Under Siege in my house.

[Len the dog]

The trouble with enlisting a team of badgers is that you'll end up overrun with pikeys.

 

[Smellydog]

Just spray somme diesel about, that'll shift them.

 

[Drum123]

Just spray somme diesel about, that'll shift them.

Now that would definitely attract pikeys.

 

[enfieldspares]

The trouble with enlisting a team of badgers is that you'll end up overrun with pikeys.

Or MPs looking out for them...

 

[potshotpat]

Just spray somme diesel about, that'll shift them.

Any idea how many you get to the gallon please ?

 

[enfieldspares]

Any idea how many you get to the gallon please ?

You'll need the refiner's MPG information from their product specification. Molluscs Per Gallon.

 

[downwind]

Hedge hog , they'll wipe them out.

Unfortunately, the Hedge hogs that inhabit our garden are stuffed so full of "Hog Food" (that my missus supplies) that they can't be bothered with the prolific numbers of slugs that slime their way all over our walls and paths!!

 

[TringSaint]

Get some free range garden chickens.

That or a friendly badger or a few large bags of salt!!

 

[paul o']

Wife collects hers up by the bucket full and puts them in the grass collection bin and sends them on holiday ! to date not one bastard has sent her a card thanking her

 

[paul o']

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[Len the dog]

Waste beer on slugs??? Are you mad man?

 

[paul o']

As i dislike beer feel its a good thing , now if they had a liking for a nice malt I'd be out there with a shovel or two of salt and let the buggers fizzz away lol.

 

[John Gryphon]

Two strips of copper ribbon are said to work

Is that like boiling witches in molten lead?

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OK, these are designed for shooting flies and the like, but a dose of salt would surely work on slugs. Great fun I would imagine, shooting all your slugs.

The most useless POS toy invented I have read of,barely good for more than 12"`s.

Bricklayers lime is a barrier they wont cross. Also put a inch ring around your tomato plants circa 10" in dia...no snails or slugs will ever cross it.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Be careful - I seem to recall that slugs are toxic to dogs. Mix up a solution of water and salt (road type) in a watering can then massacre the slimy scum!

 

[Len the dog]

Be careful - I seem to recall that slugs are toxic to dogs. Mix up a solution of water and salt (road type) in a watering can then massacre the slimy scum!

They can carry lungworm, there was a young lad in Oz that died from swallowing a slug for a bet.

 

[shakey jake]

why not just use slug pellets? a few along the frnch drain. also check for any crevice they could hide in and seal up

 

[AGR]

Get some free range garden chickens.

Ducks!

 

[paul o']

Astro turf and plastic flowers problem sorted looks good all year just power wash the buggers away ?

 

[Merlyn]

I thank you for all the suggestions. Lots of salt spread along the base of the walls of the house and on the patio this evening. Now we shall see what we shall see. Loads of the buggers up the walls tonight but they have to come down sometime.

 

[Merlyn]

Astro turf and plastic flowers problem sorted looks good all year just power wash the buggers away ?

If it were only that easy.