How to...Deal with Slugs in the Garden

[Meta menardi]

Originally Posted by Jim Ford

IIRC recycled old wool, called 'shoddy', was considered a valuable fertiliser.

Jim

Also known as Mungo. Shoddy made with old rags, Mungo slightly higher quality.

[Gaina]

The pellets made from sheeps wool are available online now. Just search for 'wool slug pellets'.

[Susie]

I'm not going to get sentimental about reducing slug numbers at a time when plants are vulnerable to their attacks. There are various different slug pellets which are touted as being "organic". The ones I use seem to do less harm to wildlife than bog standard slug pellets because they slug feels rotten and crawls into a hole and dies underground ensuring that it isn't eaten quickly by anything else such as frogs, hedgehogs or thrushes. It seems to do the trick.

[Gaina]

Originally Posted by Susie

I'm not going to get sentimental about reducing slug numbers at a time when plants are vulnerable to their attacks. There are various different slug pellets which are touted as being "organic". The ones I use seem to do less harm to wildlife than bog standard slug pellets because they slug feels rotten and crawls into a hole and dies underground ensuring that it isn't eaten quickly by anything else such as frogs, hedgehogs or thrushes. It seems to do the trick.

Interesting . I wonder if the (excuse the graphic image) rotting slug leeches anything in to the soil from the pellets? Of course one or two slugs won't have much impact but I wonder a) how many slugs there are in an average garden and b) if that many pellet-killed slugs would have an impact on the soil or if other minerals in the earth would neutralise it.

Thanks for bearing with my nerdy tangent .

[Susie]

I don't know, it's an interesting though. I guess because I only use it briefly in the spring there isn't any mass build up but certainly there will be over time.

The thought of rotting slug corpses doesn't bother me, you should have seen the mess I had to fish out of the beer traps when I tried using them last year. Ewwww!

[grymalkyn]

Originally Posted by Meta menardi

Also known as Mungo. Shoddy made with old rags, Mungo slightly higher quality.

Yay, thank you, I'd forgot that term.

"Shoddy is wool obtained from woollen rags and wastes and respun."
similarly "mungo" :-)

[Jez]

Originally Posted by grymalkyn

Yay, thank you, I'd forgot that term.

"Shoddy is wool obtained from woollen rags and wastes and respun."
similarly "mungo" :-)

Recycling back then. Who'd have thought it?

[Kayleigh]

Re: How to...Deal with Slugs in the Garden

Take a pic and put it on the "slug of the day" thread