Slugathon

[primsong]

I get to go out and be the Slug-Bait Fairy again today, tossing it about like sparkle-dust that magically eliminates slimy little daffodil-and-tulip-leaf-eaters.

How do you deal with slugs and snails where you are?

I used to try the 'toss them in the street to be run over' version when I was in CA, but I had a *lot* smaller yard and a main road nearby to crunch them before they could make it back to the sidewalk. I've considered those little slug-barns you fill with beer to drown them in, but the idea of having to dispose of little gloopy containers of beer-marinated dead slugs is enough to put me off my feed for quite a while. Bait makes me feel like an industrial criminal, waving chemicals over the earth, but hey...it works....

Back to slug-bait dust... *toss toss toss*

Comments

[tuilelindowen.livejournal.com]

The first time I used snail bait (after trying everything else and still losing everything I planted within 24 hrs.) I was shoveling snails for a week. Piles of them. I never knew we had so many. After that snails and slugs really creep me out. Do banana slugs hang around banana trees or are they called that only because of what they look like? Where we moved we have a couple banana trees in our front yard.

My primroses just got eaten by something. I don't think its snails. Something else.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Hi Tuile!

Banana slugs just *look* like bananas, their coloring is often like a bruised banana, mottled yellow, brown and a touch of green, and they can be as big as bananas too. I kind of like them, maybe because they can be pretty funky looking and are rare to find. It's the common grey garden-slug that I abhor - unfortunately, you have to apply bait/slug-dust every 2-3 weeks at first if you want to break the cycle, otherwise the next lot of eggs will hatch and you'll be back where you started. I've made a good dent in my yard's population by keeping after it, so now I only have to do it when I begin noticing damage to the leaves of my irises, etc.

When we were down in CA I never had a slug, but my yard was rife with snails. :-P Now I don't have snails, but I have slugs! Oh well...