Slugs and snails needing new homes - no reasonable offer refused

[Fragglewump]

I'm a fledgling gardener - literally planting random stuff and hoping it works. So far when my teenagers 'helped' me to transplant some seedlings (preferable to hiding in their bedrooms) they crushed several butternut squash stems and the plants withered and died. Then I snapped the stem of one of my beans and once I'd planted out my pumpkin it started blowing a hooley and broke the stem clean in half (I shoved it back in the soil in the vain hope that it might root and grow??)
Yesterday we noticed that one of our plants had 6 snails on it.........so we went out and collected as many as we could see - around 20 + and put them in the bin. It was a grim job and I'm livid that they are eating my new veg but also I don't like the idea of killing them. So if anyone would like to receive a bumper pack of snails and slugs just pm me your address and they will be on their way! or just tell me the best way to get rid of the blighters! oh and slugs......they are even worse - slimey, squishy, soil coloured creatures that are hard to spot and don't have a convenient hard shell to pick them up by.....bleurgh!

Get a pond for frogs to breed in, and encourage birds like thrushes.

Frogs eat slugs. Although I can't imagine they'd take on some of the monsters in my garden. It would be like some sort of mythological battle.

We keep getting slugs in our kitchen. I have accidentally trodden on a couple by going in at night - luckily in socks not barefoot - as we currently have no light in there due to building work. Yuk!

I have had disappointingly low yields - went out yesterday after the rain and got a handful, and again this morning. I have bought 100 latex gloves to use to pick them up and I'm using ziplock bags. There's just something about them that makes me want to heave. I will prevail though - seeing them munching my baby pumpkin plant gives me the rage!! Does anyone know if you can use nematodes while your veg is growing or does it have to be an empty bed?

Haha I love this thread. I was most excited when the first green shoots of our recently planted carrots started poking through the soil, only to find a slug enjoying a chomp the next morning. Little shits! Anyway my son now enjoys flinging them over the back fence with his plastic spade. I feel a bit wrong and somewhat murderous for showing him the salt trick but he enjoyed that too. I was worried they might just come back if we kept flinging them? How far do they travel? Are they nomadic or do they have a terratory? also currently growing a pond full of tadpoles so when the hungry little frogs emerge hopefully they will get fat on the abundant molluscs!

I found the original story: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10856523

Apparently you need to take them >10m away.

Oh no! Research from 2014 (more recent) saying it is 20m+ and even then they might still get home: www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/16/snails-homing-instinct-overcome-move-20-metres-away

Like I said, kill, kill, kill!

I'm getting tooled up for this war of attrition. Every time I walk past my poor pumpkin and courgette more slimey suckers are chomping away on them.