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pottering girl
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I wonder what percentage of people have or have at least considered throwing slugs and snails over the boundary into a neighbours garden. I will admit to thinking about it… I guess it is one of those garden etiquette things that one must never do (or admit to)
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my garden ones go over the fence into abandoned scrubland, so no harm done. It's actually quite fun to drop kick a snail and see how far you can get it to go
On the other thread started on this subject its neck and neck with over the fence, cut in half and put in the council green waste for them to shred them.
I pitch the slugs over the back fence onto the wild rhodies. Find your way back from in there. The snails go onto the top of the coal bunker for the blackies to eat.
RHS studies have shown that snails just come back. They marked their shells and then kept an eye out. The snails know where the juicy stuff is and come home. I expect slugs are the same but it's harder to measure as they have no shells to paint.
I use wildlife friendly slug pellets around susceptible plants, throw any offenders I find into the road to be squished by passing cars and leave others well alone depending on where they are in the garden. Some are valuable re-cyclers of garden waste but they're not welcome on my veggie babies, hostas, hemerocallis, daffs or clems.
Although I move the ones I find so the Blackies can eat them, I have the feeling from the number of shells I find that they'd manage just fine without me. Helps having a fairly open flower bed with few hidey places for them.
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I'm not sure there is such a thing as "wildlife friendly" slug pellets. See this: http://www.hostalibrary.org/firstlook/RRIronPhosphate.htm It's the chelating agent that causes a problem and without it they don't work. I guess the nematodes aren't too harmful to other wildlife although I haven't tried them yet. I collect and freeze and then dispose of. It seems like very bad karma but last year they would eat whole parsley plants overnight and ate all my chives. I thought they didn't like strong smelling things.
Collect them up put them in a bag and in the bin.