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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
This summer, every morning when I went to refill the bowl there was a slug in it. Not wanting to touch it, I would pick up the bowl and hurl the contents out .... in the direction of the nearest tree trunk ...  but the dang thing kept coming back ... until my aim improved ...  |
Copper mesh. We buy it from
Lee Valley. This stuff WORKS. Completely organic, it doesn't kill them or leave poison around. It just makes them go somewhere else. They will NOT try to cross the copper. I live in the land of black slugs and they used to kill all my veggies. But I put this stuff all around the raised beds and now no slugs in there at all.
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Originally Posted by issybird
I have a friend who's a marine biologist. Her kids found a slug one day and wanted to make a pet of it, and not one to stifle inquiring biologically-inclined minds, she assented. THAT dang thing lived in a terrarium and grew to be nine (no exaggeration) inches long before it mercifully expired. My friend swears she had no hand in its demise.
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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Thank you ... I now have a mental image that will haunt my dreams for life .... 
9 INCHES!
Making another pot of ginger rooibos to settle my roiling stomach!
Oh heck! I'm going for the single malt early! |
Nine inches, and about 2 inches around and BLACK. Of course, no matter how big they get here, they're still not as big as the ones in Santa Cruz. They even named the school sports teams the Banana Slugs! (I kid you not, they held a campus wide contest and that's what the students picked!)
Talisker.