Poured cold coffee on a couple of slugs yesterday...gave them a bath of
the stuff. The very small slug spent a couple of hours at the edge of
the coffee pool...stopping there every time after I rolled it back into
the deep end...and the large one swam out easily. I didn't observe
their noshing activity afterwards...too disappointed that automatic drip
coffee didn't seem to faze them otherwise. :(
Barb in Southern Indiana Zone 5/6 dorsettb@kiva.net
Gardens are solar powered devices.
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Your slugs were lounging about in broad daylight? Mine are nocturnal, in
the daytime they hide under boards I have placed especially for them. I
dispatch them by scooping them up in glass jars and clamping on the lid
after turning the boards over to find their hiding spot. No death by coffee
at B1rdland!!
ann
Zone 4/5
----- Original Message -----
From: Dorsett
To:
Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 8:26 PM
Subject: Re: Garden Slugs
Any slugs found lounging around in broad daylight would be dessicated
hulks unless they were out during a sunny, rainy weather...you know -
the kind that won't last half an hour according to that old wives' tale.
I had to turn over four different rocks to find some...and I found just
two under that fourth rock. Same principle as your boards...entice
slugs into hiding where they're easy to find.
Barb in Southern Indiana Zone 5/6 dorsettb@kiva.net
Gardens are solar powered devices.
Gardens co-listowner gardens-request@lsv.uky.edu
Into each generation, a Slayer is born. One girl, in all the world, a
Chosen One. One born with the the strength and skill to hunt the slugs, to
stop the spread of chewed hostas.
*****Barb, the Slug Slayer*****
Now on PBS, a mid season replacement for the Victory Garden (whose plants
were skeletonized by slugs after the host, Michael Weishan, was slimed to
death.)
"A Slayer hunts slugs; Barb is the Slayer; don't tell anyone. I think
that's all the slug information you need.'
-George(a.k.a. the talker) from "The Harvest "
Don't worry Barb, your secret is safe with me unless I accidentally post
this to the whole list.
-jam
Yes, there are snail (with a shell) farms, a very good business I
understand. As a kid, I can remember my mother buying live snails,
feeding them cornmeal for a few days, and cooking them. I was never
tempted to eat them but liked to play with them before the boiling
water kill. Ewwwww!
You have some large slugs in Norway! Maybe they're not in your area?
They would have a holiday feast with all your hosta.
Linda in NW Ohio, still smiling about Barb's experiment.
There are two different snails that are commonly used for food: the Roman
snail or Helix pomatia (3 to 4 cm. in diameter) and the Brown snail, or H.=
aspersa M=FCller (usually less than 3 cm. in diameter). In 1879 a
well-intentioned man brought a quantity of the brown snails to California
and established colonies in 5 locations, to serve as future food for
humans. They practically cover the state now, and have spread into the
American southwest, and further east, wherever they can overwinter without=
freezing. They are the bane of California gardeners' existence. One can
smash them, and they can scrape themselves off and recover, rebuilding
their shell. One can still eat them, but the California Ag department
recommends "cleansing" them on lettuce for some time before preparing them=
since slug poisons are spread everywhere.
> This bring me back to this tread: someone that are 'francofile' ( =3D=
loving
Household ammonia kills them too. So does a shovel. Margaret L
Didn't need coffin, since the slug survived.
Ah...the guys call my compost heap 'the coffin' because of the
shape...and that's where my garden goes through 'resurrection
ceremonies'...turning the compost and letting it stew into garden gold.
I have plenty of slugs there, but they're a valid part of the
'ceremonial entourage' in that situation.
Barb the Slug Slayer Zone 5/6 dorsettb@kiva.net
Gardens are solar powered devices.
Gardens co-listowner gardens-request@lsv.uky.edu
> I think Barb's drink must have been without coffin!? :)>>
Arnhild, for someone who didn't understand all of jam's message, you
sure managed to get a good play on words in there! :)
john is using references to Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, when calling
Barb, the Slug Slayer.
I think when you wrote "coffin" you meant caffeine?
Jo...BtVS fan
NJ
As normal I understand half of what is said when you folks start with
exclusive joking .. but I smile .. I mean I can sense a hummering ..
- anyway: once we was in Kypros, there some local people poped up and
around here and there in a amazzing speed running around .. stopping and
asking: 'What are you doing?????' Guess what the answer was: 'hunting
snails' -- and this was NOT in the gardens bit aoround anywher. And guess
what they were for: eating! Thye were selling it to restaurants!
This bring me back to this tread: someone that are 'francofile' ( = loving
french things) must know how tthe best way to hunt slugs and snails are?
Snails are delicatesse in France at least as I know? Ain't there even so
that some use to 'farm snails'?
I use snails and slugs ... you seem to talk about slugs ( those without
house), but here by us both eat on garden plants. Our biggest slug is
black and about 10 cm fat thing :( - some are dark brown, one is called
tiger striped, and we think of these two last as BAD. People can some
places not grown their own vegetables becase these slugs eat ALL!
I think Barb's drink must have been without coffin!? :)
Arnhild
Brilliant minds make associations without conscious effort (which is why
you never see such "mistakes" from me.) So that goes to show you are
brilliant.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is based on the secret life of Barb the Slug
Slayer. Well, not really, but having a teenage daughter Buffy's age, I
discovered the show is quite enjoyable. It is thong in cheek, ops I meant
tongue in cheek (which means it makes fun of itself). Moreover, it deals
indirectly with the common problems of being a teenager. I had disdained
to watch it, considering it trash tv, but then one Friday evening, a rerun
was on and I could not find the remote control. To tired to turn the
channel, I watched and really loved the episode. Since then, it has been
my replacement for the long dead X-files.
-Jam(The Dateless One)
'Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a
Sister to the Dark Ones.'
-Willow
> You have some large slugs in Norway! Maybe they're not in your area?
> They would have a holiday feast with all your hosta.
I might take a photo one day and ask Barb to show them to you all :)
I pick them - but not for boiling them - what do I have a river for?
- not only for beauty and/or scary, but to feed the ducks and fishes with
things like slugs - the river gets my slugs and I hope thye follw her the
fjord!
Sometimes I cut them ... and .. =E6sjjjjj - you know what happens ! :( =
... but you see, I have learn somewhere that slugs are canibals and like to
eat a dying/dead relative .. and in fact I hav seen them doing do .. so I
try to use that as a 'trap' .. :( .. what a theme this is ..
-- did I spell coffin wrong? -- should been caffeine? ( that
'wake-us-up-stuff in coffee?) - sorry again ..
- there you see how it is to be me and not having enough time to
participate in a good way in this list .. so I think: the word must look
like this 'xxx'.. write it 'xxx' .. and then I have created a new word
'xxx' that you think rather should been xhtxythx' :)
- I do not want to make mistakes, but sitting with the dictionary all the
time is just not possible for me. Thank you to those of you being patient
and not blaming me - my english is the 'perfect norwegian english dialect'
:) - why not? Why don't you say coffin when you say coffee . . why is it
changed to an 'a' from 'o'. ( funny thing that in norwegian it is just the
other way - silly here too: it is 'kaffi' for coffee and 'koffein' for
caffein :) .. language! I use too much energy on this for nothing else
than getting misunderstood.
today's norwegian leasson is over :)
Arnhild
ps .. sorry :) -- I could not help LOL when I looked up the word coffin
now *after* writing all this -- well -- caffein should give the slug's
their coffin , so ... now I see the playing with words I made without
knowing !
I started watching TV after supper, substituting it for the computer
while I was trying to quit smoking.
(Sit at computer. Light up.)
Had to change habits.
Buffy made it easier not to think about smoking. Laughter is good
medicine. After the jumping and the screaming, that is.
Jo...four months smoke free!
NJ
Allium Ophioscorodon wrote:
Is this really Arnhild back ,
If so , Welcome back -- did miss your posts , think they are very
quaint .
I dont think I would go to all the trouble to look up words to try t=
o
please everybody -- give us a good {[ huff}- hup - toot or whatever , as
commander Perry or some other great person said -- damn the torpedos - fu=
ll
speed ahead .
mrmac
> You have some large slugs in Norway! Maybe they're not in your area?
> They would have a holiday feast with all your hosta.
I might take a photo one day and ask Barb to show them to you all :)
I pick them - but not for boiling them - what do I have a river for?
- not only for beauty and/or scary, but to feed the ducks and fishes with
things like slugs - the river gets my slugs and I hope thye follw her the
fjord!
Sometimes I cut them ... and .. =E6sjjjjj - you know what happens ! :(
... but you see, I have learn somewhere that slugs are canibals and like t=
o
eat a dying/dead relative .. and in fact I hav seen them doing do .. so I
try to use that as a 'trap' .. :( .. what a theme this is ..
-- did I spell coffin wrong? -- should been caffeine? ( that
'wake-us-up-stuff in coffee?) - sorry again ..
- there you see how it is to be me and not having enough time to
participate in a good way in this list .. so I think: the word must look
like this 'xxx'.. write it 'xxx' .. and then I have created a new word
'xxx' that you think rather should been xhtxythx' :)
- I do not want to make mistakes, but sitting with the dictionary all the
time is just not possible for me. Thank you to those of you being patient
and not blaming me - my english is the 'perfect norwegian english dialect=
'
:) - why not? Why don't you say coffin when you say coffee . . why is it
changed to an 'a' from 'o'. ( funny thing that in norwegian it is just th=
e
other way - silly here too: it is 'kaffi' for coffee and 'koffein' for
caffein :) .. language! I use too much energy on this for nothing else
than getting misunderstood.
today's norwegian leasson is over :)
Arnhild
ps .. sorry :) -- I could not help LOL when I looked up the word coffin
now *after* writing all this -- well -- caffein should give the slug's
their coffin , so ... now I see the playing with words I made without
knowing !
