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[TheGreatWave]

Started a new one.

Need to adhere to guidelines this time though.

Our garden, oddly enough, doesn't get a lot of slugs. I don't think they're keen on the gravel. One of our neighbours has hostas and another has lupins and they never get touched.

It's all looking a bit sad, in the rain. Doesn't help that it's a bit of a building site and there's pikes of topsoil dh need to get rid of.

Spend my afternoon scrubbing the filthy grouting between my kitchen floor tiles and come back to everyone pissed, rioting and pouring salt on slugs. Cheers! 🍷

The cat have brought one slug in - they usually do spiders though - which I hate.

They only have access to catio else we'd be getting rats - we get occasional rat coming into the garden and they seem to be all over estate - might be forest we're near to.

Argh bloody Nicola Sturgeon. So air bridges being agreed by Scottish government feel they should have been considered so may not implement the measures. But these are UK wide as far as I understand it.

I haven’t seen many slugs in our garden here. We lived in a house once where I used to find them on my kitchen floor in the morning 🤢.

@LadyOfTheImprovisedBath

The cat have brought one slug in - they usually do spiders though - which I hate.

They only have access to catio else we'd be getting rats - we get occasional rat coming into the garden and they seem to be all over estate - might be forest we're near to.

Now I can cope with slugs and spiders, but rats... shudder. I have a rodent phobia after waking up one night when I lived in Paris to see a mouse eating a chocolate coin (it was just after Christmas) on my bedside table. And one climbing up my curtains. And once I opened my wardrobe and there was one just sitting on a shelf looking at me. We lived in a beautiful old apartment but there were so many between apartments where the pipes came though and we just couldn’t stop them getting in 😩.

@CruCru

Ugh. The slugs have eaten one of my basil plants.

Slugs hate coffee grounds - fortunately we drink loads of coffee so most of our herbs are now protected. (I wonder if they work on BJ?)

I mostly lurk on these threads as usually start to compose a contribution only for something (usually DD) to distract me and for the thread to move onto something else. Taking a chance on joining in with wine and to share memories of slugs in house share accommodation many years ago. We used to find trails on the kitchen worktops and inside the dishwasher (shudders).

We just watched the new Mary Poppins tonight with DD, quite enjoyed it. Not quite as good as the original of course!

We used to get slugs indoors occasionally in a very ye olde house we rented for a bit. I stepped on one in the dark with MY BARE FEET one night & DH thought I was being murdered.

Anyway beginning to think about summer plans. We've rebooked a planned holiday in Portugal for next year but thinking of doing a few minibreaks around England to break up the summer hols.

Welcome @LittleSwede!

I had to start on the gin early after reading about Sweden supposedly being excluded from the airbridges. Due to fly in 3 weeks to see my mum and was hoping not to have to quarantine ourselves on return. Not sure BA will even fly now

@SomewhereEast

We used to get slugs indoors occasionally in a very ye olde house we rented for a bit. I stepped on one in the dark with MY BARE FEET one night & DH thought I was being murdered.

Anyway beginning to think about summer plans. We've rebooked a planned holiday in Portugal for next year but thinking of doing a few minibreaks around England to break up the summer hols.

I once trod on a snail in my bare feet. Had to get the crushed shell and snail from between my toes.

Thanks Driving!

Eurghhh slugs! I get some but i get more snails. Spend my evenings and nights when i go out back for a 'rollie' plucking snails off plants and pots and hurling them into the wasteland. Did get fed up beginning of the week and poured salt everywhere! My hosta out front is in tatters. Sick of the little feckers. Have bought copper tape to try on pots. Have eggshells in some pots fingers crossed.
Nearly jumped out my skin the other day sitting on the step and something caught my eye...a blooming frog! Must have been under the wheel bin when i put it out. Wish it would make itself useful and eat the damm snails😄

Slugs hate coffee grounds - fortunately we drink loads of coffee so most of our herbs are now protected.

Interesting DH keeps filling the pots with his coffee grounds - would be more useful to put on veg patches.

DH once put his wellies on only to squash a slug who'd made itself comfortable inside one if the toe bits. We don't keep our wellies in the shed anymore!

Slugs hate coffee grounds - fortunately we drink loads of coffee so most of our herbs are now protected. (I wonder if they work on BJ?)
Really? Does the coffee have to be composted first? I thought it had to be. We give away bagfulls at work for gardens. I could get tons of it.😄 will it harm the plants if put on the soil directly in pots do you think?

Here's something awful: I saw a slug devouring a snail the other day. Eurgh.

Even the word is horrible. Slug. Slug. Slug.

Anyway we must stop or @Nihiloxica will never come back again and we can't have that.

We used to find frogs in our shoes.... 😱 Had to start doing frog checks.. the thought of squishing one 🤢

And slugs are so ubiquitous in Seattle they sell rubber ones as souvenirs

@LadyOfTheImprovisedBath

The cat have brought one slug in - they usually do spiders though - which I hate.

They only have access to catio else we'd be getting rats - we get occasional rat coming into the garden and they seem to be all over estate - might be forest we're near to.

My cat is going through a bird and mouse stage, I'm finding dead birds in the garden and live mouse in the house. I don't mind the mice and would happily let them roam free if they didn't chew things. Spiders though... I would be hysterical if she brought them in. We thankfully don't get many in the house and hardly ever get big ones. My head is itching at the thought now!!

I have found bats, frogs and I've definitely come across one rat if not too but all those are unusual.

ProfessorRadcliffeEmerson I spoke with DH who thinks your information is duff or we have some odd slugs.

Apparently only pot with slugs in first thing when he goes out is the one he puts the coffee grounds in - maybe their all hooked on morning caffine pick ups like us .

Though given the size of woodlice here maybe it's our local slugs.

I kept on the woodlice were huge here and everyone made fun so I googled and local species is one the larger species in UK.

A few years ago we had a soggy ending to our camping holiday in Cornwall.
An 8 man tent is a beast to dry out anyway.
My tub of salt was used to despatch at least 30 Cornish slugs that had hitched their way 275 miles north!

Adding to the slug anecdotes, we used to have slugs coming in all the time so I too have stepped on a slug in bare feet.

DH has fixed the slug problem so now the little feckers can't get in. Does the coffee grounds thing work on snails? Little bastards ate my spinach and my cucumber.

@Mascotte

We used to find frogs in our shoes.... 😱 Had to start doing frog checks.. the thought of squishing one 🤢

I was clearing up the leaves out back last year and scooped up a handfull only to find out it was a dead frog on its back!😲😲 (you possibly heard me😄) then there were 2 live ones. Urghhh. I can look at them and admire thier colour etc but if they jump they freak me out. Never used to be bothered as a kid.