Re: Quiet (maybe??)

We get big ones here, too. Up to 4 inches long. Huge. Every morning when we do the dog poop patrol, we plop the slugs in the same bag and put it in the garbage. Incidentally, I think the banana slug--which is 4-5 inches long and yellowish--is the mascot of UC Santa Cruz. 

On Jul 25, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Kitty wrote:
I have slugs everywhere, this year they were even in the lawn. That would be too much salt. But it sounds like fun - I can just hear them, "Help me, I'm melting, I'm mellllllting!" They deserve it. 
I'll give it a shot.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
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Subject: Re: [CHAT] Quiet (maybe??)



I go out early on damp mornings with a salt shaker.  They
congregate around the containers in the breezeway so I
just knock them off into the gravel pathway and salt them
down.  They just melt.  Pretty revolting, but effective.  The
salt helps keep weeds down in the walkway, too - though I
doubt I use enough salt to make a difference.  It just takes
a sprinkle.

In a message dated 7/25/2008 6:25:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
gardenqueen@gmail.com writes:
LOL - we only get them during periods when we are getting rain - so most of the time they are no problem. When we do, I pick them up w/ a trowel and fling them into the lot next door where the birdies eagerly gobble them up. 
Good birdies.  Vile looking creatures I'll admit.  Ugh.

On 7/25/08, Kitty <kmrsy@comcast.net> wrote:
We got big ones here. 2 inches, I'd guess, sometimes longer. I don't have time to completely obliterate them, so I wondered if they could survive the way worms do when part of them gets removed. When possible, I will throw them onto the sidewalk for a waiting bird or, failing that, toss them in the trash if it's close by, but if those avenues are unavailable, I'll squish. Or sometimes, if I'm just really mad at them, I will go for obliteration, 
no half measures.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "james singer" <islandjim1@comcast.net > 
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Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Quiet (maybe??)


How do you "half squish" a slug?


On Jul 24, 2008, at 8:02 PM, Kitty wrote:

if you half squish a slug, does it die or can it rejuvenate itself

somehow?
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