Spanish Slugs

[Potstubsdustbins]

If you think that's bad try standing behind a cow helping her to calf when said cow produces a big and I mean BIG sloppy pat and your that close she ......................fills you wellie. The farmer didn't stop laughing for a week and for years afterward he would remind me by hobbling across the yard shouting "squelch ........squelch".

[bussinspain]

I live in Spain so why haven't I seen any? Oh yes, I know why - they like cool and damp places. We are definitely NOT cool and damp here!

[vixylix]

They're all over here Buss, that's why!

[Lumpy]

Yucky Ducky Do Dah the rumours are true - the monsters DO eat doggie doo's. It was horrible.

The only good thing about them is that they slither around during the day so are easy to spot.

[boatsman]

The surface of my garden is covered with a mulch of small pieces of porous volcanic lava size 4mm to 8mm. This probably prevents slugs from moving over it. Occasionally I come across slugs under wet stones, but I don't have a problem with them eating plants.

[vixylix]

I found three of these this weekend - they were huuuuge, and disgusting!

[SusieG]

.....yes, unfortunately they seem to be on a mission to take over the world.......

[vixylix]

They look more like small UFOs than slugs... grim

[Lumpy]

6 tonight.....should I start slabbing the garden and buying from the supermarkets?

[SusieG]

...too dark, wet and tired to venture out to check after work this evening....

But I bet they're there ~ sliming their way all over the garden ......

[Cadalot]

I Love this

[Cadalot]

Then there are these chaps

[Lumpy]

Day glo slugs.......brilliant idea!

[boatsman]

Looking through an old copy of 'Organic Gardening and Farming' from April 1978 I came across an article about 'Bug juice method of insect control'. Basically the method consists of gathering samples of the insects that are attacking crops, grinding them in a blender with water, straining the mixture and spraying a diluted solution back on the crops. According to the article this was very successful. The article then reports about a woman in Portland, Oregon in the US. Apparently slugs were decimating her garden so she tried the bug juice method. She reports in the magazine. 'I collected several dozenlugs, put them through the blender with a little water, strained it and sprayed it back over the lettuce, beans, potatoes, etc., she says. 'The slugs disappeared! Not only that, they have never returned.