chucking them into my next door neighbours garden is my favoured method of slug disposal.
Favourite slug-killing methods
Jack can you bring it round next week please? If there's any left by then. I got about ten today because it rained last night 
I don't want anyone one this thread to talk about ways of dettering slugs with herbs or any of that hippy stuff. I'm going to very dissapointed if anyone suggests collecting them in a bucket and driving them to the countryside. The only bucket a slug should ever be put in is one full of hot soapy water.
You could come home drunk one night in the rain, realise your back garden was full of slugs and then go out with a trowel, fill two carrier bags full of them pour in salt and slug pellets and then tie up the bags.
You do feel like a crazy person though and your sister might hear you filling a third bag and yell at you.
Throwing only works for snails because they break, and then the birds eat them and birds make the garden look pretty.
newyawka wrote:
you sick fucks. what did sluggie ever do to you?
1)Be the most disgusting creatures to ever walk the planet (on one slimy foot!), thats what.
2)Come into my kitchen and stop me feeling safe in my own home
3) Terrify me
4) Be really really disgusting
5) Eat our plants
I hate them. I hate them even more than I hate other cultures.
It's weird that you people hate slugs or are disgusted by them. We used to eat these growing up in upstate New York. This one is my favorite way to eat them when I was a kid:
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Slug FrittersIngredients:
10 freshly slaughtered slugs cleaned of all outer mucous
1/2 cup of cornmeal
1/2 cup of high protein flour
3 eggs
2 egg yolks
1/4 cup of heavy cream
4 tbs. Of butter
4tsp.of sour creamInstructions
First chop the slugs into fine mince, then beat the eggs and egg yolks with the heavy cream together. Sift the dry ingredients and then cut 2 tbs of butter into that mixture. Add the egg and cream mixture to the dry ingredients and whip with a whisk vigorously for one to two minutes. Melt one tbs of butter in a sauté pan and pure the batter into 2 1/2 inch cakes in two batches. Serve warm with a dollop of sour cream.
Yields 4 servings.
That's an idea I like. We've tried:
1. slug pellets - shit. they kill the birds
2. hippy slug pellets - biological ones - don't work
3. salt - too time consuming, we've got battalions of them
4. throwing them into next door - same as 3
5. putting stuff on the soil they don't like - coca pellets and so on - same as 2
6. encouraging frogs - quite effective, but I'm crap at mainataining a pond and so we get loads of smelly water and dead tadpoles. Given up on that one.
7. so ..... 
Salt is yer only man I reckon. Its important not to throw it around too liberally though - its not good for the soil.
Fuck loads of coffee grounds can act as a barrier decently well but it defo doesn't kill enough of the fuckers.
I dunno this summer seems to be slug bonanza. Look at these bastards invade one of our cats' dishes.
John. wrote:
or do this to your garden:
This doesn't work either!
My parents paved their back yard in a bout 94, but every year since, slugs still come up to the back door because that's where the cat and dog bowls are, mental!
I used to do the salt thing when I was an evil wee teenager, now I just throw them in the bin, which seems to work, as there's less and less each time I visit them.
jack white wrote:
I dunno this summer seems to be slug bonanza. Look at these bastards invade one of our cats' dishes.
exact same thing happens at my parent's house, like I said I just lift the bowl/dish and bang it in the wheelie bin, there's been less of them every time.
Salt - traditional and satisfying, but messy. Puts me off using salt for anything else.
Drowning - Quick, easy and clean but you have to pick them up to put them in the bucket. Even with washing up gloves on this is horriffic. You can sometimes use a spade to scopp them up, depending on the positioning of the slug.
Cutting in half with spade/hoe etc. - Sometimes they make themselves all hard so you can't get it through. Otherwise: good.
Stamping - very messy. Not recommended.
Slug pellets - Messy, so don't put them too near the house. Very effective but removes the satisfaction of seeing them die.
Making a trap with beer - Didn't work when I did it.
A few more methods I haven't tried yet - hanging on the washing line, running over in car.