In my first garden (yard) I used to throw them over the wall down a good 20 foot drop to the car park below. Now it's a horrid salt water bucket. I hate myself for it.
I used to collect them up at first dark, put them in a container with holes and then walk a mile away and put them on a verge. Then I got chickens and haven't had a problem since. . Of course there were a couple of occasions I forgot to make the trip and they ended having a horrible death in full sun. Slug and snail soup.
I've never thrown/disposed of slugs or snails. Initially I was more into wildlife and kept them all for juicy snacks for the wildlife. I'd go as far as picking them off things that were going into the recycling/bin and put them back into the garden!
As time has gone on I've grown more and more plants and not had an issue. It's actually quite rare that I come across slugs/snails. However, this is the first year I have grown tender young annuals (soon ready to be transplanted out) and also some hostas so i'll wait and see what happens this year - I may be eating my words!!
Are there any links to the RHS study obelixx as it is at odds with the following advice from the RHS website:
Go out with a torch on mild evenings, especially when the weather is damp, and hand-pick slugs into a container. Take them to a field, hedgerow or patch of waste ground
It could be relative to the species (there are many slugs and snails in the UK) but all the research I've ever seen indicates slugs don't move far in their entire lifetime. I've personally never seen the same slug again after moving them no more than 40 feet away from my veg patch.
I never mind being wrong about something, life is about learning, so would find the RHS study interesting if it contradicts other studies that have been undertaken. Particularly would like to know the species they studied.
What I hate about how people use slug pellets is that they apply huge amounts and their beds are a blue mulch. One or two pellets per square meter is enough - they are a bait!
Still not perfect for safety but infinitely better than common practice!
Drop kicks? Nice one!I have booted them over next doors garden! Just like johnny Wilkinson in the 2003 rugby world cup final.what a match.slugs I throw them on top of the garage for the birds to eat.
I used slug pellets once, years ago and swore I never would again. Much as I despise these little plant-murdering psychopaths, I only ever feel bad if I kill them. So its fill an old ice cream tub full of them, drive out to open arable land set them free.
My neighbour's garden is deficient of gastropods, and in fact of any lifeforms, so of course I have donated some.It's all in the good cause of biodiversity.
I just let them be now and the caterpillars, I have more than enough food from the garden so some for them, some for me.
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In my first garden (yard) I used to throw them over the wall down a good 20 foot drop to the car park below. Now it's a horrid salt water bucket. I hate myself for it.
I used to collect them up at first dark, put them in a container with holes and then walk a mile away and put them on a verge.
Then I got chickens and haven't had a problem since. 
. Of course there were a couple of occasions I forgot to make the trip and they ended having a horrible death in full sun. Slug and snail soup.
I've never thrown/disposed of slugs or snails. Initially I was more into wildlife and kept them all for juicy snacks for the wildlife. I'd go as far as picking them off things that were going into the recycling/bin and put them back into the garden!
As time has gone on I've grown more and more plants and not had an issue. It's actually quite rare that I come across slugs/snails. However, this is the first year I have grown tender young annuals (soon ready to be transplanted out) and also some hostas so i'll wait and see what happens this year - I may be eating my words!!
Mine go over the wall into the churchyard - all gravel so I doubt they find their way back to me.
Are there any links to the RHS study obelixx as it is at odds with the following advice from the RHS website:
Go out with a torch on mild evenings, especially when the weather is damp, and hand-pick slugs into a container. Take them to a field, hedgerow or patch of waste ground
It could be relative to the species (there are many slugs and snails in the UK) but all the research I've ever seen indicates slugs don't move far in their entire lifetime. I've personally never seen the same slug again after moving them no more than 40 feet away from my veg patch.
I never mind being wrong about something, life is about learning, so would find the RHS study interesting if it contradicts other studies that have been undertaken. Particularly would like to know the species they studied.
I just stamp on them, or slice them through with a pair of secateurs if I have them on me.
What I hate about how people use slug pellets is that they apply huge amounts and their beds are a blue mulch. One or two pellets per square meter is enough - they are a bait!
Still not perfect for safety but infinitely better than common practice!
Drop kicks? Nice one!I have booted them over next doors garden! Just like johnny Wilkinson in the 2003 rugby world cup final.what a match.slugs I throw them on top of the garage for the birds to eat.
I used slug pellets once, years ago and swore I never would again. Much as I despise these little plant-murdering psychopaths, I only ever feel bad if I kill them. So its fill an old ice cream tub full of them, drive out to open arable land set them free.
My neighbour's garden is deficient of gastropods, and in fact of any lifeforms, so of course I have donated some.It's all in the good cause of biodiversity.
I just let them be now and the caterpillars, I have more than enough food from the garden so some for them, some for me.