Your post made my flesh crawl!! Sounds like you got rid of the problem and quite a few slugs too.

Connie

Thanks Upnort!
I haven't had a decent nightmare in a while! I did stab a chunk of cat poo the other day with my finger when I was checking a pot for water content.I gagged for a couple of minutes and looked up to notice "Diablo" had witnessed the whole thing.He is way too smart for a barn cat! Good thing that he is a decent volester!

Denny

Sorry about that Connie, but yes, I believe I have pretty much taken care of my infestation.
Denny, everytime I go out in the yard to work on something my cat has to do his thing right in the area! Then I forget where he was and, yep- dig right into it with my bare hands! Gotta say tho, between that and smashing a hundred slugs, the slugs were worse.

Oh my, that makes my skin crawl. I had a similar situation with slugs. Last year, I made a new hosta bed in the backyard. I trenched it out and placed sand, peat and good soil. Planted 22 hostas and laid landacape cloth and mulch. This year the slugs were in heaven. I was told that laying the cloth and mulch were the 2 worst things I could have done. So I removed all the mulch and cloth, killed all the slugs I could find and laid sand. So far, so good. I love to garden but don't like creepy, crawly, slimly things!

msjo,
I hear ya! A few years ago I had a similar experience with laying newspaper down to kill grass. Yeah, it kills the grass alright- because theres so many bugs between the sheets of paper!!! Never again!

This is all quite gross aint it!!! ever step on a slug barefoot? you have to scrub the slime off of your foot with a scouring pad (about 5 times!!). Hate those things!! and finding their favorite place to hide (not sure how to spell Lair? Lare? like some type of catacomb that a vampire would live in) like you did, and tearing everything down, (that, probably took a lot of sweat?) had to feel like doing an exorcism (spelled something like that), They are the gardeners devil!!! I can almost picture them spewing green vahmit at you (and turning their heads 360 degrees around) as you try to erradicate them (and bless them with holy salt water)!! Hate those things (did i mention that?)

Was there a movie made about this? or was it just one of my own nightmares?

Paul

You want to hear something really gross?
My sister eats snails.
I guess that they have some fancy name for it, but it's still a snail, which to me is a slug that carries it's house on it's back.
Now how gross is that?!!!!

Hey Sassy!! I've had escargo (spelled something along that line), MANY years ago!! It was actually quite tasty if you could get around the gritty sand thing!! And there is a slug bait called something like escar go!! Whod a thunk!!

Paul

Funny stuff Paul! Glad to say I wasnt barefoot but I did scrub the bottom of my shoes off! Did you know that earwigs crunch when you squash them with your finger? (insert evil-gone-crazy laff here). Ill pass on the escargot, thanx.

Paul, Just curious...now that you've had dealings with slugs do you think that you could eat escargo now?
~SASSY~

I have dealt with slugs and eat escargot at every opportunity...
They firm up when cooked!

lindac,
Are the snails cleaned and de-gutted or do you eat them with eyes, guts, and all? EEEEW! You know that they probably still have a little "snail Poo" in them too! This is the same reason that I cannot eat shrimp!I always get a chuckle when I am at an upscale restaraunt and the "Fancy Folks" are suckin down "critter poo'! I always think of it as the critter having the last laugh!
HOSTA, hosta ,hosta, had to keep on the subject..

Denny

Darn it, Denny!
I loved fried shrimp until NOW! LOL

OK OK OK !!! no i dont eat escargo any more!! cant get past the sand thing! Kinda reminds me of when i was a kid and running down a sand dune and my brother running along side of me is loosing the race so he trips me!! and then i end up with a mouth full of sand!! takes about two days to spit it all out!! ( that was before i found out about beer!! ) and the shrimp? that is what they call DEVEINING!! it is not a vein they are cutting out!! it is the intestine! I have fresh water shrimp in my aqurium and can tell if they have been eating enough cause you can see how full the "VEIN" is!! quite gross!! but the shrimp you eat should be cleaned and deveined!! it usually is so you are not eating what the shrimp did and then processed. I really love to eat shrimp!! so good!!
Kinda gross to devein shrimp yourself but WELL worth the effort!!

Paul

Back to the initial post, if you had poured Amonia in your fountain a few times a year would that take care of the slugs?
Once upon a time newspaper was known to kill bugs, something in the ink, I still use it first in my vegi garden before mulching heavily with grass clippings. Never have to weed my vegi garden. When something touches the ground, you get bugs. decomposer's gotta do their thing.

PS: my husband hasn't' eaten shrimp since my mother gave him the job of deveining the shrimp for a holiday shrimp salad!

I was wanting to put pine straw around my new hosta bed, do you folks not recommend it?

LOL. Oh my gosh. I doubt if I'll ever beable to sit down and eat shrimp again without thinking of this thread. LOL

What is pine straw?

~SASSY~

The cardboard trap thing is fun. Soak corrugated cardboard and lay it down over an infested area. Either soak the soil or wait till after a good rain. Slugs move up from the soil into the ridges of the cardboard. Spray with 10% ammonia. Score!

Sassy, pine straw is long pine needles, sold in the South by the bale.

I couldve poured amonia except I had no idea they were there!!! Id pick up top bricks now and then to inspect and nothing was there (except for the !#$*ing earwigs) I never expected the slugs to be under 2 ft of dirt living the good life in the holes in the bricks. And for the fountain feature, that was just plain stupid on my part. Slug ignorant no more! As for pine straw, I have spruce trees not pine. The needles work until the ants carry them all away to cover their hills. If its not 1 bug, its 3!