Didn't the Romans Introduce SLUGS to the UK?
2006-08-30 11:37:53 · 4 answers · asked by geraldine 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
The beer works, but you have to have many little containers in the ground and maintianing this is tiresome.
The salt works, kills em dead. The problem is often the salt gets on the plants or in soil and this will kill the plants.
You can use hair clippings sprinkled around the stems of your plants; one needs to get really thick hair and cut it no longer than one quarter inch for it to be effective. The slug crawls over it which causes the hair to jab into them. Problem with this is hair breaks down and it needs to be done often.
The latest one I have been told, which is the best, is copper wire or clippings. Copper rusts and this is corrosive to slugs. The rusting or break down doesn't take as long as the hair, the monitoring is longer than the beer and the plants doen't suck up the copper for years compared to hours for salt.
The final one, which I wouldn't do for anything and maybe what the Romans did that's why the slugs are now in the UK. Harvest them, pan fried with garlic and butter... bleck! phtewy!
2006-08-30 11:56:43 · answer #1 · answered by Alysen C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think romans brought slugs over, they are present in a lot of places in the world where there is damp weather so england is a natural place for them to live I think.
Oh and I just read this on wikipedia....
'Care should be taken when consuming slugs. In certain cases humans have contracted parasite-induced meningitis from eating raw slugs'
You should be ok then with pan frying I suppose.
2006-08-30 19:02:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arrange small containers of beer where you see, another trick I heard about is sprinkling them with salt!
2006-08-30 18:42:08 · answer #3 · answered by Sandy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Caffeine is an excellent pesticide to kill them it seeps through their skin killing them and your plants wont be harmed.
2006-08-30 21:31:56 · answer #4 · answered by mielo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋