Oh those slimey little grey gooey things that chomp on your poor little baby plants in the dead of night. We as humans have little use for those and they hide like cat burgalers just waiting for darkness to pounce and ruin all your hard work.
Well I have an idea to get rid of them without actually being their final assassin. Slug policeman is what I want to be. Lure them into my trap, ( maniacal laughter) then use the "no knock" technique to surprise them, put them in handcuffs, jail them and sentence them to death row.
How am I planning to do it, you ask? Well, you know how they like to hide in dark, damp places? I'm going to try short pieces of my black garden edging, the kind you edge your borders with to hold the grass from growing in. Why that? Because one morning, after having unrolled and left out all night a long piece the day before, to get the curl out, I turned it over and it was full of slugs !! I had 30+ on one 20' roll.
Now I have many small pirces of this left over so, I figure if I lay that in my garden beds, up under the plant leaves, the slugs will hide there and after sunrise the no knock warrant comes into effect. I then lift the bits of edging, handcuff the culprits, jail them in a shallow box and put them in the shade under my Bamboo where all the birds sleep and play and then the birds can finish them off !!
eat them allllllll up
Only one problem. How to keep them from escaping? I don't think razor wire would work and hiring armed guards would be a bit expensive. Any ideas?
What do you do to keep those critters down?
Well I have an idea to get rid of them without actually being their final assassin. Slug policeman is what I want to be. Lure them into my trap, ( maniacal laughter) then use the "no knock" technique to surprise them, put them in handcuffs, jail them and sentence them to death row.
How am I planning to do it, you ask? Well, you know how they like to hide in dark, damp places? I'm going to try short pieces of my black garden edging, the kind you edge your borders with to hold the grass from growing in. Why that? Because one morning, after having unrolled and left out all night a long piece the day before, to get the curl out, I turned it over and it was full of slugs !! I had 30+ on one 20' roll.
Now I have many small pirces of this left over so, I figure if I lay that in my garden beds, up under the plant leaves, the slugs will hide there and after sunrise the no knock warrant comes into effect. I then lift the bits of edging, handcuff the culprits, jail them in a shallow box and put them in the shade under my Bamboo where all the birds sleep and play and then the birds can finish them off !!
eat them allllllll up
Only one problem. How to keep them from escaping? I don't think razor wire would work and hiring armed guards would be a bit expensive. Any ideas?
What do you do to keep those critters down?
