Slugs

Urgh! I can't bear slugs; can't even look at them. As for wrapping them up in kitchen paper. .... not a chance! I used to have a wood burning stove and found that sprinkling the wood ash was an excellent deterent against slugs. I miss that stove!

Oh I can't stand slugs.
They look like mobile turds.

We have these slugs and the common grey ones on the compost heap. They make fast work of the food waste and then the worms take over so after a year or so kitchen waste has become a rich black soil.
If only they would stay on the heap and not eat seedlings but despite that we have had some good crops this year.

I trod on a massive slug. Barefoot. Never really got over the trauma!

The other day I found a slug stranded on my very dry path. I felt sorry for it and watered an exit route towards my plants!
It is not the first time I have done this, I must be dotty!

I’ve read recently that slugs have a very strong homing instinct. We used to have one appear in the kitchen regularly, and as DH used to sling it out of the front door it was possibly the same one coming back.

We had no more visitations after I put copper tape round the dishwasher the trail always led to. We found it that same night exploded into three gruesome blobs across the kitchen floor.