Mud Glorious, Slugs
As you’ve probably heard the weather here in the UK has been pretty awful over the past few weeks. Actually on the south coast we’ve had it pretty easy with only a small amount of localised flooding, so we really have been lucky!
Anyway, one of the side effects of this rather dramatic increase in moisture has been an over enthusiastic growth in the slug and snail population. Now normally I’m a kind of live and let live type of guy, but the bastards ate my lettuces.
In a post that I thought I had made but looking at it I haven’t (so look out for my veg patch post - coming soon) I am trying to educate my (almost) three year old daughter on where things come from; veggies, fruit and meat.
The excessive number of slimy creatures in my garden seemed determined to stop this education process, so I’m trying to despatch these little menaces as humanely as possible.
Any ideas other than beer or slug pellets would be helpful!
We’ve had exactly the same problem, eating my pumpkins, grrrrrrr. I’ve been picking them off by hand but I found the way to destroy them in a satisfying way is to drop them on a tray of salt. Osmosis kicks in and all their inner fluid(weak solution) comes out through their skin(semi permeable membrane), i.e. they leak to death. So you can perform a nice little science experiment whilst eradicating the blighters.
Comment by Tiz — August 3, 2007 @ 2:53 pm
You could try hair!!
Here’s a good article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,951593,00.html
Comment by Tiz — August 3, 2007 @ 4:02 pm
Large boots.
But not near your patio doors, the guts go miles if you stamp hard enough.
Comment by Russ — December 17, 2007 @ 9:47 am