My mother wages a constant war against them.
Apparently if you stick grapefruit skins upside down in with the plants, slugs can get stuck under them. And they won't go over copper, I can't remember why. I think they get a small electric shock.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:30, archived)

Mrs Shanbles is a frencher.
We just eat the fuckers.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:31, archived)

Really?
Can you eat any kind of snail?
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:32, archived)

i remember the first time i ate snails
they were in a soup. I looked at it and thought they were mushrooms in the soup, and when I went to eat it, I thought the mushrooms were really rubbery and chewy.
( turb0t, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:34, archived)

Mushrooms are fucking liver fluke in disguise.
BLEH.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:35, archived)

Just looked it up
*retches*
( turb0t, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:51, archived)

We dissected them in first year of secondary school, I never ate mushrooms again.

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:52, archived)

Pretty much.
If you feed regular garden snails for a week or so on a diet of clean greens and water, you can toss them into a pan with some oil, onions, white wine and garlic and eat them.
( Lord Gnome, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:36, archived)

i thought that the slime trail of a snail was poisonous
or is that the slime trail of a slug that is poisonous.
I once watched a snail crawl up the side of my greenhouse, it was fascinating watching what was going on under its foot through the glass.
( turb0t, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:39, archived)

Slugs apparently taste manky
which is why they can get away with not having a shell. I don't know if they're poisonous though.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:41, archived)

i can understand the shell of a snail being its defense
but the birds eat slugs as well don't they ? Don't they ?
( turb0t, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:43, archived)

hedgehogs eat them.

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:45, archived)

They'll eat KFC.
I wouldn't trust a hedgehog as far as I could spit one.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:48, archived)

Dunno. I've only collected one sort.
And I've only done it in france. I've never been able to collect enough in England.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:40, archived)

I heard if you smash one up with a hammer all the little bits regrow as snails

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:43, archived)

oh yeah, I've heard the copper thing. Weird.
Mind you it's weird enough what salt does to them.

Spacefish made a slug pub, that got quite a few on the first night.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:32, archived)

Cool.
Do you just stick beer in a saucer or something?
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:33, archived)

yeah, pretty much.
or a round baking tray, which is what we used. I think it needs to be deep enough for them to drown in.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:34, archived)

Yeah, it does.
They're just one big mucous membrane, they're cool.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:35, archived)

I used to sink yoghurt pots into the soil and fill them with beer.
It really works.
Incidentally, I heard that one of the dictionaries was demoting yoghurt spelt properly in favour of yogurt.
( Druid, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:36, archived)

what happens to the extra H?

( glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:46, archived)

Dole.

( Druid, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:47, archived)

they need them for "shibboleth"

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:48, archived)

It's probably toxic to them.
If it was something to do with electricity, aluminium or iron would have the same effect.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:35, archived)

No, it's not toxicity.

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:36, archived)

There you go:
www.groworganic.com/item_PBR650_SnailBarr_Copper_Barrier_3_x_20_.html?welcome=T&theses=4979255

Can't be arsed looking more.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:37, archived)

no no no
it's because it stops them reaching 88 miles per hour
( spacefish bong!, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 19:16, archived)

I'm going to see if I can get some of that copper tape,
it looks useful for all sorts of things.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:38, archived)

It's hard to get here, but most garden centres in the UK seem to have them.

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:39, archived)

You'd probably just make bombs with it.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:41, archived)

:(((
Terrible bullying.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:44, archived)

Acting as a Leclanche cell?

( Lord Gnome, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:37, archived)

Whats good for stopping cats from digging the earth and shitting between my plants.
I had some of that "get orf my land" green jelly stuff, and that works fine, so long as it never rains, I've also been told to use the skin of an orange.
I've tried both of these but neither of them work, and i'm fed up with teh cats digging up around the roots of my plants and shitting there.
( turb0t, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:41, archived)

Kill them and then kill their owners and then kill EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE WHOLE WORLD.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:47, archived)

Barbed wire.
Or land mines.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:51, archived)

Get a cat of your own.
They'll protect their territory from other moggies, but they'll not shit in it.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:54, archived)

Haha, yeah right.
Tell our cats that.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:55, archived)

Although, they don't shit in the flower or veggie beds.

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:55, archived)

Exactly.
Wolsey shits in next door's lily plants or on Badger's mum's next-door neighbour's lawn.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:58, archived)

Haha, bad Wolsey.

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:59, archived)

Mrs T hates cat, as does Old Father T
So getting a cat would not really be an option if I'm to stay in favour with the family.
I wouldn't mind getting a *big* cat though if I was gonna get one, as that would help keep the foxes away as well.
( turb0t, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:56, archived)

Get a Lynx.

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:57, archived)

OR AN EAGLE.

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:57, archived)

Or a fuck-off huge supersoaker.

( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Tue 16 Jun 2009, 18:59, archived)

Oooh, yes.
If you had a remoted controlled sprinkler system, you could teach them not to do it. You'd need to spend a day or so spraying them everytime they went near it.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 19:01, archived)

I've seen a thing on the interweb, it was about £50,
that you attach to your hose, and leave in the middle of the garden, and it has a movement sensor and sprays water in the direction of where ever it detects movement.
My garden would become a swamp.
( turb0t, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 19:02, archived)

They'd learn soon enough, though.

( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 19:05, archived)

YES
I gotta get one of these LYNX
( turb0t, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 19:07, archived)