I cut slugs in half and step on snails. I don't like to see them writhing in salt. I do use pellets though. I suppose it's buying meat from the supermarket rather than the abbattoir. What the eye doesn't see .....
Pellets - I use the ferris ones which are apparently organic and less toxic to other wildlife. I have a pond in the garden with frogs, but they still don't do enough to control the slugs. I don't over use pellets and use them very sporadically, and the frogs do OK. I've never found a dead slug on the ground (or a dead frog for that matter), so what it says on the packaging about the slugs eating the bait and returning underground to die must ring true.
Organic slug pellets round susceptible treasures to protect them. Works fine for me in regular, small doses.
Any slug or snail I find where I don't want it (greenhouse, seedlings, veggies, hostas, hemerocallis etc) gets lobbed in the road for instant squishing by passing tractors and traffic. I leave others alone as some slugs are essential for breaking down waste plant material and feeding frogs, toads and hedgehogs..
I do not hold with cutting them up and find salting very cruel. Slug pubs are too messy. Throwing them over the fence is useless as studies have shown they just come straight back to where they'll find their favourite supper.
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I cut slugs in half and step on snails. I don't like to see them writhing in salt. I do use pellets though. I suppose it's buying meat from the supermarket rather than the abbattoir. What the eye doesn't see .....
What do you do with them, either way?
Fling live ones into next door's garden and incur their potential wrath?
Pop the two halves of the dead ones on the barbeque?
I leave the bits lying around.
They're gone by the next day.
They get put on the slab of sacrifice and stomped on from a great height!
Death to all as quickly as I come across them
bird food".........
I with the snipping of slugs and stamping on snails.
Verdun, sorry, I can't see the salt solution being either quick or painless.
Pellets - I use the ferris ones which are apparently organic and less toxic to other wildlife. I have a pond in the garden with frogs, but they still don't do enough to control the slugs. I don't over use pellets and use them very sporadically, and the frogs do OK. I've never found a dead slug on the ground (or a dead frog for that matter), so what it says on the packaging about the slugs eating the bait and returning underground to die must ring true.
Organic slug pellets round susceptible treasures to protect them. Works fine for me in regular, small doses.
Any slug or snail I find where I don't want it (greenhouse, seedlings, veggies, hostas, hemerocallis etc) gets lobbed in the road for instant squishing by passing tractors and traffic. I leave others alone as some slugs are essential for breaking down waste plant material and feeding frogs, toads and hedgehogs..
I do not hold with cutting them up and find salting very cruel. Slug pubs are too messy. Throwing them over the fence is useless as studies have shown they just come straight back to where they'll find their favourite supper.