Allotments 4 All

Quote from: busy_lizzie on March 17, 2005, 23:39:48
go around the garden  bonking them.

Errm!

Gosh BL!! I didn't know you had a fetish for SLUGS ;D ;D ;D

I suppose its one way to get rid of them...

Bonk & squash 'em to death - what a way to go !!!!!

Debs ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I must be very silly as I do not kill them.  I remove them by hand and put them in a different part of the garden/patio.  They have never really done a lot of damage other than chomp through my cosmos last year.  This year, I will attempt to sow something that can be eaten and expect them to keep at bay !! >:( ::)

Guys!!!  ;D  ;D "Bonking" as in Geordie terminology "Hitting them".  :) busy_lizzie 

.

You could mark the snails shells with Tippex put them in the compost bin then if they did get out and start ravaging your lettuce at least you'd know  ;D

;D

Scissors is best, a good clean quick kill, if you sneak up on the snails you can cut there heads off before they pull them back in.

SLUGS ARE EVIL

im allergic to them

I could never do that it's sadistic.  I use the beer traps.  I know the end result is the same but I couldn't bring myself to cut one or tread on it.  Ugh

Grubs 'n' things down the lottie go temporarily onto a large blue tray (nothing significant about blue - it's just what I happen to have).

If the robin doesn't get them by the time I've finished my stint down there then they get chucked into the neighbour's chickens.  They last approximately 10 seconds once in there.

I'll ask the chicken owner if they're partial to slugs.  If they are, then my problem is solved... (I never use pellets/poisons).

I just can't do it anymore.

I used to chop them in half with a firm blow of the side of the trowel. But I can't anymore. I think it's something to do with the Buddhist part of me. (Slugs don't go to heaven, they get reincarnated as bunny rabbits, if they are good slugs, or a disease if they are bad!)

I leave them for the toads, badgers, foxes etc to do the work for me. And don't grow delphiniums, etc that they like to much (my neighbour grows them, so I gaze at hers instead!) non-slug-proof veggies, such as lettuce, are grown in pots, with fleece covering. And I'll be watering my beds with coffee before sowing. Reminds me... how much do I need? Where's that post?

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/yabbse/index.php/topic,3036.0.html  This help Aqui!

Thanks Doris.

I feed the slugs to the chickens but intend to put some of the frog spawn from my home pond into a sunken bath on the plot and let nature do its think.
Phil

Oooh,like the frogspawn idea.  I dispatch slugs and snails with the 'slug dispatcher'.  It's a kind of hand held pick-axe-cum-trowell-thingy.  Great for seed drills and squishing nasties.
Bags

That's another job for tomorrow - sink something suitable for frogs - sound like a fantastic idea.

Will still be sinking a few beer traps though. :)

A4A Organic Gardening Book
Chapter 1 : pest control
Slugs snails and caterpillars

Equipment

Low Maintenance Technique
a marg tub  and Beer (or a fermented bag of real ale)

Manual
latex gloves, a bucket & a torch (very satisfying)
Size 7-11 boots (crunch---ooooo)
a trowel (could I use a wooden spoon?)
a hand held pick-axe-cum-trowell-thingy (cool)
a spear (for spearing them of course)
Scissors (those poor snails-it makes me cringe, squirm and giggle all at the same time)
an evil laugh (optional)
a "Bonking" stick (no  comment)

Ecological Control
Frog’s spawn
1 robin,
2 thrushes,
chickens,
toads,
badgers,
hedgehogs,
foxes (foxes??)

Chemical Control
coffee

Extras
a piece of slate,
Tippex
a road,
cars,
a railway
a fence to throw them over

Essentials
a dictionary of Geordie terminology
1  large blue tray

Thanks too all.

Foxes eat slugs, snails and worms when other food sources are low - that is why they will somtimes grub up seedlings.

you mean when there is not KFC or old kebab scrapings that have been chucked over the fence by passers-by !h