mogga writes
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:30:01 +0100, Yellow
wrote:

mogga ] said:
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:42:35 +0100, Yellow
wrote:

After taking some advice, I have been popping today's collection of
slugs and snails, collected while weeding, into a bucket of salty water
to kill them.

But now what?

A silly question perhaps but what do people do with the resultant
carnage? Pour it down the drain?

You leave it to set and you've got slug jam.
Put it in the bin. Probably best sent to the tip.


I asked a gardening keen friend at work how he dealt with slug and snail
disposal and he told me his mum (when she was fit enough to garden) used
to fill an old fabric softener bottle with water and pop the critters in
that. When the bottle was full the lid was screwed on tight and it was
then put into the dustbin for the bin men to collect for landfill. :-)

And the most votes at my workplace, when I revealed I tended to go on
the hunt after dark, was to just throw them over the fence.....

As long as you never mix them up...

Years ago I used to hunt them at night. huge hungry monsters that
ended up in a big tin which congealed into a really solid mass in the
end.
Later I learned to have fun with them first and sat and watched them
race to a beery death.

I assume all you slug-hunters know that most of the damage is caused by
one or two species of smaller slug? Most of the slugs eat rotting
vegetation not live stuff, and one or two are purely carnivorous. In
particular, the huge black slugs don't eat live vegetation, neither do
the big yellow ones with grey-green markings.

--
Kay