 2-3 mm round. Also there were some other little balls about the same size but a different colour. when i squished some of these a fluid came out. Is it possible that they were some kind of moisture retentive stuff put in by the garde centre or could it have been slugs eggs? I must dmit that when i thought it was slug eggs i ran back in and washed my hands about 5 times!!

 

Slow release fertiliser is normally evenly distributed thoroughout the compost (or certainly should be) and opaque, a yellowish brown or off white colour. Slug eggs are white, somewhat smaller, semi-tansluscent and normally laid in clusters although they are easily disturbed.

 

There are also green coloured slow release pellets too.

 

well whatever they were they were filled with some type of fluid.Wish I had taken a photo

 

Old, slow release pellets sometimes have fluid just before they completely break down. Slug eggs would have a bit of give in them before they squish whereas the fertiliser pellets would be fragile in a crispy sort of way.

 

yuk!