Anyone know how to get rid of slugs? Theyve popped up in the past week, probably brought in with some new pine straw....and are all over everything now.
Sorry, no, but EWWW
I'll second that EWWWW...
Filling a bowl or pan with beer is one that I've always heard....the beer has to be replaced continually, because it loses it's effectiveness w/ age and dilution.
Another idea, if slugs are eating your plants, is to make a barrier with sandpaper....the slugs won't cross the scratchy surface.
And, just as a side note....EWWWWW!!!! :biggrin:
Thanks for the tips guys.
Want "eeeewwww??"
Try picking up a pumpkin in the dark and not realizing it is COVERED in them.
Talk about nasty. My neighbors probably thought someone was being attacked in my yard the way I yelled.
Haha, I can relate to that one....when I was in high school, a bunch of us decided to do a little innocent pranking the night before Halloween.....ok, maybe not so innocent. Anyway, we decided to steal a bunch of pumpkins from a huge pumpkin patch and then bust them in front of people's houses that we didn't like. Don't really know what the point was there, but anywho.....I picked out a rather large pumpkin and was running back to the car to toss it in the trunk, when I noticed it had a HUGE slug attached to the side of it....I proceeded to scream bloody murder, tossing it into the air, and having it come down and smash right in front of me, spewing pumpkin guts all over the all black ensemble I was wearing in an attempt to look covert. :biggrin:
Yuck. That reminds me of a horror film I saw as a child...when I was definitely too young to be watching it!
Salt will kill them instantly.
(Check to see if the plants in the bed are salt-resistant, first.)
Doesn't take a large amount to kill them.
I poured some salt on the ones that were on the pumpkin last night...and youre right...they died rather quickly....gross
Ortho Slug-B-Gone, you can find it in the garden section. You broadcast it on the lawn and the slugs are attracted to it and die. The stuff works great.
Or you can wait for the weather to cool of as it has today and they will stop crawling around.
Dang you slug killers! ;D
Or, you can scoop them up in a jar, heat an inch of olive oil (extra virgin) in the bottom of a deep frying pan, pop them in, and, in no time at all, you'll have a crunchy-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside tv snack.
Best with a "big" beer, but can be handled on a cracker w/asiago cheese and a hearty bordeaux.
I don't know whether to laugh or hurl!
Quote from: followsthewolf on October 31, 2006, 04:47:31 PM
Or, you can scoop them up in a jar, heat an inch of olive oil (extra virgin) in the bottom of a deep frying pan, pop them in, and, in no time at all, you'll have a crunchy-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside tv snack.
Best with a "big" beer, but can be handled on a cracker w/asiago cheese and a hearty bordeaux.
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Put a mixture of coffee grounds and egg shells in the path they are using, they will go away.
UGH, those nasty things find their way into my kitchen every time it rains. The girls want to salt them. I just want the things out of my house. Scoop them up in a dust pan..throw them outside, THEN you can salt them. <shiver>
Quote from: pariann on November 02, 2006, 02:04:07 AM
UGH, those nasty things find their way into my kitchen every time it rains. The girls want to salt them. I just want the things out of my house. Scoop them up in a dust pan..throw them outside, THEN you can salt them. <shiver>
Ortho calls it something else now: http://www.ortho.com/index.cfm/event/ProductGuide.product/documentId/7e3c16eadb218bd0533cfadd6f2de184
Gett his and spread some in the crawl space.
Eating slugs is a joke.. right? Please say it is a joke... lol Iwas eating breakfast while I read....
I have also used beer and salt. It works
Thanks for all the other ideas I saw on here. I will try them next spring.
well, in a pinch, I threw salt all over them...and havent seen any since. (I expected to) Im guessing that the people who take care of the yard must have noticed them and put something down...
and I sure hope eating them was a joke...but escargot is supposed to be good, and arent slugs just escargots without the shell?
I'm sorry. What did you say? I couldn't hear you above the crunching!!!!
No legs to peel off. No shells to crack.
Sluuuuurp. Aaaaah. Gulp.
Gotta tell Red Lobster about this!!!
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ewwwwwww slugs and snails aint the same thing... are they?
I think theyre pretty darn similar.
Okay, I should've stayed out of this thread...especially after the night we had last night...*gag*
Does that mean you had a sick kid.....or that you overindulged? :smile:
A sick kid. Haven't overindulged in several years. :-\
Well that's no fun!! :no:
I hate to hear that, hope the rest of you don't all get it as well....that's probably the LAST thing you need right now, in addition to everything else that's on your plate!
Get well soon, Lil Sunny!! :smile:
Thanks, SoccerMom! I really appreciate your kind words. Both of them are sleeping, which is a good thing...for now. :biggrin:
Here, take a SLUG of this cough medicine!
Take two SLUGS and call me in the morning!
I feel like somone SLUGGED me!
I feel like I've been in a SLUGfest!
There now, don't you feel better Sunny? :o
I SLUGly do! :wink:
well, Sunny, once the "bug" is gone and you and hubby sell the house (which Im sure will be any day), its high time you overindulged! ;D
Quote from: followsthewolf on November 03, 2006, 09:24:31 AM
I'm sorry. What did you say? I couldn't hear you above the crunching!!!!
No legs to peel off. No shells to crack.
Sluuuuurp. Aaaaah. Gulp.
Gotta tell Red Lobster about this!!!
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FTW, I do so hope that you are joking.... :-\ *gulp* :sick2:
Yes, it's all an extended joke.
But now that I think about it......................
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Oh, you wouldn't!!! :o
They certainly are plentiful. And they can get reeeealllly big.
Remind me to NEVER answer an invitation to dinner at your house....lol ;D
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ewww....slimy....
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well, Sunny, once the "bug" is gone and you and hubby sell the house (which Im sure will be any day), its high time you overindulged! Grin
I may just have to agree with you there! :biggrin:
At any point that I think about cheating on our challenge. I'm going to come to this thread and real FTW's comments about deep fried Slugs and all desire to eat...will vanish like magic...most definitely. ugh. :biggrin:
Good point, MsMojo!!
Great motivation, FTW!! lol ;D
DE Powder! The stuff they use in swimming pool filters! It's made of tiny shells that have extremely sharp edges.
Sprinkle a little around plants you want to protect and the little buggers won't even try to crawl across it!
wonder if I can sprinkle that around the walls in my kitchen to keep those suckers from coming into my house .