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...i have just dispatched 18-yes,eighteen...snails to the great hereafter....and if more of the little tinkers come hereafter me little gems they'll go the same way!..... >:(

the rain in spain falls mainly on the plains of lincolnshire.....dunno about an ark for me hens,if this carries on we shall need a real ark for US! :-\

kittypacamac

I have a slug and snail holiday camp up on my plot Kitty.  Eat under cover on prize cabbage and sproutlets then after you have finished go for a swim in the pool full of ale.  Pity they don't understand the rule about not eating before you go for a swim.

Do you know I am usually a gentle peace loving person, but I take no prisoners when it comes to snails and slugs.  I have no compunction at all about getting rid of them.  Once dusk is starting you can see me in the garden with my special wooden stick, which I use to clobber them!  :D "Well Done Kitty"! I have never managed to get as many as 18 at one go before, but that is probably because me and the frogs keep the numbers down!  :D At least at your holiday camp, Redclanger, they die a happy death filled up with ale - very humane of you!  ;D busy_lizzie

i am a true peacenik too-but when it comes to our ale -swilling-lettuce-munchin-cabbage-eating-spinach-chewing-slidin-low -slithrin-fast living slimey- fizzin-salty-snaileeeeeeeeeeeys.....i draw the line!!!!!! ;D


i'd like to teach the world to salt.....a snaily every day
-a slug  for me a snail for you -
and garden peacefully...... ;D ;D ;D ;D


clanger?do you have life guards? :D ;D

busy-we ought to start a snail mashing contest! ;D

I have five alotments behind the house and one damp june evening I saw off over 400 slugs and snails before I lost count, and it wasn't a one off either!
;D

Trouble is, they're like the Hydra of old. You lop  off one head, and two more grow in its place.

i catch bees wasps spiders etc. from the house and set them free outside. i hate to see anyone being cruel to any of gods creatures, but slugs and snails...... i relish the cracking sound as i stamp on snails and have great delight in developing the knack of kind of rolling my foot over slugs while applying increasing pressure until the black gut bag bursts out of the slugs!!

been LOL at you lot. SO funny  ;D ;D ;D

Hold my hand up at using pellets. And eggshells. And coffee. And now velcro (not caught any stuck to it, yet, tho.) And ACCIDENTALLY treading on the odd snail or two :(. But I've never, ever killed a slug or a snail. Pick them up and try to teach them to fly is all. My sis goes out with scissors and cuts slugs in two. Never felt the same about her since she told me that.

Don't seem to suffer much slug damage either. There again, I do use pellets, eggshe.......

yah, me too alishka ;)

i tried to give them a chance last year and threw them over a wall into a graveyard. then i read they have homing instincts and come back!!

A workman at my house once told me that he'd painted numbers on the shells of snails, thrown them to a soft landing 2 neglected gardens away from his..........3 days to get back.

Better sense of direction than me, these snails ;)

I have even turned the kids into murderers!  They like to crunch them  up, or they like to gather them all up, and put them in one of mummys nice big jam jars with a few leaves and hide them in their bedrooms as pets.  Then when mummy is hoovering a few days later and she looks under the bed, she finds a jar full of slimey oozing mess and lots of very poorly snails.  GROSS!

I hate using them, but I have been known to use the odd pellet or two.  I know they are not friendly, and I do try to only buy the friendlier ones, but if I didn't, I would have no garden, or veggies on the allotment.  GGRR!

Quote from: kitty on May 21, 2006, 20:27:48
clanger?do you have life guards? :D ;D

Only useless ones that run around my plot in their bikinis going "Oooooh, there's a snail drownign but I don't want to get my coiffeured hair do wet in those Bateman's slops.

Bloody useless, that's the last time I ask that Hasslehoff bloke for advice.  Still got some useless know it all car on my plot telling me how to put up my bean rigs.

Clanger  ;D  ;D  ;D

Snails get scrunched, and slugs get the snippety snip

Quote from: Alishka_Maxwell on May 21, 2006, 23:36:10
My sis goes out with scissors and cuts slugs in two. Never felt the same about her since she told me that.

:-[

I don't kill slugs or snails. I tried the beer but  felt so guilty. I absolutely could not knowingly stand on one...yeuk ! Scissors...couldn't do that either.  My snails were collected up and taken for a walk with the dog last year and left in a field,I thought that atleast the plants would have time to establish themselves by the time they got back.

Maybe I've watched too much Snailsbury tales.

When I was about four we lived in a little house in East Oxford, next to a Fyffe's banana warehouse. i remember going along the wall, throwing all the snails under the top of it over to the other side. Next day they were back. I just slaughter them.

two melons,four cucumbers,a tray of French beans,Lord knows how many basil plants-and that was this morning-someone had better hide

I've purchased a large divers knife mainly for slug-killing purpose; it has a boot-holster, which is really handy, though it does make me feel like an SAS wannabe.
SAS - Slugs And Snails... hmmm?
We have lots of planks of wood and flat stones around the edge of our plot which we keep there for them to hide under in the dry, so we can just wander around on dry days, turn over the planks... and SLAY!!!! STAB! KILL!!!!
Sorry, got carried away; you should see my girlfriend when she finds a slug on her beloved pumpkins!
- Paddy

As we have a patch of bare earth where I chuck out food for the birds at the moment, any snails I find I chuck on this area.  We are very lucky to have several thrushes visiting the garden at the moment.  They seem to see the snail problem off very effectively.

One of life's imponderables, when you get slugs/snails in the greenhouse, and you have trays of cuttings/seedlings, how do they know that the cuttings/seedlings that you have least of,  and are trying to nurture and increase are the ones to attack?  You may have loads of one variety, but the one you are nurturing and trying to increase stocks is the one they find tastiest?

I had to have a hissy fid earlier this week, when I found a snail had eaten 3 out of 6 cuttings of a variety I was particularly trying to increase.  It got stamped down to the antipodes.  Sods law I suppose!!!

All part of the gardener's rich green pageant.

It is irritating though!!!

valmarg




Ah well, all part of gardenings rich pageant.