Slugs

freebee420 · 07-29-2009, 06:10 PM

I have a real bad slug problem this year as its been really wet. Any one know a good way to get rid of them..?? THanks!

zerodown · 07-29-2009, 06:56 PM

Well if you don't have feelings for them or are a PETA member, I heard you can just use salt on them.

also: http://www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of-slugs.htm

Mydriasis · 07-29-2009, 06:57 PM

Not sure how bad it is but leaving a little beer in an opened beer can is what my grandma taught me. Slugs come in, party hard, then die.

**SageTree** · 07-29-2009, 07:37 PM

Are they on the plants or just in the soil?

freebee420 · 07-30-2009, 09:36 AM

Got plants in buckets. I`ve been useing beer in traps, slug baits ,salt ect ect all around the buckets. it does kill some but about 25% still get up and into the buckets and eat lots of the bigleaf which is slowly killing them.!! They wasnt to bad at first but the last 2 weeks its really been rainy most every day and the slugs are coming out of nowhere`s..lol Any ideas.??

Willie D · 07-30-2009, 04:03 PM

regarded · 07-30-2009, 06:26 PM

fuck'em with salt

**Pharm Girl** · 07-31-2009, 03:45 AM

There's a product called 'Slug 'Em'.........it comes in powder form.

With all the rain we've had, trust me when I say, I know what yer talking about.

They're everywheres~

Mikey · 07-31-2009, 07:06 AM

but they're just little guys!

**Pharm Girl** · 07-31-2009, 07:12 AM

little destructors at that!

Slug Em

ted · 07-31-2009, 11:02 AM

All these ideas are wrong - though I do like the shotgun idea conceptually - because you are only making the problem worse by killing the slugs you have. But the answer I'm going to give you - and this IS the answer to slugs - is not something you will believe, and it sounds really really crazy. But it works, and it's the only thing that works. Take it from a Northwest gardener.
The mistake is to think you accomplish anything by killing the slugs. Slugs, believe it or not, are territorial. If slugs are invading your crop from the areas around it, and you kill them, their territory is taken up by slugs just beyond it. You have to go on and on killing the new residents; it will be as if you are 'wicking' all the slugs in to your garden. The answer -
Here's where it gets hard, so hang on -
is to train the slugs you've got.

Stop laughing. It works. Go to your crop with a jar, unless you are not squeamish about handling the slimey buggers. Put them, one at a time, in the jar or cup them in your hands. Now scream at them. Swear at them. Call them every name you can think of. I know, I know. Weird, but true. Shake them, scream at them, but don't kill them.
Then put them somewhere close by that you don't mind them being, close enough that they can find their home territory. They won't come back to the place from which they were 'abducted by aliens!'

Believe me, I know how insane this sounds. I also know that your neighbors will give you long, suspicious looks, and will avoid you at the grocery store, but there you are, life is hard. I also know this works. The local slugs love strawberries, but in my garden, I only have to abuse the slugs for maybe a week early in the year, and a few times through the harvest season, and they can munch on things *right next to* the berries but will leave the berries absolutely alone.

And, yes, I am crazy, but that's beside the point. This works, and it's the only thing that works. The nearby territories are maintained by the slugs you've trained, and except for one or two newcomers, you won't have to worry about slugs any more. (For ranchers: this is the answer to cougars and wolves, too, but you need a really big jar, and don't be close when you let them go again, cuz they come out really pissed.) For slugs, it's dead easy. Give it a try!

bigbluedog360 · 07-31-2009, 01:48 PM

where can i get seeds of the shit you're smoking?

notepad · 07-31-2009, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by ted

All these ideas are wrong - though I do like the shotgun idea conceptually - because you are only making the problem worse by killing the slugs you have. But the answer I'm going to give you - and this IS the answer to slugs - is not something you will believe, and it sounds really really crazy. But it works, and it's the only thing that works. Take it from a Northwest gardener.
The mistake is to think you accomplish anything by killing the slugs. Slugs, believe it or not, are territorial. If slugs are invading your crop from the areas around it, and you kill them, their territory is taken up by slugs just beyond it. You have to go on and on killing the new residents; it will be as if you are 'wicking' all the slugs in to your garden. The answer -
Here's where it gets hard, so hang on -
is to train the slugs you've got.

Stop laughing. It works. Go to your crop with a jar, unless you are not squeamish about handling the slimey buggers. Put them, one at a time, in the jar or cup them in your hands. Now scream at them. Swear at them. Call them every name you can think of. I know, I know. Weird, but true. Shake them, scream at them, but don't kill them.
Then put them somewhere close by that you don't mind them being, close enough that they can find their home territory. They won't come back to the place from which they were 'abducted by aliens!'

Believe me, I know how insane this sounds. I also know that your neighbors will give you long, suspicious looks, and will avoid you at the grocery store, but there you are, life is hard. I also know this works. The local slugs love strawberries, but in my garden, I only have to abuse the slugs for maybe a week early in the year, and a few times through the harvest season, and they can munch on things *right next to* the berries but will leave the berries absolutely alone.

And, yes, I am crazy, but that's beside the point. This works, and it's the only thing that works. The nearby territories are maintained by the slugs you've trained, and except for one or two newcomers, you won't have to worry about slugs any more. (For ranchers: this is the answer to cougars and wolves, too, but you need a really big jar, and don't be close when you let them go again, cuz they come out really pissed.) For slugs, it's dead easy. Give it a try!

LOL @ this

ted · 07-31-2009, 02:18 PM

Oh, you laugh. But I tell you this works. I have gardened in the soggy Willamette Valley for years, and once I tried this I hadn't slug problems at all. No slugs in my garden. Unicorns, elves, gnomes, purple rabbits, and talking frogs, yes. Slugs, no. I really hate the talking frogs. They sit behind the orange rhino and snicker. They think I can't hear them, but I do. Little snickering bastards. I can hear them now, snickering . . .

freebee420 · 08-01-2009, 05:38 AM

Originally Posted by Pharm Girl

There's a product called 'Slug 'Em'.........it comes in powder form.

With all the rain we've had, trust me when I say, I know what yer talking about.

They're everywheres~

Ya i`ve tried slug`em and a few other brands that work but doesnt kill them all... How do u set out your bait..??.. I`ve been covering the stuff to get it out of all the rain otherwise it will be gone in 2 days of rain..lol.. At 10$ a box its hard to just keep dumping it out for them every 2-3 days unless u had lots and lots of cash..lol..

Ted...That`s some crazy way to fix slugs but at this point what the hell!!... I`ll let u know if they are as scared of me as they are of u..lol..!!.. Thanks..!!

Zerø · 08-01-2009, 09:20 AM

If you kill just one, then put it's head on a toothpick somewhere where the others can see, you will strike fear into them and they will leave of their own accord.

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