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Sunday, September 05, 2004

Flying slugs are go...

slugWe've got a few slugs in our garden that come out and eat our vegetables, fruit and other good-looking foliage and, try as we may, every reasonable method of detering them has failed so far.

I know that slug pellets work but they're very nasty and not a nice way for the poor slug to go, so I had a brainwave last week and bought a 'black widow' style slingshot (catapault) on eBay.co.uk and used it to launch a few of our friends into orbit, aiming for a nice patch of green grass by the woods.

The slugs will either go on to (eat) pastures new or tell their friends about this great free ride and come back for more...

Blue Skies thinking @ 9/05/2004 08:26:00 AM  

9 Comments:

  • At Wed Sep 08, 10:01:00 AM, Blogger Vicious Summer said…

    Okay, that is seriously the funniest thing I've read all day. Perhaps you should also pick up some slug safety helmets on ebay, just in case your aim is off!

     

  • At Wed Sep 08, 11:16:00 AM, Blogger Brom said…

    Excellent sir! Someone once told me, however, that throwing snails over the wall is not good enough as they are as efficient, albeit much slower, than pigeons at finding their way back again, I wonder if it applies to slugs? (if it is actually true??)

     

  • At Wed Sep 08, 12:02:00 PM, Blogger Cincy Diva said…

    Truly hysterical! But seriously, my best friends sister is a gardener of 78 years and she stands by beer to get rid of slugs. If you open a can of beer and bury it to almost the top of the can in your garden, it will attract the slugs (notorious beer hogs apparantly) and they will fall in, get drunk, and die. What a way to go!

     

  • At Tue Jan 11, 12:23:00 PM, Blogger Cyberpudding said…

    I have tried the beer route and didn't get one.... sprinkling salt on the little critters is also very satisfying, watching them fizzle up before your eyes (especially when they have just muched their way through your newly planted seedlings!) Also, teaching them to fly could get you into your neighbour's bad books - they get fed up with splatted snails on the windows....

     

  • At Tue Jan 11, 05:57:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Vicious Summer: LOL - sluglids, good idea :D

    Brom-man: We'll have to tag the slugs, give them individual numbers and experiment with this theory :)

    Rikki Lee: LOL - It would have to be cheap beer, but then again maybe honour their memories with a decent pint of beer just to "see 'em off" ;)

    Cyberpudding: Haha - Did that salt thing once, slug looked like snot on my mate's doorstep :D I didn't think about aiming for winddows... nice idea, thanks :D

     

  • At Fri Sep 09, 07:35:00 PM, Anonymous Blog Party said…

    Hmmm do what the French do, they put a bucket of beer out and the slugs go in, get drunk and drown (no lie).

    Then they fry them and sell them as a delicatesse :)

     

  • At Fri Sep 09, 07:42:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Blog Party: LOL, hey welcome dude :) It's OK, French beer aint as nice as Brit beer, so that aint *too* much of a waste ;)

    As for eating 'em after... uuurgh, gross!

     

  • At Fri Sep 09, 08:15:00 PM, Blogger Sarah said…

    Couldn't care what they do in my garden but the cat and I get mad when they climb up the laundry door, push open the cat flap and come in and raid her dried cat food. She has a special yowl for when "there's something disgusting and alive in my bowl". Salt on the door step works but it feels odd constantly putting salt out!

     

  • At Sat Sep 10, 09:41:00 PM, Blogger Lever said…

    Sarah: OMG - your slugs come in the house? LMAO Get yourself a catapault, girl, and have fun launching them into the wide blue yonder... LOL

     

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