101 ways to get rid of slugs

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101 ways to get rid of slugs
gnusmas
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Do you think we can do 101 ways of getting rid of slugs? – just because

1. Pick up and slam them between two bricks
2. (a pretty micarbe one) – collect loads and stick them in a blender then paint around the area that they are in with juice, its like vlad the impalier they don’t like sensing death of their own kind.
3. Beer traps
4. Keep any areas free of places for them to hide.

Posted 13 years ago

greasystain
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Does number 2 really work?

Posted 13 years ago

greasystain
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5. A ring of salt

Posted 13 years ago

Grimy
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6. crushed egg shells, they wont cross them
7. balance them on a banger, light, run, Bang…..SPlat!
8. Ferrets. They love em! perticually fond of beer soaked ones. (they keeps cats out too for an added bonus!)

Posted 13 years ago

Rivett
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Tame hedgehogs.

Posted 13 years ago

Bushwacked
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There is no way I’m blending up slugs – so any more ideas on how to paint something on to stop slugs climbing walls?

Posted 13 years ago

jedi
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anti vandal paint is made from slugs

Posted 13 years ago

Bushwacked
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really??

Posted 13 years ago

jedi
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got you there 🙂 🙂

Posted 13 years ago

uplink
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9. Copper pipe – they won’t cross it

Posted 13 years ago

gnusmas
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LOL @ jedi 8)

Posted 13 years ago

ononeorange
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10. Napalm.

11. Laser death rays

12. Thermonuclear explosions.

All the above are still too good for them.

Greasystain – A RING of salt? Two flipping tons of salt, surely?

Posted 13 years ago

Bushwacked
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👿 @ jedi

Posted 13 years ago

phil.w
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13. My dog. (she’s available for hire)

Posted 13 years ago

jonb
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slug pellets?

Posted 13 years ago

WorldClassAccident
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SLightly different but for sanails.

They are all beginning to cluster for semi-hibernation. If you find where they are hiding there will probably be loads in one place. I moved a couple of paving slabs that were leaning against the fence and found about 60 snails all stuck to the back.

Now all splatteded against a tree just over the back fence. It is quite funny watching the birds trying to eat the slug remains from the side of a big oak tree when they have nothing to stand on. Black birds cannot hover

Posted 13 years ago

MrCrushrider
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a good squirt of disc brake cleaner – gets a bit expensive but works a treat!

Posted 13 years ago

SurroundedByZulus
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Heres 50.

Posted 13 years ago

StuF
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14. Spike them with a trowel
14a. then put them on the bird table just to be sure

Posted 13 years ago

Bushwacked
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15. Step on them with bare feet – its one my wife particularly likes especially in the middle of the night.

Posted 13 years ago

catfood
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Bucket of salty water, torch and a set of chopsticks works for me, have a potter round the garden at night. get rid of the big ones so they cant breed.

Posted 13 years ago

LoCo
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A mate whose a professional gardener, reckons slug pellets are the only way to go, the ‘eco’ ones from ‘the green gardener’

Posted 13 years ago

jimmers
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Leave you trainers outside, wait till the next day to go for a run, put trainers on, squelch…

Posted 13 years ago

soobalias
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beer traps, slops free from the local, then the birds/hedgehog eat them and benefit from the beer too.

Posted 13 years ago

headfirst
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Put slug on drive. Stamp* on slug. Job done.

*When stamping on slug be sure to do this in a hopping motion, so as not to get slug entrails on your non-stamping shoe or trouser leg.

Posted 13 years ago

Ax3M4n
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A Flymo. Does a lovely job of skinning them alive, depositing sloughed skin to the left and squidgy internals to the right.

Posted 13 years ago

DrRSwank
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Garlic, butter, frying pan.

Lets face it – they’re just homeless snails…….

Posted 13 years ago

imnotverygood
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Nematode worms are absolutely brilliant (look up Nemaslug). However you don’t get the staisfaction of personally killing the slimy little b*stards

Posted 13 years ago

gazc
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slug sushi! 😯

Posted 13 years ago

DT78
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My mother bought me a book with this exact same title last xmas….

Posted 13 years ago

PeterPoddy
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Nooooooooooooooo!!

I shall have nightmares about slug sushi for evermore now!

What is seen cannot be unseen!

Posted 13 years ago

Twin
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Ask them politely to leave?

Posted 13 years ago

jimmers
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Lets face it – they’re just homeless snails…….

What did the slug say to the snail?

Big Issue…

Posted 13 years ago

gnusmas
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slug sushi!

seeing as sushi is raw food, does this mean the slugs are alive? surely they can’t be cooked as that would go against sushi etiquette!!!

Posted 13 years ago

dmoffitt90
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101. Own them with a set of bombers

Posted 13 years ago

Gee-Jay
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Bushwacked – i’m with you little sods are getting on my carpets somehow & short of waiting until 03.00 to pick up any I can find there seems little way of getting ride of them.

A trail of salt on floorboards or tiles but slimed slug is very difficult to get out of a carpet

Posted 13 years ago

Bushwacked
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Yeah – the slugs in our house hid inbetween the cracks in the bricks under the floorboards and only come out at night! SO can’t put salt or pellets down as there is no where to put it.

Posted 13 years ago