can slugs regenerate?

[bubblewrap]

They don't regenerate when I have finished with them. Their guts being all over the floor sees to that.

They don't care too much for a size 9 Doc Martin either.

[Salina]

I know Paul, pathetic isn't it, but they are sort of cute with their little eyes on stalks. I am a vegetarian and hate to kill anything living, simple as that, hence my quandry.

same here lol, I too think their little stalks are cute I can't even bring myself to kill the massive beetles that run across my bedroom floor sometimes (they come in under the door) I put one outside the other night lol.

[veg4681]

When the slug pellets don't kill em', I crush them with a stone to make sure they're well and truly dead.

I don't mind so much when slugs are nibbling away well established vegetables that you're already harvesting in plentiful amount, it's when they attack young seedlings that you desperately need for them to grow bigger and stronger that is stressful and very annoying. So sorry no guilt here.

[Soldierfire]

The diatomeceous earth can be dusted near your vegetables and walk ways and need not be applied any where you do not want to affect the insects. It is not expensive. I dont like to kill anything without a reason. Salad to me is reason enough.

[October]

Slugs and snails

I don't know if the ones from my yard regenerate or not as I have perfected the art of throwing them so far they hit the wall of the disused auction rooms next door but one. I suppose there could be a little colony there......

[jools]

I don't think there is any point in relocating them - by lobbing them over the back wall or otherwise. I heard of someone doing an experiment a few years back. They marked each snail shell with a dab of tippex before lobbing them over a wall. Some snails had numerous spots of tippex on them before more drastic action was taken!

Unless of course, you intend to take them for a several mile drive in the car.....

I understand your reluctance as I used to be like that but once my garden had been laid waste a few times, a state of war was declared.
Jools

[MIDDLE AGED BEGINNER]

no slugs outside

even as a beginner i am proud to say i have no problems at all with slugs in the garden [except in compost bin which i have learned is ok]-- oh no, i have them in the front room and dining room! we have virtually ripped the place apart trying to find where they come in- normally all you see is trails but there are occasions when up and about at night that you see them, or worse still plant a bare tootsie on one. i have researched the problem and nobody can give me a permanent answer- tapes and pellets etc have not touched them. any more indoor slug treatments would be most welcome!!

[Two_Sheds]

I know Paul, pathetic isn't it, but they are sort of cute with their little eyes on stalks. I am a vegetarian and hate to kill anything living, simple as that, hence my quandry.

Being vegetarian has no relevance to killing slugs...unless you eat them of course.
I'm a vegetarian, and the way I see it, they're eating my dinner. So off they go - snipped in half, salted or thrown to the chooks.