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ok after two nights hunting, i have a box of about 50 snails and 30 slugs! (they are now in a salty wet coffin) argh!!!!

but i have found a way of picking up the slugs without touching them, even with gloves on i repulse at this - i am using a peg, you can pick them up and plop them in the liquid, to go to their death, it really works!

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Su, are you cheating by having two threads going on the same subject?
You aren't a real gardener until you can crush a slug in your bare hands, y'know.

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am i cheating, the first was a tip the second was a moan ha ha !!!


i will never ever be a gardener then - yuk i feel sick!!!! ha ha x

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Gardening - A labour of love that begins with daybreak and ends with backache!
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I find chopping them in half with me secateurs quite satisfying...

i just pour the salt on them where they are and watch them sizzle, sick i know but i have plants to worry about

hi rainbowbrite,whereabouts in cov are you ? were plotting up spon end way !

cheylesmore, i see you're too embaressed to put that you're from cov, it's ok i understand

My grandad used to go round his allotment squashing any slugs/caterpillars he found with his thumb & chucking them into a bucket which went on the fire. Truly organic pest control!
I've taken to smashing the snails against a stone & throwing it to the chickens, can't pick up the big slugs though!

not embarassed just useless on a computer !