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I read this about cutting slugs in half and thought I’d try it just now… Don’t know what I was expecting but it wasn’t all the guts spilling out from either half 🤮
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Yeah it's a bit shit, but you've just got to roll with it.
The other option is to get a tub and collect them all up and pop them in the green waste bin.
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I went through a phase last year of collecting as many as I could find each morning and lobbing them straight into the hotbin.
I've gone for the more Zen approach this year of not removing any and don't think the garden is any the worse for it.
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I tried cutting them in half, but the birds wouldn't eat them. My OH is an animal lover and made me feel guilty so now I put them in our green recycling bin. Although that batch was in a cut up carton so it just went in the general waters bin... and starving to death amongst the smell of a pair of children's fermenting nappies seems pretty dark.
On beer traps, sorry if you already know this but they've got to be very well set up. Otherwise it just attracts them and the majority have a little drink and carry on while a couple falling in makes you think it's working.
On the eggshells Ymmv. For my sunflowers last year egg shells did fuck all. But then much of my garden has multiple layers of plants and foliage so I think they just travel on that.