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Do you have a secret tip to get rid of slug snot?

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  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    Thank you all for your tips. I will add a slug slime snot towel in the shed. 
    By the way, slug snot is called in German Schneckenschnodder. 

    I ♥ my garden.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You Germans seem to have a word for everything😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Simone_in_WiltshireSimone_in_Wiltshire Posts: 1,073
    edited May 2023
    B3 said:
    You Germans seem to have a word for everything😉

    And to make it worse, the towel in my shed could be called Schneckenschnodderentfernungstuch which is a slug snot removal towel. 

    I ♥ my garden.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    And I thought English spelling was hard. Your subtitles must take up a lot of space.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    bédé said:
    Note for those who throw snails into next door, or who have young children:  
    Snails have good homing instincts.

    Note for those tempted to put on their skin or to eat them:
    Commercial snails are specially reared on bran to clean up the Salmonella they normally carry.

    I'm not sure about slugs on either count.
    Not sure that you would actually throw young children over the fence but it has been known for years that snails will make their way back "home" - what doesn't seem to have been precisely proven is the exact distance or what barriers make a difference to the time taken.
    It is actually possible to decomtaminate snails yourself - given the right snails of course.  Takes about 6 weeks to be safely edible.  I've never actually tried it myself but when I lived in France, the nuns at the local convent did that on a regular basis.  They did give me some and suggested frying them in butter and garlic - I let the snails go in the forest and stuck to the wild mushrooms  :D  
  • SalixGoldSalixGold Posts: 450
    I second paper. Water or soap is rarely any good. Wipe off with a tissue.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    WAMS said:
    I use gloves or large leaves to pick them up. Some things just give you the squick.
    So do I, but sometimes you pick one up or brush against it without trying.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    When my children were little I worked as a "dinner nanny" at the local village school in Northumberland.  If you present a 4-year-old with a slug without disgust on your part, the child - in my experience - is fascinated to see how its eyes can retract, how it breathes, and how it uses slime to help it move...  they may have gone home with slug slime on their school clothes though...   :|
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I love the way German strings loads of words together like that @Simone_in_Wiltshire . Schneckenschnodderentfernungstuch might just be my new favourite. When I (attempted to) learn German at school my favourite was Straßenbahnhaltestelle.

    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I avoid touching them, but wouldn't a gritty paste of salt and water work?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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