Can't Be Doing With Slugs...

The warm weather is lovely of course and I've done my share of wallowing in the sunshine...When I was first diagnosed with osteoporosis, the nurse told me to spend at least twenty minutes out in the sun every day...so the last few days must have counted for all the days missed in the middle of winter...

The better weather comes with a price...flying creatures with big teeth who take lumps out of your body...something did yesterday on my leg and now it's red and swollen and weeping...I've slapped some TCP on it...love the smell of that stuff!

With milder evenings and nights the slugs come out in force...armies of them...huge black slithery ones and teeny weeny grey ones and those totally gross and stomach churning so called Spanish slugs, which are apparently resistant to poison and so foul that hedgehogs and birds refuse to have even a little bite...Spanish slugs are a sort of orangey colour and have a frill round the edges...

They lurk under flower-pots and squeeze between flower petals and loiter beneath cabbage leaves...can't walk about in the garden in the evening with flip flops on...the sheer horror of inadvertently standing on one...makes me squirm just writing about it...honestly, I'd have an attack of the vapours.

Don't mind beetles and worms and other garden creepy crawlies in the slightest...but not slugs.

[Jolyn]

Me neither Vashti...horrible things. I usually do slug patrol first thing in the morning when I've put the bedding plants in...ewww, they're gross aren't they. But take a look at these for some beauties x Click 'images for beautiful slugs'

google.co.uk/search?q=beaut...

[rubyred777 in reply to Jolyn]

Good morning Lyn

I was just reading posts I never saw from a month ago! Just looked at your beautiful slugs. Wow! amazing . Their actually beautiful!

RUBYXX 😊

[Jolyn in reply to rubyred777]

Amazing aren't they Ruby and to think they're slugs...lol. So beautiful. xxx

[redted]

Hubby goes on patrol,and puts them in a plant pot and takes them to the bottom of the road to a field,he does this a few times in the first weeks,and it reall does get rid of them,we get less and less each year,

[hufferpuffer]

I'm going to get my slugs very, very, drunk then sling them into the farmers field hehheh ( evil laugh! ) xxx

[johnwr]

Sprinkle just a little salt on the blighters.

youtube.com/watch?v=EhMq_NU...(Not working as expected?)

[bulpit]

Morning Vashti, Couldn't agree more,really hate slugs, always wonder what they were put on this earth for, surly not just for hedgehog food, I also love the smell of TCP, my husband always called me Miss TCP. Take care, regards, Bulpit

[rubyred777 in reply to bulpit]

Good morning Bulpit

I'm reading some old posts I never saw. Just wondered what

TCS is. Did you look at the slugs Lyn put link for? Wow are they nature's work of art or what?

Rubyxx 😊

[bulpit in reply to rubyred777]

Morning Miss Ruby, It's TCP, just clear liquid used as an antiseptic for bites,spots, cuts etc, It has a very powerful smell,and I always use it,and have done for years, Hope your week is going well, Best wishes, Bulpit

[Nikkers]

It makes you wonder why Noah didn't allow the slugs onto the ark.....along with mosquitos?? Lol