I don't pay much attention to slugs in compost, because they just don't have a chance to appear in my hot compost, which is worked daily - the ones that show up in the worm bin I ignore as they are actually just another part of the decomposer community, and when I harvest the worm bin I bury that gold - in the garden, OTOH, I stab'em or smash'em or fling'em into the back lane!!

don't chuck it out for sure! if you're concerned about eggs that may hatch in the garden, there really isn't too much problem, especially if you dig the compost in rather than just top dressing w/ it

if you're making tea you will be eliminating the slugs, but I'm not big on tea, so would advise using the tea on the soil rather than on the plants, and then use the soggy compost too

Bill

believe me. my compost was cooking. I can not figure out why the slugs are there other than this is just the year of the slug. I use the tea as a soil drench. I dont like spraying my plants leaves with some thing that could mold.
Thanks for the advice, The slugs are the ones that get to about 4 inches long.

In what way would you be "making things worse" by making compost tea with slug infested compost?

Slugs eat stuff and leave slime, poop, and dead bodies behind. That's the whole idea with compost. You may also see cockroaches, worms, mosquitoes, and ants. In addition there are 25,000-50,000 different species of microbes that you don't see. They are all there to decompose your stuff.

I have always had slugs in my compost. I deal with them in two ways bassketcher.

1. I use them for bait. The bluegill love 'em and its cheaper than buying wax worms.

2. I feed them to my rat terriers. THey love 'em too and compete, ..nah,... FIGHT over which one gets to eat the slug.

My Snauzers (sp) like bait too, but it is canned corn not slugs. I'll have to check that out. My garden has so many worms this year we borrow a few for fishing. But seriously the slugs are bad this year.

I had slugs in my compost.I think they are good for the compost itself since they break down the pile but I didn't want to bring them into the vegetable beds themselves.I decided eventually to take off the cover from a part of the heap and then wait for the slugs to go somewhere else in their own time (hours or overnight).To do this the compost should be fairly well broken down so that the slugs can't just dig deeper down into the gaps between the compost.
I am not sure about any eggs.I wouldn't want them of course but I didn't see any......
I also have a 2nd system for making compost.I get a sharp spade,get down on my knees and scrape the weeds between the different patches taking off as little as possible of the earth as I can ,just using the weight of the spade to skim off about a quarter of an inch of soil or even less.The spade has to be sharpened frequently with a file or a hacksaw.I cart it all away and leave in a large heap for as long as it takes -6 months to a year.
Then I reuse it all as replacement soil which is very composty.It is supposed to turn into a loam.The disadvantage is that it is very seedy and not particularly rich but I like it.It is great for potatoes.There are lots of wireworms,eelworms,millipedes etc which is a drwaback although I think that,with time (months or years!) these too would probably leave of their own accord (as their habitat broke down) but I haven't had the patience to find out and so probably reinfect the garden unnecessarily with these creatures which I suspect are eating the roots of the young seedlings......

What you need is a garter snake! This is, indeed, the year of the slug. I finially figured out that the reason that one of our hoophouses has no slugs and the other one (15 feet away) has hundreds is that the first has a resident garter snake. Poor thing, I stepped on its tail twice in one day before I learned to look for it. Now it hides when it sees me.

Katey