A great evening for committing mass murder!

[pembrokestephen]

FFS, the poor slugs n snails are just looking for some scram and they get squashed or chopped in half for doing so Can you not put fencing like wire mesh around your precious plants?

You have presumably not experienced molluscular depredations...?

I was a nature-loving kind-to-small-creatures and leave the slugs in peace sort of person. Then I bought some French Marigolds.

Now it's war.

 

[EastEnder]

I was a nature-loving kind-to-small-creatures and leave the slugs in peace sort of person. Then I bought some French Marigolds.

Now it's war.

Sort of like when Anakin Skywalker got pissed off with the Jedi's and turned to the dark side?

Do you strut about the garden making "horpur" noises and slaying molluscs with a pink light saber?

 

[pembrokestephen]

Sort of like when Anakin Skywalker got pissed off with the Jedi's and turned to the dark side?

Do you strut about the garden making "horpur" noises and slaying molluscs with a pink light saber?

Heh, no. I nudge bright blue slug pellets in front of them and cackle when they take a bite. If they don't, I hit them with a spade.

Like I said, it's war

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I like the beer traps that aqua puts down.

At least the plant eating fuckers die happy

 

[Stobart Stopper]

When I was a kid I was always cutting slugs in half, I thought everyone did that.
We had hundreds of them in our garden and they wrecked my mum's lettuces so I was quite justified in killing them.

 

[aqua]

I like the beer traps that aqua puts down.

At least the plant eating fuckers die happy

what you doing in suburban? get back to cameras and speakers

 

[KeyboardJockey]

Fucking bastard slugs - fuckers ate half of my weed plants last year

 

[aqua]

slugs have eaten my sunflower seedlings, munched some flower plants and threatened lots of other things (and keep being found on my kitchen floor ) but the traps have killed loads which is great

and my little carnivourous plant seems happy too

 

[pembrokestephen]

I like the beer traps that aqua puts down.

At least the plant eating fuckers die happy

Got them, too. We get a pretty good haul, between them, the pellets, and me going around finding where they lurk and beating hell out of them.

 

[vipper]

That's just cruel. I've a good mind to report you to the RSPCA. How would you like it if someone came and smashed your house to pieces, or cut you in half with an axe?

Shall I report that Thrush in my garden? Bastard keeps smashing snails on rocks.

 

[twister]

Shall I report that Thrush in my garden?

*childish giggle*

 

[angelofthenorth]

I've just killed 38 snails and 11 slugs.

My tools were a trowel (for bashing snails - soft shoes don't work except on very tiny ones) and a pair of scissors for snipping the slugs in two (thanks Mrs M for the tip).

Get out there - it's great

In the course of this molluscicide, I discovered why petunias in the flower bed are a really crap idea in a snail-laden garden

Yr evil

 

[gloryhornetgirl]

You are joking. Aren't you?

Half joking.

I do think it's a bit off though - I couldn't bring myself to cut a slug in half. I think they're cute.

 

[Louloubelle]

Wen I had a garden I used to kill them by drowning them in beer

In fact all you need to do is to leave a large bowl full of cheap beer in the garden for them to climb in, drink themselves into a stupor and then drown

Gotta be a good way to go

 

[trashpony]

Yr evil

Yes, yes I am