Grossed out by slugs. On the LAWN fgs

[Walnutshell]

I have searched a read a few very helpful topics on MN regarding managing your personal slug population. I now have shivers crawling up my spine (at least, I hope they are shivers).

Recently moved and in the last house, with a much bigger garden backing onto fields, I can hardly remember SEEING a slug, let alone worrying about it. Now, I have just popped out into our modest back garden and - my god - they are mooching all over the lawn. Is there a reason they do not overpopulate some places? How the heck am I going to mow the lawn?!!! Help, I'm so grossed out by this. I can't bear to go out at dusk picking them up - no no no. Do NOT want to catch ds picking one up or squashing one underfoot, oh sick making.

at least with snails which is the problem we have they don't feel so disgusting to pick up - removed about 30 from under stones on last cull.

Euch, how can you bear it? I'm just too squeamish, it's pathetic. Even with snails I worry about pulling the shell off (puke)

Try having them in your sitting room - EVERY morning.

[heh heh]

yes, wait till they come inside

we are overrun with the little buggers - in fact, I have a special name because of our loo being downstairs and me having to visit it in the night...hang on....

have you tried beer traps or slug pellets?

I sometimes look after other people's houses on our street when they go away and I've noticed their yards are totally overpopulated with slugs too so it must be an area thing

Thanks guys - ugh, shivers.

OK - slug pellets, are they at the lesser end of humane (and do I care?)? I've only lived here for a grand total of TWO WEEKS so give it six months and I'll be salting the beggars. No, actually, CONFESS, once again -too damn squeamish. Ah! I'll be sending DH out with salt...

Choosy - you jest of course...
foxinsocks - no no no!
footinslug - LOL!!! I suspected as much.
Drunkensailor, oh faint... Hmm, my persuasion is dictated by (a) conscience - don't be cruel! and overrided on occasion by (b) ugh! ugh! ugh! get rid of those gross things!

If I ever stand on one, (b) will take over permanently. I am a total wuss.

Agree re the beer thing - what to do with the resulting mess? (Answer: give to husband and don't ask questions)...

I'll be back with a slug update. Shudder.

DrunkenSailor that picture is revolting. Bleuuuggggghhhh...

Walnutshell I share your revulsion on slugs. Quite normal if you ask me. And we've had the odd one in the living room, and generally get them on the kitchen floor overnight. Gross.

Nematodes are supposed to be good but a pain to put down but the slugs eat them then burrow underground, and the nematodes then eat the slugs from the inside out mwah ha ha ha ha haaaaaa.... Better than slug pellets cos you don't get dead slug all over the place.

Two slug threads on the go at once...just shows how much of a pest they are.

The trouble with slug pellets is they may poison things which have eaten the slugs before they die....i.e. birds. Which would you rather kill? A slug or a cute little sparrow? Tho' I do think my birds are too intelligent to eat half dead slugs.

I favour scissors or stamping on them because all other methods (slug pubs/pellets/salt) lead to a slow tortuous death.

Just saw some Westland "Slug Blocker: Slug & Snail Barrier Gel" (heh heh) in Sainsbury's and impulse-bought it. (I know, some people impulse buy shoes, me, it's the slug stuff)

APPARENTLY it is rain resistant; safe to use; and even * degrades naturally. So, it probably doesn't kill slugs, but it's nice and gloopy.

Now then, TricityB, slugs on the kitchen floor - please, you are scaring me entirely. Should I be sandbagging entry ways at night? [puke]

Merlot - scissors, oh god...

we have them in our house bloody things

If you are really mean chuck salt on them and they dissolve .....not that I ever do that of course

Went outside the back door the other day and thought, "gotta be brave, Walnut, get rid of those slugs before ds squelches one of em" so into the kitchen cupboard goes I, reaches for the sea salt (no cheapo table salt for MY slugs, no sirree) and off to face The Enemy............................And, promptly back in again, salt in cupboard. Never seen a salted slug and just wasn't ready.

I am a coward.

i found a dead one in the seal of my washing machine once

I had washed a load of sheets with it

beer traps. bury a jar to its rim, half-fill with beer, it'll be slug and snail stew in the morning. totally disgustin but it works

Oh My Fucking God

I am reporting all these posts they are just obscene.

gag gag gag vom

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the sheets

Walnut - come on you can do it. Here hold my hand and we'll do it together....

Thanks Wilkie, let's do it! Just don't be upset by my wearing a boiler suit sewn to my wellies, balaclava and gloves, it's "just in case"...

Colditz, it's like a compulsion though, you don't wanna read, but yet you do... (The slimy suspense)

As I sit here, sipping my Champagne (posh aren't I?) I am starting to feel a little braver... yep, braver still, rising to full height (5' 2" therefore to be reckoned with) you know, I might just do it! I might just tackle those slugs! I might just - yep, gonna - give DH the slug blocker!

I feel released from the shackles of cowardliness. Ahh.

We get slugs IN OUR HOUSE all the time. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Also I washed a slug the other day. I got a sheet out of the machine and there was a dead slug squished to it. Where IS the 'vom' emoticon?

We sometimes get them in our kitchen - no idea how they get in.

On the odd occasion that I go downstairs during the night to get a drink or something, I have to be careful not to tread on one - yuck, yuck, yuck.

We used to put slug pellets outside the kitchen door which stopped them for a while but since having dd2 (who is 2 now) we don't like to use them.

Walnut - where'd you go??? I'm stood here, salt in hand, welding mask on ready to go!

Sorry, colditz. Belatedly read your post. Believe me, slugs can't gross you out as much as they do me. I really hate them. I once wrote a 'horror story' at school where I woke up in bed and discovered I had turned into a GIANT SLUG.

Wilkie she's gone without you. Run, you might catch up.