Whats the least painful death for slugs?

Apart from sounding completely bonkers, I want to know how to get rid of slugs if you dont use pellets as Im not sure it wont hurt other animals no matter what the manufactorer says.
I go out on wet nights with bucket and lamp and have tried putting them in a bag with pellets and hosta. Unfortunately forgot about them and they were left outside all day at 30degrees. Horrible way to go.
Next one is putting salt on them but Im not sure its that quick and painless.
Drown them in salted water. Thats what Im doing
at the moment. As Im collecting about 100 a night how do I dispose of them? I threw it at the back of garden and it killed my 5 yr Choisa. Salt water I suppose.

 

I always put mine in the green bin dead or alive and let the council sort them out! :D

Not a good idea to use salt as you will kill your plants and you still have to clean-up the terrible mess!

Helen.xxx.

 

Jean, get some liquid slug killer, you water over the plants and the ground. You can`t see it you can`t smell it and children and pets are not going to be harmed. David.

 

We found this big orange slug having a good chomp on a fallen pumpkin today. Hubby put salt on it.

 

Got to be the Beer Trap method. At least they die happy :D

 

Tread on em at least that'll be a quick death! or use slug pellets I do and I've got a dog and the neighbours cats are still alive (worst luck)! and I get plenty of birds in the garden, none of them have died.

 

It would taste even better with some vinegar as well as the salt Kedi. :D

 

Hi, T O. I do that accidentaly when I'm going outside. Does tend to make you slip a little bit. :D

 

I can understand standing on a snail but a slug ?!! No thanks doesnt it go squelchy?
The animals I was bothered about was hedgehogs and frogs eating the snails when poisoned. Is there any info that says they are safe?

 

There are some slug killers that profess to be pet and wild life friendly, but I just won't take that risk. My visiting toads and thrushes are too valuable to risk.

There are nematodes that can be useful against slugs, but otherwise I use the pick them off and into the green waste method - or polythene bag when pushed. This year with all the rain its been a slug heaven - but my toads et al have done well too. Mostly I just let slugs, snails and pretty well every other pest except lily beetle well alone. With the latter they are squished.

Yes I have a few holed leaves, but in the main the natural balance seems to work for me.

I had the lovely sight of aphids covering my rose buds early this year, but twasn't long before the tits and sparrows found them, and within a week of that, I couldn't find one

 

Hi compost maker,

Nice to read your question. Salt is cruel in my mind, stamping on them sadistic and poisons can affect other creatures.

You are getting a large amount of them so I'd recommend the nematodes method or encouraging the birds into the garden who will feast on them - RSPB has advice on this. My last resort is subscribing to the saucer of beer which as mentioned disposes of them drunk!

TO

 

I would be careful using the all singing all dancing nematodes and slug pellets, nematode research has come a long way but there are some dangerous ones out there they are after all parasites, they are not one hundred percent species specific don't forget there are some slugs that eat other slugs you kill these to, you pass on these parasites to other species by them eating them as you do the poison in slug pellets, think about it do you believe whats written on the packet. don't forget d.d.t and thousands of other products were all safe once, I am 100% behind Fran on this one.

 

I use this method mostly late at night and try not to fall on my a**, in the mornings I pick up the corpses...it gives a whole new meaning to Slug Heaven! :D
Helen.xxx.

 

Mackem - ugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

 

I saw this tip on the tele the other night. When you empty your coffee percolator use the grounds and spread around your plants, the slugs get caught up in it and die, although whether it is painful or not they didn't say