<p>Double ewwwwwwwww.</p>
<p>I don’t have so much problems with slugs- not sure why- but I agree with the eggshells, they don’t really compost anyway- but sprinkling those around the yummy things is a good deterrent ( I do have hostas & those are tasty- guess I better start baking)</p>
<p>This thread is giving me new insights into some old-time posters…</p>
<p>LMNOP: you should see what I do to snails.</p>
<p>(I do limit my carnage to invertebrates.)</p>
<p>Thanks again, you guys are great!</p>
<p>Well, this morning, I had – without exaggeration – at least ten dead slugs in each of my 7 containers of beer around the gardens. But, even so, there were some still finishing off my lettuces, so I took dmd77’s advice and snipped them in half with scissors, which was almost unimaginably gross, but they must not win!! They have taken out my entire lettuce crop, and this is WAR!</p>
<p>I took a bucket of salt water out there, and will empty last night’s partying slugs into it, and into the compost (which is not near the garden and is full of slugs, ergggh!)</p>
<p>And later, I will get the diatomaceous earth, and start a new batch of lettuces. Ha!</p>
<p>You guys who suggested the eggshells, I did do that, but they get around them. I think these slugs in the Northeast must be members of Mensa – they read collegeconfidential. :)</p>
<p>Slug Wars! Prosecute with extreme prejudice! Mwahahaha…</p>
<p>Slug wars indeed. The slimy creatures absolutely thrive in my neck of the woods - THRIVE I tell you - and I’ve been doing battle for many a year. I have no mercy. They massacred my lovely little bed of strawberries early in my gardening years and it’s been “game on” ever since.</p>
<p>I unknowingly dug into a vole one time tending to that same bed of strawberries and mortally wounded the poor little thing. Then I had to quickly put it out of it’s misery. I had no idea it was there and it had done no harm that I could see. Now THAT made me feel bad.</p>
<p>Insult to injury, I can see a long slimy trail on a screen to a sliding door - and I just had all the windows and screens cleaned - how DARE the slimy things taunt me like that! Shears are definitely looking like the next line of defense…</p>