Slugs question

**Alan1** · 16-05-2010, 08:59 PM

I'm just wondering, when you have lettuce or cabbage or herbs or stuff like that growing in your garden, do you still eat them if you notice signs of slugs having been on them?

EquestrianBabe · 16-05-2010, 09:08 PM

Well, maybe you would wash them then eat them? Slugs used to eat away at my Granda's strawberries, and them ones he didn't eat. Every time we found a good strawberry we would thoroughly wash before eating.

**Alan1** · 16-05-2010, 09:09 PM

Did you wash those strawberries really really well EB?

**Alan1** · 16-05-2010, 09:17 PM

The reason I ask is... I found this little chap tonight and it has made me think differently about salad type foods and strawberries etc

Lolly8 · 16-05-2010, 09:20 PM

Yak,yak,yak...Alan.

I just wanted to say that I would cut out places where slugs been eating but I've changed my mind now.

I never touch anything anymore where slugs had been...

**Alan1** · 16-05-2010, 09:24 PM

EquestrianBabe · 16-05-2010, 10:09 PM

Yep, Alan, really well. Six or seven times. We sometimes let them steep in a bowl for 3-4 minutes too. We even dried them with a piece of kitchen roll. It probably helped them be cleaner too. We did clean them thoroughly.

That picture is gross Alan! Are they your droppings?

TortBabe · 16-05-2010, 10:16 PM

You now have put me off anything homegrown!!

**Alan1** · 16-05-2010, 10:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EquestrianBabe

That picture is gross Alan! Are they your droppings?

No, it was a dog I suspect, a tasty meal for the wee slug

EquestrianBabe · 16-05-2010, 10:19 PM

Good thing my homegrown lettuce is going to the snails

When It grows properly. Its little shoots at the moment. In the summer, probably 90% of tortoise weeds grown outside have been eaten/tasted by slugs . . . . . poor them! Also picked weeds from weed hunts.

16-05-2010, 08:59 PM	#1
Alan1 Super Moderator Adult Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Sunny Scotland Posts: 21,512	Slugs question I'm just wondering, when you have lettuce or cabbage or herbs or stuff like that growing in your garden, do you still eat them if you notice signs of slugs having been on them?

16-05-2010, 09:08 PM	#2
EquestrianBabe Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: At home with my pets! Posts: 3,991	Well, maybe you would wash them then eat them? Slugs used to eat away at my Granda's strawberries, and them ones he didn't eat. Every time we found a good strawberry we would thoroughly wash before eating. __________________ I ♥ Horses

16-05-2010, 09:20 PM	#5
Lolly8 Senior Member Adult Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Stoke on Trent Posts: 5,276	Yak,yak,yak...Alan. I just wanted to say that I would cut out places where slugs been eating but I've changed my mind now. I never touch anything anymore where slugs had been... __________________

16-05-2010, 10:09 PM	#7
EquestrianBabe Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: At home with my pets! Posts: 3,991	Yep, Alan, really well. Six or seven times. We sometimes let them steep in a bowl for 3-4 minutes too. We even dried them with a piece of kitchen roll. It probably helped them be cleaner too. We did clean them thoroughly. That picture is gross Alan! Are they your droppings? __________________ I ♥ Horses

16-05-2010, 10:16 PM	#8
TortBabe Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 6,919	You now have put me off anything homegrown!! __________________ Busy Mum to ~ 2 Kids, 2 Yorkies, 1 Horsfield, 6 Hermanns, 2 Iberas, 6 Tunisians, 2 Indian Stars and 2 Pancakes

16-05-2010, 09:09 PM	#3
Alan1 Super Moderator Adult Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Sunny Scotland Posts: 21,512	Did you wash those strawberries really really well EB?

16-05-2010, 09:17 PM	#4
Alan1 Super Moderator Adult Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Sunny Scotland Posts: 21,512	The reason I ask is... I found this little chap tonight and it has made me think differently about salad type foods and strawberries etc

16-05-2010, 09:24 PM	#6
Alan1 Super Moderator Adult Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Sunny Scotland Posts: 21,512

16-05-2010, 10:19 PM	#10
EquestrianBabe Senior Member Adult Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: At home with my pets! Posts: 3,991	Good thing my homegrown lettuce is going to the snails When It grows properly. Its little shoots at the moment. In the summer, probably 90% of tortoise weeds grown outside have been eaten/tasted by slugs . . . . . poor them! Also picked weeds from weed hunts. __________________ I ♥ Horses

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