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Big orange spanish slugs

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  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    I need to man up. Still chucking them in the garden waste bin to be shipped off every fortnight.
    East Lancs
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    They'll just breed in there @Biglad ... and escape back into the wild to carry on slugging ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    But not in my backyard, d-fab? ;) 

    In my naivety, I'm hoping that the council chops, heats and generally mushes the contents of the garden waste bins to form beautiful, rich compost.
    East Lancs
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Don't trust 'em @Biglad :o

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    The council or the slugs? Or both :D
    East Lancs
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Biglad said:
    The council or the slugs? Or both :D
    You got it in three @Biglad 😉 

    Ive been talking about slugs on the foodie forum … a friend commented 

    “I didn't know about Spanish slugs before. Where's Priti Patel when you need her?”

    🤣 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Have you noticed that they ooze brown rather than green when you snip them?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
     :D d-fab and :s@B3  
    East Lancs
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I'm not sure about the question of wherther birds will eat snipped, dried out slugs. I suspect they do as it's seems to be the slime that puts them off. I think I've seen sparrows eating remains of nightly-snipped slugs the following morning. Whichever way up, there's usually no bodies to be seen when I go out to water.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I feel left out of the big Trump style slug debate.  :/
    In theory we can get them here, but I've never seen one. Just the usual range of small to extra large beasts in shades of grey, fawn, brown and black. We do get lots of leopard slugs.  
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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