YEEUUKK

Definitely wusses, who didn't play in the garden during wet weather much as kids or you'd be less phased by a snail or slug. I grew up in clay soil Essex where they abounded.

However, these new types are huge and both slugs and snails this year have jaws like alligators, decimated my carefully grown runner bean plants once DH planted them outside . Currently saving, baking and crushing eggshells to create barriers and like the sound of the garlic water too, will research on internet.

Coffee grounds have been recommended, I reckon we could be eating coffee flavoured courgettes this year with the amount DH is putting down.

I was coming out of my daughters garden late one night and heard the most slurpy chomping sound from a corner , it was a hedgehog eating a slug ! Gosh , it sounded good ! Are they edible to humans - maybe good for LCHF ?

I can't bring myself to squash them on purpose, but I throw them by the bird table and feeders so hopefully a birdy will find it and eat it!

Yuk how horrible for you. I touched one by accident this week while weeding,but I was wearing rubber gloves. Still felt disgusting.

What are they for anyway ?

The worst experience I had was when I was a young newlywed. I was hanging washing on the line. I stepped back and there was a crunch. I had stepped on a baby bird. To this day I'm sickened by what I did.

IMO the only good snail is a snail stuffed with garlic butter

I used to hate and scared of earth worms. Now that I know how good they are for the garden, I don't mind them anymore. In fact I am thrilled that there are hundreds of them in my compost bin! Maybe watching (with GD the never ending programs of Pippa Pig and George helping Granpa Pig in the garden) helped my terror of earthworms! Blush

Our pet slugs hold overnight parties in our kitchen when they practise for the Olympics, racing, climbing up washing machine/cupboards etc. They love to play hide and seek - we see them, go to get the dustpan and by the time we turn round, they are rushing to hide under washing machine. When firmly advised that they are not welcome and put outside, they tear round the house and by the time we get up are back laughing at us! Nasty MIL has snails, which she picks up and throws over the hedge into the road, hoping they'll get run over. Usually go bare-footed and do not like stepping on creatures, cos they feel really nasty underfoot!

Reminds me of the time my DD2 ate (half) a slug, aged about one. We were all having a nice morning in the garden and I'd turned my back for a few seconds. I can see her now, little frilly sun hat on, half a horrible slug in her chubby little fist....

No wonder she's a vegetarian now.

I have very recently discovered a new way to kill slugs.

Whenever I see them they are usually destroyed instantly (preferred and most satisfying method is chopping in half with garden spade) but when gardening with my toddler GS, I don't want him to see me killing anything, so we have a slug jar (with lid). We use this to scoop up all the slugs we find and I tell him I'll be taking them somewhere safe that's far away from our flowers/plants.

Earlier this week we were using our normal jar system but then I forgot to dispose of the slug contents in the usual way and the jar was left out in the garden exposed to sunlight etc. Once I got round to noticing the said jar, there were lots of dead slugs in it. Wonderful!. They seemed to have drowned gruesomely in each others slime.

Let's get real... LOL. I often pull a fresh lettuce in the morning from my vegetable patch and there's nearly always a slug nestled in the leaves. The lettuce is so tasty - no pesticides whatsoever.

First thing DH does when we get to France is to look in the pool filters, frogs, toads, mice and some very interesting huge insects make his day. If the local farmer is haymaking it is common to see lots of fieldmice swimming.

Lily beetles are quite easy to catch as they move very slowly, I had the grandchildren well trained to catch, and then stamp on the bright orange beetles. I though I was on top of the problem, but eventually the pre beetle larva chewed through the roots, so I had to destroy my lilies - luckily in a pot - and burnt the remains. So now no Lily Beetles, but sadly no Lilies either!

In France for a couple of weeks - in rented house with pool, first day the lady who does more or less everything was clearing out the pool filter and screamed when she saw large toad apparently dead lying at the bottom of the trap - it was plastic but v realistic! Some darling child obviously thought it would be amusing....

Goose, are you a bear then!?!

Christinefrance, why didn't you keep them ? They have found their way over to the East of England, I am over run by them.

Yup! It sure is wild out there. Best to stay indoors - wait a minute, are those ants crawling up my walls...and woodlice in the corner of the floor and I wish that fly would leave me alone but never mind, there's a spider...and oh no - what has the cat brought in....?

I've trodden on a few with bear feet - I know he feeling

My husband was picking strawberries at the allotment yesterday. A big frog jumped into his hand and he screamed like a girl!

I throw slugs next door into our unpleasant neighbour's garden .I feel better now I 've confessed .
Am finding the scatter crushed eggshells/spray with garlic water route quite effective in slug control so far this year.I have never known them go for verbena before .

Found a cluster of slugs when moving plant pots last weekend. Threw them in my wildlife pond for the frogs

I walk around the garden with bare feet and have several times stepped on slugs. They leave thick sticky slime which is hard to wash off. Disgusting but not scary.

Ugh, here in France we have large horrible orange slugs. At least they are easier to see ! !

brings back memories of Victor Meldrew

the back door. Not 'floor'