ah. just came in from a pleasant time koshering slugs.

rvb - I'm going to give you my secret recipe for slug slaughter...

it really works MUCH better than salt.

Get yourself 1 squirt bottle. Fill it with a mixture of 1/2 ammonia and 1/2 water.

Squirt those slugs! I won't go into detail about what happens to them as this IS a food site, but trust me, it makes salt look like a slow-working process.

I know whereof I speak about this topic. It's not unusual for me to have 100+ slugs in my yard in the morning. Sigh. I guess Washington can't be completely perfect!

 
it's a shame that my grandkids are all growing up.

i could just wring out their diapers on them.

btw, laquer thinner works pretty good too.

 
My brother-in-law sells beneficial insects for a living, including the occasional mollusk:

"decolate" snails. They're a small pointed snail that eats the eggs of the pesty kind. I've released them both at my house and at my community garden plot and though I don't see them around often, (they're shy) I think I have fewer of the escargot type. The catch is that it takes them a year or two to get established, and in the meantime you cannot use snail poison of any kind. I'll ask him if they eat slug eggs too.

His main customers are citrus orchards. He's also working on a scheme to collect garden snails, cook and freeze them, and send them to France. Apparently the forests of France and fresh out of snails.

 
No, he mostly sells to commercial growers in Fallbrook/San Diego areas. His real specialty is

avocado thrips. He does maintenance contracts in his area and mail order nation-wide. Here is his site. (He's third from the left . As for the text, you're on your own!!!)

He makes my sister so happy. She is such a strident, vocal envionmentalist...and when she met Jim I remember my mom emoting, "He's a doll! AND a bug doctor." Pre-approved.

Are we talking about the Farmers Market off Crenshaw? Or is there one in Riviera Village?

http://www.avocado.org/growers/pages/proceedings/p6_bio.php

 
Another effective way:

A neighbor (when I lived in the NW) told me to put out a few shallow dishes of beer. The slugs would drink it and then die. He said to let them die with a smile on their face. It saved a tomato plant crop one year.

 
I once picked a half bucket of snails from my garden and there were so many I knew I ...

didn't have enough salt. So I put in ammonia and covered the bucket with a board. I didn't know snails could scream...

 
Rick, I had to laugh...

I've been a salting those slugs for years. But I have to tell you, Siegfried the dachshund has the same morbid curiosity that you seem to have with the "show." He gets down and looks up close, just stares, head turns back and forth in wonder, and he just watches. His little brow furrowed in curiosity. That is the part I like best!

Now I'm dying to see what the ammonia does. Is it like putting mentos is coke???

Inquiring minds want to know.

 
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