How do you dispose of live slugs and snails?

[RaffertyFair]

If you go out in the evening and collect the little blighters - how do you dispatch what you collect? Bearing in mind I like my neighbours, so hurling them over the fence is not an option

I currently add them to the slug pubs that I also have in situ but snails slither out ...

I have just watered in nematodes so have a longer term strategy but there are still lots to pick off .

Lob them on the garage roof as a sky burial for the birds. The buggers probably just crawl right back though.

I'm afraid I drop slugs into salty water. They seem to die quickly. I squish snails and leave them for the birds. I feel sorry for the snails but not slugs [shudder].

Hurl onto roof of derelict garden next door.

Snails come back, they have some sort of homing instinct. There was a woman who did a study of them over the course of quite a few years marking shells and seeing how far she had to take them before they lost their way. It was a looong way! She won a prize for her study, I heard about it on R4 about 10years ago, so I stopped bothering to chuck snails back then.

Your best bet is to get a hedgehog or chickens or something.

@jux this is what I have long suspected. Keep seeing them thinking “I recognise this arsehole”

I put them in a bucket of salt

My mum was brought up in France. Every time it rained she and her siblings would go out and collect the snails. They'd be kept in a tank with clean water but nothing else for about 3 days, by which time they'd been cleaned out, whereupon they'd be cooked with plenty of garlic and butter and given to the children for a treat! You could try that.

I knew hurling would be in there

And I too feel differently about snails but it's illogical!

Thanks all. It might need to be salty water then instead of cheap lager ...

Out of interest Jux do you follow your grandmother's method ?

FantailsFly I do that too.

Years ago I used to have a knife kept especially for stabbing them. Their little and not so little sluggy friends would eat the casualties and I'd slaughter them as well. I once had about 100 in one night.

I don't get that many slugs now even though my vegetable growing has gone up a few notches.

We launch them onto passing lorries ...
A bit time consuming but they are unlikely to make it back

We take them to a meadow at the bottom of our garden. I can't kill them!

I put them in the compost bin. Is that awful?!

Snails get lobbed, slugs are chopped in half with a trowel.

I vaguely remember reading that you have to lob snails at least 65' away so they can't find their way back.

EdWinchester if only I had a handy meadow or marcus2000's passing lorries

If you salt window frames and doorways they can’t get in (or more likely they explode before they get in)

I throw them into the neighbour’s garden. I don’t like our neighbour!

I put them in the council garden waste bin so the council can take them away for me

Either throw them in the neighbour's (totally overgrown and uncared for) garden or put them in the council garden waste bin.

I used to kill them outright. But the wannabe Buddhist in me felt terrible about it. Now I put them in my council brown bin. I know that they are going to die it it's not me doing it!

I've done that too ToManderleyAgain but found that too many remain clinging to the sides and lid after emptying! Or my bin is jam packed so the lid doesn't completely close and the buggers slime their way out!

I get my 2 yr old DS to hunt for them in the garden then we take them down to the train tracks about 100 yards away and release them.

Once, I collected a whole load in a plastic flower pot and ran over them with my car!

My grandmum in law swore by scissors but I can never bring myself to actually do it.

Neighbor’s garden