Comments on: The war on slugs

By: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:32:19 +0000

[...] you like this book, you may wish to learn more about alternative methods of Humane Slug Control - a product called Slug Lady claims to have the answer by using salt (but not on the slugs [...]

By: Garden Hero

Garden Hero — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:52:37 +0000

haha..This post made me think of summer, 2 years ago, where my mother and her neighbors had a competition on who could kill the most “orange killer slugs” in 14 days. It was pretty much all they ever talked about. My mom giggled everytime she talked about her latest killing spree. She put them in a bucket, and salted them into oblivion.

By: Ian Wardle

Ian Wardle — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:33:08 +0000

Putting a small (about 1/2 inch high) barrier ribbon of zeolite (a volcanic mineral) around the plants you want to protect. It is coarse (irritating to the slug), a powerful desiccant (when dry, absorbs the moisture in their slime so they can’t move past it), is OMRI-certified (organic), inexpensive and it good for your garden. It’s also safe to use around pets and other animals and won’t pique their curiousity because it has no attractant factor.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 01 May 2009 05:42:31 +0000

You know what? Melt the motherf***ers with salt, then shoot them with a beebee gun, and to finish them, off crush them with thet heel of your jack boot and throw them in the bonfire. They have no beneficial purpose for gardeners, and they make for lousy escargots. Pussies.

By: Adriana

Adriana — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:43:58 +0000

Once I spit out a slug. They don’t phase me anymore. =)

By: john

john — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 01:35:30 +0000

Is this true of slugs? After the penis is eaten and the male becomes female is it able to reproduce?

A commonly seen practice among many slugs is apophallation, when one or both of the slugs chew off the other’s penis. The penis of these species is curled like a cork-screw and often becomes entangled in their mate’s genitalia in the process of exchanging sperm. Apophallation allows the slugs to separate themselves. Once the penis has been removed, the slug remains female for the rest of its life.

By: Girl Gone Gardening

Girl Gone Gardening — Wed, 10 May 2006 02:33:16 +0000

Get some toads. I have seen but only one slug in three years in my garden…..I have a LOT of toads, and very little insect damage.

By: B

Wed, 10 May 2006 01:32:20 +0000

i couldn’t agree with you more. organic gardening is all about being respectful to nature – including slugs. i don’t like them eating all my strawberries but killing them isn’t a very compassionate answer, imo anyway. i try to make my garden inhospitable to them by keeping the keeping long grass trimmed, and large rocks and debris that they can sleep the day away under far away. i also make a point of moving planters, pots, and any garden cloth in the mid-spring, just after their eggs have been laid to make sure they don’t hatch. i rack all the leaves in the spring. i pick them off of plants or grass and move them far away (i am lucky to have an abandoned yard next door and though i know it is wishful thinking, i am sure some of them like it there better!). and, if all else fails, i put up some copper, stick in some annuals around the skeletal remains of the hostas and make due with what i have. i know these solutions are far from perfect but they seem so much more humane that barbarically cutting them in half or burning them to death with salt (or even drowning them in beer though they say they die happy that way..).