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Open compost bag full of slug or snail eggs

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
in Problem solving
What shall I do with it? I daren't use it for containers.
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    Can you scoop out the bits with eggs in (they generally cluster together) and leave them out on the lawn for the birds to eat?
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited November 2021
    I tried that but ended up spreading them about.
    I also tried a saucer of slug pellets sitting in the bag but they went mouldy.
    It's awful wet in there!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Seal it tight. Label it. Shove it in a corner and leave it for a year.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'd probably be afraid to open it.
    Do you think the hatched would be a able to eat the compost or would they starve?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JessicaSJessicaS Posts: 870
    Slug Nematodes? Pour a load in?
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Too cold for nematodes now, and I would say, not a reliable method. I would just bundle up the bag and put it away. Alternatively leave the whole lot submerged in a bucket of water over the winter.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Nematodes seems a bit of an expensive way to rescue half a bag of compost🤔
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • PianoplayerPianoplayer Posts: 624
    Urgh! Put it in the household waste bin (ie not the green waste bin). I'd want it as far away as possible...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Or give it to someone who keeps chickens.  They'd love it.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I'd just use it. If you have slugs and snails, you'll have eggs anyway. Regularly. 
    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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