OMG! Snail INVASION! Bastards everywhere!

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The slime trails are the least of my concerns. It's the young plants those bastard fatties are chomping to death that's pissing me off.

And they've started on my tomatoes and that means war.

Sell them to Gordon Ramsey

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The slime trails are the least of my concerns. It's the young plants those bastard fatties are chomping to death that's pissing me off.

And they've started on my tomatoes and that means war.

There's some stuff that I remember seeing on my window ledges when I was young to stop pigeons taking up residence. Apparently they would get stuck to it and die.

It looked like pale pink toothpaste.

Maybe you could try that as a barrier?

 

[5t3IIa]

My slugz are coming from the corner between a panel & the skirting board - I plugged it with rolled up newspaper which has evidently fallen out now...or they shouldered it out of the way

So I can put salt and eggshells on the carpet but what do I put on the wall to stop them circumventing them? Do they hate scrunched up tin foil?

I have some tin foil left over from dealing with my mice

 

[5t3IIa]

dp

 

[selamlar]

If you have got slugs or snails inside, you best bet is to say bollocks to environmentalism and get some metaldehyde down. Won't be so bastard clever then.

Unless of course you have pets or children cos that stuff is fairly bloody toxic

 

[5t3IIa]

If you have got slugs or snails inside, you best bet is to say bollocks to environmentalism and get some metaldehyde down. Won't be so bastard clever then.

Unless of course you have pets or children cos that stuff is fairly bloody toxic

Like, how? A saucer of it? More advice, man!

 

[jayeola]

I use washing up liquid. Just leave trails of it all over the place and it kills them. I dunno how you picked them all up though - yuck!

Failing that you could use of one these...

 

[selamlar]

Slug pellets, innit. or that funny foam stuff. Put it down on milk bottle caps or the like so it don't get everywhere. Place said cap in an area where there are a lot of trails and wave goodbye!

 

[AnnaKarpik]

You could just go out every night with a torch and collect every one, saving them in a lidded container to dump elsewhere. Believe me, it works.

We were so overrun with snails at one time that shutting the outside door after night fall became an act of snail murder on a horrible scale; imagine upwards of 15 snails crushed into the space between the door and the post. Yeuch! Then my kids and the girl down the road started playing a game called snail farm which involved four kids collecting all the snails they could find into a bucket. I don't think they actually deliberately killed them but the snail population has never been the same since.

 

[editor]

You could just go out every night with a torch and collect every one, saving them in a lidded container to dump elsewhere. Believe me, it works.

That's my plan!

There's got to be a limit as to how many of the feckers can live on our tiny balcony.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Just the whole crunch thing and the feeling of them under foot.

Use a hammer, then!

 

[bluestreak]

Oh, I even put in a few little airholes.

Pathetic, isnt it?

not at all. it's what i'd do. i still ahve nightmares from when i was a kid and my dad used to go out to his vegetable patch the morning after rain and collect all the snails in a bucket. then he'd dig a hole, pour the snails into it, and fill it in again. the horror, the horror.

 

[cillaB]

pick them off and lob them into night. As far as I'm concerned, every snail that dies is another bean for my pot

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

EGSHELLS, my friend. EGGSHELLS.

I used to work in a cafe and the chef swore by them. He'd keep all the egg shells and bung them in the oven at the end of the day. He'd then crush (but not too fine) them up and sprinlke it around his alotment borders.

The snails hated crawling over it so they kept away and his veggies flourished!.

Eggshells my freind. No dead slugs/snails in sight.

 

[guinnessdrinker]

snails and slugs are trolls and love this weather. deal with them like the trolls and spammers on the boards.

 

[madamv]

My slugz are coming from the corner between a panel & the skirting board - I plugged it with rolled up newspaper which has evidently fallen out now...or they shouldered it out of the way

So I can put salt and eggshells on the carpet but what do I put on the wall to stop them circumventing them? Do they hate scrunched up tin foil?

I have some tin foil left over from dealing with my mice

The prob ate through the newspaper. Try filling it with proper filler stuff.

I have read this thread with hope of a new cure. I have just been and pulled about a dozen off my plants. I just cant kill them. I am such a sap. However, my bubs is currently playing with them and making them a house. At 4, she is bound to accidentally squash a few eh?

I have some salt to put down when the bloody rain stops coming every couple of hours, and I have a beer trap which seems to work the best. But how do they get through two layers of netting that has been pinned down with stones? Bloody things.

Will get hub to get some sharp for me tomorrow. Try that on for size fuckers

 

[oryx]

I have got about 450 of the slimy squidgy horned little bastards in my compost bin.

I have a work colleague who is deeply phobic about snails - the sight of this would probably put her over the edge.....

 

[DrRingDing]

You can buy sacks of broken up shells and then make a border of them around your plants.

Worked well for me until a fox dug them up

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

You can buy sacks of broken up shells and then make a border of them around your plants.

Worked well for me until a fox dug them up

sounds like a good idea! LIke eggshells only sturdier.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Oh, I even put in a few little airholes.

Pathetic, isnt it?

No not at all, quite the opposite

 

[pembrokestephen]

Is it possible to repel a snail

<makes this her thought for today>

Hair. Crushed egg shells. Electrified copper wire - I'm thinking of trying out an experimental version of this at about 12 volts, then upping it until their shells explode. Things that are dessicant.

"Keep Out" signs don't work, because most snails are illiterate.

 

[pembrokestephen]

They were effortlessly sailing over the copper rim around one of the plants last night, the bastards.

I'll try the grapefruit idea soon, but I'm not keen on giving the slimy fuckers some of my ale.

Get some of that Tesco Value 2% shit. I reckon snails are chavs, anyway.

I've been saving the trub from my homebrewing as slugbait, and that works a bloody treat. Muahahahaha.

 

[Gavin Bl]

couldn't you just chuck them over the side, they are so light that they will survive the fall.

 

[Gavin Bl]

couldn't you just chuck them over the side, they are so light that they will survive the fall.

 

[pembrokestephen]

couldn't you just chuck them over the side, they are so light that they will survive the fall.

Nah. Hurl them at your balcony in such a way that the shells are smashed, THEN they bounce out and fall hundreds of feet to obliteration.

Then take off and nuke them from orbit, just to be sure.

 

[davesgcr]

Bloody things have dined on my beans and courgettes - this means war !

All that work in raising seeds ......will have to buy plants to replace them.

 

[editor]

Me and Eme had two sweeps of the balcony tonight and another 40 or so were bagged up.

They're getting smaller, so I reckon we could be winning this war. The managed to more or less kill a sunflower that was coming through and fatally wound a new plant or two so I'm getting a lot less inclined to be gentle to the fuckers.

 

[scumbalina]

It's a bit pathetic how I got rid of them last night. The bigger ones I lobbed into a nearby school field, but the rest I put into a plastic bag, shoved in some leaves and then binned them.

Yay! Not pathetic, just nice. (Goddam it, if smilies were working I'd use one!)


I'm sure someone I know did a little rant somewhere on how to get rid of the fuckers, I'll have a rummage in the morning.

 

[Radar]

That's my plan!

There's got to be a limit as to how many of the feckers can live on our tiny balcony.

Have a look underneath any nearby flat surfaces (assuming they aren't under the balcony itself )

They hide out during the day to avoid drying out.

 

[pembrokestephen]

Me and Eme had two sweeps of the balcony tonight and another 40 or so were bagged up.

They're getting smaller, so I reckon we could be winning this war. The managed to more or less kill a sunflower that was coming through and fatally wound a new plant or two so I'm getting a lot less inclined to be gentle to the fuckers.

I wouldn't suggest you deliberately cause them suffering, but why are you inclined to be gentle to them at all?

I mean, it's not even as if they're fluffy or cute, is it?



Or, maybe...

Editor's balcony, yesterday