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I have just spent the last half-hour watching the slugs that have been eating my flowers commit suicide with alchohol.
To be further sadistic, I set up a barrier of salt inbetween the ground and the ledge of the bed. If the slug made it past the beer, it didnt make it past the salt.
Any of ya'll do this kind of thing to repel flower-chomping critters? What are your "tricks"? Or am I simply a slimy slug-slaughtering murderer?
Ha Ha !! How terrible of you to torture those poor sweet litte creatures (). I saw one teetering on a blade of grass - the grass woud sway under the weight of the slug and then slowly lower it into the beer. That's what they get for being such a lush!!!!
Ugh. Slugs are just so yukky and slimy. I think there is something you can buy at a garden store to get rid of them. But from what I understand the beer and/or salt works just as well and a lot cheaper.
I've used both the beer and salt, mainly the salt though. A few years ago, I would walk thru the yard with my box of salt, salting the slugs--turning them into slime. Did you know a few of them managed to peel a slime layer off of themselves, like a layer of skin, in an effort to survive. I just re-salted them.
My most effective slug salting technique was to locate their slug hole, where they would come up from every night, almost like a nest. One night I located it, salted the slug coming out, which promptly died in the hole. After that no more slugs, at least for the last few years.
I know this all sounds cruel, but we're talking about these nasty, destructive slugs.
beware such activities can result in slug PTSD. i wake up sweating thinking of the dozens i slaughered on my bicycle in seattle--- giant banana slugs crossing the sidewalk in herds.
This post reminds me of my childhood glory days of salting slugs and snails! Oh what fun to see them foam and contort themselves! Incidentally, I caught a slug on my precious (frozen and broken) hyacinths, the loves of my life. Not wanting to relive the torture days of my childhood ), I just flicked it off the leaves. Boy Mr. Slug has another thing coming tonight if I ever catch him back there again!
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). I saw one teetering on a blade of grass - the grass woud sway under the weight of the slug and then slowly lower it into the beer. That's what they get for being such a lush!!!!
