Slugs

Think I'm going to send the sluglady a box of them...........

 

Appolgies to the late Jo Strummer.

 

lo que usted dice

 

Something about passion for the slugs I think.

 

Last year I was out every evening collecting slugs from the veg plot, and as an average I was collecting 250 a night. I did have a helper though, the fox that lives at the end of our garden. He would follow me around each evening often making me jump when he sneaked up and sniffed me. As I collected the slugs I would throw them to the fox to eat.
A win win situation, but sadly I haven't collected any this year, and other than potatoes, onions and garlic, the veg plot is bare.

 

4 dead 1 still imbibing will leave in-situ till tomorrow
Sun shining at mo so will be out with cans and tubs later

 

I tried some Asda Smart Price lager at 25p a can. My best trap was an empty chopped tomato tin, filled 30% with the lager. A mix of the remnants of tomato and the lager worked a treat. I can't think of a nicer way to die really for the slugs. Plus my slug pellets are bright blue, which is both attractive to animals and children, not quite sure what they were thinking!

 

Ummm cans might be better as used empty ice cream tubs like ziggy, but me thinks might be too shallow, one tub has about 12 dead andanother none ,depends where sited ?? need to be near a food scource i think.Need more beer back in supermarkets tomorrow for cheap beers, bin man must think I have gone alcoholic

 

Don't put em out for the bin man, especially if they are aluminium.

Squash em & take them down the scrappy once a year.

Emptied the traps yesterday afternoon, went out last night to find a slimey mess of slugs feasting on their fallen comrades. Seems slugs full of beer are even more atractive to live slugs than lettuce (which they ate as well of course)

 

Take me 2 years to fill a bag !!!

 

http://www.letsrecycle.com/prices/metals/aluminium-cans

 

How many cans in a ton

 

Between 48,000 & 70,000 depending on the size. I usually keep my eyes open for any other bits of aluminium to lob in. That & the steel I colect up over the year usually come away with about £75 a time.