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Slugs? You say ‘throw pellets at em!’

So we asked, what’s your preferred slug killing method and you voted. Here are the results of our poll, The Big Bad Slug.

The clear winner with over a third of the votes was for slug pellets, the second was for ‘other’, but we shall go into that in more detail in a moment. Building barriers came in third followed by salt, skewer/scissors (eeek) and finally feeding to the birds.

Here’s your Slug Killing ideas which nearly a fifth of voters selected showing us that we had not mentioned a number of other deterrents.

• Beer – by far the most popular choice, the ‘sink or swim’ method
• Ducks and Chickens – a tasty snack apparently
• Natural predators and growing other plants for slugs – keeping it organic
• Copper wire and nematodes also got a mention too.

Some of you clearly feel quite strongly, suggesting we ‘pick them up at night and teach them to fly into the main road’, or the suggestion that made us all squirm in the office, ‘cut them up into little pieces and have them for dinner’. Nice.

So there you have it, if slugs are being a problem now you have solutions to try out. Although, I have tried a bit of slug ‘javelin’ in the past but I personally don’t have the stomach for any seasoning, skewering, chopping or even eating for that matter!

All the talk of slugs in the office got everyones creative juices flowing. Below you can find our shocking attempts to try and sketch the ultimate Big Bad Slug.

So you can sleep at night you’ll be happy to know that these nasty pieces of work are no longer on the loose. They were all picked up by the Pellet Police during a midnight raid on Daisy Boots cabbage patch. They’re currently being held at Slugtanamo Bay detention camp. This is a high security facility where these elusive seven slugs will await identification and a relatively fair trial.

Have you seen these slugs before, can you ID them? If you recognise any of these individuals you must act by leaving their names in the comment box below. See these suspects again on the BBC tonight at 10pm – Slug Crime Watch. “Don’t have nightmares”

DB: I really need to sort out my Cultivation Station.

VG: Have you planted the cabbages I gave you yet?

DB: No not yet I need to sort out the Cultivation Station.

VG: Have you watered the cabbages yet?

DB: It rained…..

VG: *blank look*

DB: (Changing the subject) Do you know what attacks cabbages at this time of year?

VG: You are asking me? Slugs probably, they attack everything. I even spotted one after my pepper plant this morning, luminous orange it was and I could see it from the patio window.

DB: Hmm….. (wishing she hadn’t asked).

VG: You know what? I don’t understand this annual wall planner for growing vegetables.

DB: How’s that?

VG: Well it says I should be planting cabbages in February, but I got mine from the man down the road who said I could plant them now.

DB: The man down the road?

VG: Yes.

DB: Ok (puzzled). Anyway that means planting seeds and your cabbages are already grown.

VG: Oh right, so when does that mean I can harvest them?

DB: Well the best thing to do is look on the packet.

VG: But they didn’t come in a packet.

DB: I don’t know then.

Note to self: Ask man down the road when I can harvest the cabbages – usually before or at purchase – not after.
Note to readers: The man down the road is actually an employee at a plant nursery.