pollipazzi's 365 project

[pollipazzi]

you couldn't squish a slug that size. it would be traumatising.

 

[pollipazzi]

 

[AntiqueB]

Will Thelma and Louise eat snails? My chickens do. I suspect they also eat smaller slugs, though I'm not sure I want to know about that for certain!

 

[RoyalChick]

you couldn't squish a slug that size. it would be traumatising.

As a child my mother tasked me with helping in the garden. Specifically slug destruction.
I may have PTSD from the experience.
The two most effective methods are not for the squeamish: scissors or salt.
I would be sent out after dark armed with the scissors and the salt cellar and was allowed to decide which to deploy.
A less traumatizing but also somewhat leas effective method of destruction are beer traps. They need refilling from time to time.
I am not sure modern parenting standards would approve of an 11 year old out on her own after dark with scissors, salt, and a can of Guinness!

 

[pollipazzi]

As a child my mother tasked me with helping in the garden. Specifically slug destruction.
I may have PTSD from the experience.
The two most effective methods are not for the squeamish: scissors or salt.
I would be sent out after dark armed with the scissors and the salt cellar and was allowed to decide which to deploy.
A less traumatizing but also somewhat leas effective method of destruction are beer traps. They need refilling from time to time.
I am not sure modern parenting standards would approve of an 11 year old out on her own after dark with scissors, salt, and a can of Guinness!

i'd say in ireland, it'd be perfectly acceptable!
i have cut smaller ones with scissors before and the beer traps don't really work for me. besides. what a waste of beer!
the thickness of this guy... you just have to turn around and pretend like you never saw him.
maybe loppers?

 

[tlcmurphy]

We used salt. I’ve tried the beer, but all I caught was my husband

 

[pollipazzi]

Will Thelma and Louise eat snails? My chickens do. I suspect they also eat smaller slugs, though I'm not sure I want to know about that for certain!

they FIGHT over snails! they eat the shell and all! they turn their noses up at slugs though

 

[RoyalChick]

We used salt. I’ve tried the beer, but all I caught was my husband

Yes. Salt is very effective and sort of ghoulishly fascinating to watch!

 

[RoyalChick]

they FIGHT over snails! they eat the shell and all! they turn their noses up at slugs though

I get monster slugs and the Princesses won’t even look at them!

 

[pollipazzi]

Yes. Salt is very effective and sort of ghoulishly fascinating to watch!

it seems torturous. get it over quick! lol!