What can I do?

I planted loads of beautiful new plants at the start of the week in the garden and in tubs by the door. To protect them I put slug pellets down.

Last night's rain has brought them all out. I now have a patio and garden full of writhing, bloated beasties in their final agonising throes of death. And it's all my fault!

I feel very, very guilty.

You are going to burn in hell!

i know its probably not the reaction you were looking for but this post really made me laugh.
i hate the damm things! good on you for getting rid of a few of them

I had a horrible experience trying to kill slug with salt once....
I'd never done it before....
So I did...
Unfortunately...
The salt was low sodium and i presume it's the sodium that gets them...
Dying slug welded to my floor thrashing around for a whole day!


I felt so evil!

Originally posted by Fragonard
You are going to burn in hell!

That was my initial response when I saw the thread title :hihi:

Seriously - I use salt instead of slug pellets; I do have to go hunting the slugs at dusk, though... pre-emptive strike and all that :blush:

They die a particularly gruesome death, which almost makes up for it

Please be careful with the slug pellets - they can be lethal for cats and dogs.

Now bran is suppose to be equally good at slaying the little devils. They eat the bran, bran absorbs fluid, boom!

Sick, I know.

And as for what you do now, well, you've won the war so you need to set up a war graves commission, then you'll probably get hauled in front of the International Court in the Hague on War Crimes charges having used chemical weapons. :)

I guess it's rubber gloves time.....

Joe

Originally posted by Deavon
What can I do?

I planted loads of beautiful new plants at the start of the week in the garden and in tubs by the door. To protect them I put slug pellets down.

Last night's rain has brought them all out. I now have a patio and garden full of writhing, bloated beasties in their final agonising throes of death. And it's all my fault!

I feel very, very guilty. You have been found guilty of being cruel to slugs, you, as punishment must stand in a very damp compost bin untill buds grow out of your a*** sentence is served! you slug killer!!:rant: :heyhey: :hihi:

Originally posted by Deavon
What can I do?

I planted loads of beautiful new plants at the start of the week in the garden and in tubs by the door. To protect them I put slug pellets down.

Last night's rain has brought them all out. I now have a patio and garden full of writhing, bloated beasties in their final agonising throes of death. And it's all my fault!

I feel very, very guilty.

You are going to be sodomised by Satan and Bealsibob in the hell, or Rotherham (your choice)

i just stand on the bloody thing,love to ear them crack, especially if i have just taken them off a half eaten plant

Originally posted by roughy101
i just stand on the bloody thing,love to ear them crack, especially if i have just taken them off a half eaten plant


Slugs don't crack do they? Are you thinking of snails?

But that did leave me with a very horrible memory! My best friend used to go everywhere in bare feet, one night she was walking up her garden path to get something it was dark and she stepped on something and it squelched between her toes. In the morning she went out and there was a slug with her toe prints in! :gag:

Don't worry Deavon, it was their own silly fault! If you hadn't killed them with pellets which are dangerous to cats I'd have sent Smudge round she eat anything dead or alive she'd have cleared the little corpses up for you! She eat moths you know! It's horrible!
And I got a very similar feeling of guilt when I hoovered up a wasp, I'd never hoovered one up before and I'm terrified of them, so I got the hoover out and hoovered it up and felt soooo bad!

Sorry, I think killing anything needlessly is just cruel, especially when people laugh about it being done slowly. Just buy more plants if the slugs eat them.

I guess none of you believe in reincarnation? :|

I've always had a problem with killing insects, bugs and flies....I just think if they were furry mammals it wouldn't happen...but it does because people kill mice and rats etc...

I just can't do it....I used to hate my neighbours so at one time I threw slugs and snails over the hedge into their garden but now they have moved and we have nice neighbours I don't anymore!!

:hihi:

Styrofoam. Slugs and snails can't 'walk' across Styrofoam apparently. Put the pots on a sheet of Styrofoam and stay morally virtuous.

Originally posted by Kristian
Sorry, I think killing anything needlessly is just cruel, especially when people laugh about it being done slowly. Just buy more plants if the slugs eat them.

I guess none of you believe in reincarnation? :|

I certainly don't think that a slug is a reincarnation. (I think that's your point? Maybe not? :confused: )

I have no qualms whatsoever in putting slugs and snails to death - though quite quickly. I even organise snail safaris in my small back garden after rain and by torchlight. I am not spending my money on lovely plants and beautiful flowers just to provide a free lunch for these slimey creatures.

Well done Deavon, don't feel guilty about the fate of the little blighters - they're horrible creatures and I for one used to enjoy hunting them at night armed to the teeth with a salt cellar.

Kristian, Imagine who would be reincarnated as a slug? Deavon could well have just dealt a painful blow to the imortal souls of Idi Amin, Dr Mengles and Pol Pot.- Good work fella!

i'm with swan_vesta on this one. although i have decided to use bark chips in certain areas & they dont like them.however they still insist on climbing to the top of the buddliaaaaaa bush (how do you spell that?) and i'll be damned is i can get a slug pellet to stop up there.

I don't have any problems killing slugs/snails/catapillars/aphids/greenfly, usually I don't have to as I try to encourage other things to eat them, having a small pond with a couple of frogs keeps the slug problem under control most years.

Beer traps are a bit more humane (what a way to go, drowned in beer), or you can sprinkle sharp sand round your plans, they don't like it up 'em.

I hate killing anything even slugs. Simple solution wait until it rains and then go out and collect them. I put them in the local park but I have always been tempted to lob them over the wall into my nasty neighbours garden!

Well even if you do lob them far away, did you know that snails and slugs always go back to the same place?

floyd: I agree. Its their nature to eat plants and we only dislike them because we are materialistic morans who think our plants are more important than a living creature.

If you have tendancies to kill an animal of any kind youve got it in your system to kill!!! Murderers!!!

My dad used to really pee my mum off by putting a line of bird seed down the middle of the garden path and at around 10pm at night it was like feeding time at the zoo. I used to love to sit and watch them. Yes sad I know but I love all creatures no matter how slimey they are.

My mum as two snakes in her garden, one of which is 4 feet long, apparently its got diamonds on its back and the smaller one has horizontal stripes - Ive told her she must ring the local RSPCA cause they might be dangerous.

Back on topic though. Be nice - collect them and put them in the nearest wood or waste ground.

:D

Originally posted by Briano
Well even if you do lob them far away, did you know that snails and slugs always go back to the same place?

Homing slugs ?

Originally posted by nick2
Homing slugs ?

It's true... I used to throw the snails out of my back garden against a brick wall quite far away over another garden. A couple of days later I came out to do the same again and found all the snails had broken shells from the last time!! Yeuch... had to wash me hands well on that day! :D

Okay, I'm going to swim against the general tide of this thread and argue that slugs arn't horrible - they're just slugs!

I'm afriad as an animal lover I find it very hard to condone the use of poison to kill any creature, just cause we humans have labeled it a 'pest'. As you've seen Deavon, they die horrible agonising deaths when they've been poisoned, as do any hapless animals like birds or hedgehogs who happen to eat them.

I'm not trying to make you feel guilty though Deavon, it sounds like you've already learned your lesson!

There are loads of eco-friendly ways to keep pests out of your garden, and I'm sure a quick trawl of the environment/gardening sites on the net will give you a few ideas.

Some plants naturally repel slugs so you could try planting a scattering of those around the garden. And another great tip is to make a point of encouraging a slug's natural preditors into your garden. Start feeding the birds (not too much though or they'll be too full to eat the slugs) and buy a few bird boxes.

Originally posted by JBee
I'm afriad as an animal lover I find it very hard to condone the use of poison to kill any creature, just cause we humans have labeled it a 'pest'.

What about rats, cockroaches, wood worm, mosquitos, tapeworms, head lice ?

I like animals too, but not all of them. I try to deter slugs, but if they won't take the hint it's death by beer I'm afraid.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by nick2
[B]What about rats, cockroaches, wood worm, mosquitos, tapeworms, head lice ?

Used to have a pet rat. Rescued a cute little old woman on holiday by picking a cockroach off her back. Encountered plenty of mossies when travelling but they don't bite me for some reason. They don't like my blood.

Can't comment on tape worms or headlice though, never encountered either of them. But they are actually parasites instead of pests. If I had a tapeworm then I'd have to kill it before it killed me (or made me very skinny!) but killing slugs just because they might eat some flowers you like is slightly less life-or-death isn't it?

It hardly matters either way, waging war on your garden snails and slugs is not going to even dent the yucky, slimey, slodgy population!

Easiest way to get rid of them though I find, is to always have a handy bucket of salt at the back of the garden to drop them into... :thumbsup:

JBee, how would you get rid of cockroaches, if they were in your house, or wood worm, give them a stern talking to ?

Or would you be happy to have them there ?