In article ,
Pete C wrote:


Yellow wrote:

It is the saltiness of the water rather than the bodies that is
causing me concern - would it be ok to pour that on to my garden?

NO! Not on your garden. The salt will kill everything in sight. I'd say a
street drain............but that's illegal, so I didn't say it

No, it won't. If it is a strong solution, it will kill some of the
plants it goes on, but will wash away harmlessly in the rain. The
technique of salting fields to stop farming works only in areas
where the evaporation exceeds the rainfall, and nowhere in the UK
(not even the driest part of Essex) gets close to that.

Even there, the excess of rainfall over evaporation is 200 Kg/m^2,
though there is no excess in the summer. That will wash away at
least 10 Kg/m^2 of salt. In the west, you are talking about 5-10
times those figures. And the odd kilo of salt in the groundwater
is neither here nor there - even if every gardener in the country
did it!


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

wrote:
In article ,
Pete C wrote:


Yellow wrote:

It is the saltiness of the water rather than the bodies that is
causing me concern - would it be ok to pour that on to my garden?

NO! Not on your garden. The salt will kill everything in sight. I'd
say a street drain............but that's illegal, so I didn't say it


No, it won't. If it is a strong solution, it will kill some of the
plants it goes on, but will wash away harmlessly in the rain. The
technique of salting fields to stop farming works only in areas
where the evaporation exceeds the rainfall, and nowhere in the UK
(not even the driest part of Essex) gets close to that.

Even there, the excess of rainfall over evaporation is 200 Kg/m^2,
though there is no excess in the summer. That will wash away at
least 10 Kg/m^2 of salt. In the west, you are talking about 5-10
times those figures. And the odd kilo of salt in the groundwater
is neither here nor there - even if every gardener in the country
did it!


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
I bow to your superior knowledge Nick
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On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:42:35 +0100, Yellow
wrote:

After taking some advice, I have been popping today's collection of
slugs and snails, collected while weeding, into a bucket of salty water
to kill them.

But now what?

A silly question perhaps but what do people do with the resultant
carnage? Pour it down the drain?

You leave it to set and you've got slug jam.
Put it in the bin. Probably best sent to the tip.
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Yellow wrote:

A silly question perhaps but what do people do with the resultant
carnage? Pour it down the drain?

You could always take them along to the local church and ask the vicar
to give them a decent send-off and say a few words: He was the salt of
the earth, enjoyed being in the garden where he worked tirelessly to
ensure no leaf remained unturned; every leaf he encountered became holy.
Now lettuce pray.

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mogga ] said:
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:42:35 +0100, Yellow
wrote:

After taking some advice, I have been popping today's collection of
slugs and snails, collected while weeding, into a bucket of salty water
to kill them.

But now what?

A silly question perhaps but what do people do with the resultant
carnage? Pour it down the drain?

You leave it to set and you've got slug jam.
Put it in the bin. Probably best sent to the tip.


I asked a gardening keen friend at work how he dealt with slug and snail
disposal and he told me his mum (when she was fit enough to garden) used
to fill an old fabric softener bottle with water and pop the critters in
that. When the bottle was full the lid was screwed on tight and it was
then put into the dustbin for the bin men to collect for landfill. :-)

And the most votes at my workplace, when I revealed I tended to go on
the hunt after dark, was to just throw them over the fence.....

Yellow wrote:

And the most votes at my workplace, when I revealed I tended to go on
the hunt after dark, was to just throw them over the fence.....

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned my way of dealing with them. Heel of
the boot applied to them at high speed. They are flat before they know
what has happened to them. Probably less cruel than a slow death in salt
water. Plus the little critters are automatically recycled back into the
garden ecosystem. From cabbages they came, to cabbages they return :-)

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On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:30:01 +0100, Yellow
wrote:

mogga ] said:
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:42:35 +0100, Yellow
wrote:

After taking some advice, I have been popping today's collection of
slugs and snails, collected while weeding, into a bucket of salty water
to kill them.

But now what?

A silly question perhaps but what do people do with the resultant
carnage? Pour it down the drain?

You leave it to set and you've got slug jam.
Put it in the bin. Probably best sent to the tip.


I asked a gardening keen friend at work how he dealt with slug and snail
disposal and he told me his mum (when she was fit enough to garden) used
to fill an old fabric softener bottle with water and pop the critters in
that. When the bottle was full the lid was screwed on tight and it was
then put into the dustbin for the bin men to collect for landfill. :-)

And the most votes at my workplace, when I revealed I tended to go on
the hunt after dark, was to just throw them over the fence.....

As long as you never mix them up...

Years ago I used to hunt them at night. huge hungry monsters that
ended up in a big tin which congealed into a really solid mass in the
end.
Later I learned to have fun with them first and sat and watched them
race to a beery death.
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:43:35 +0200, David in Normandy
wrote:

Yellow wrote:

And the most votes at my workplace, when I revealed I tended to go on
the hunt after dark, was to just throw them over the fence.....

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned my way of dealing with them. Heel of
the boot applied to them at high speed. They are flat before they know
what has happened to them. Probably less cruel than a slow death in salt
water. Plus the little critters are automatically recycled back into the
garden ecosystem. From cabbages they came, to cabbages they return :-)


My gran used to get us to collect butterflies when we were little. A
jar to put them in and we'd hand it over when we went home. Many years
later I discovered what she did with them.
I
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On 2009-06-13 20:00:09 +0100, "Pete C" said:



Yellow wrote:
Sheila ] said:

"Yellow" wrote in message
...
After taking some advice, I have been popping today's collection of
slugs and snails, collected while weeding, into a bucket of salty
water to kill them.

But now what?

A silly question perhaps but what do people do with the resultant
carnage? Pour it down the drain?

compost heap?


I do not have a compost heap. Unfortunately I do not have the room nor
do I have the waste to put on it as I have a relatively small garden
with no grass.

Just a couple beds and lots of pots. :-)

bury them!

It is the saltiness of the water rather than the bodies that is
causing me concern - would it be ok to pour that on to my garden?
NO! Not on your garden. The salt will kill everything in sight. I'd say a
street drain............but that's illegal, so I didn't say it

Nor did I. And I did nothing of the sort myself, either! Birds won't
take them because of the salt and if thet do, it may well harm them, so
street drain or loo? Hmmmmm......! ;-)
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Sacha
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Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2009-06-13 20:00:09 +0100, "Pete C" said:



Yellow wrote:
Sheila ] said:

"Yellow" wrote in message
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After taking some advice, I have been popping today's collection of
slugs and snails, collected while weeding, into a bucket of salty
water to kill them.

Why salty water, cant you put ordinary water in? or at least give them some
beer...

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"Sheila" wrote in message
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2009-06-13 20:00:09 +0100, "Pete C" said:



Yellow wrote:
Sheila ] said:

"Yellow" wrote in message
...
After taking some advice, I have been popping today's collection of
slugs and snails, collected while weeding, into a bucket of salty
water to kill them.

Why salty water, cant you put ordinary water in? or at least give them
some beer...



What's wrong with pouring boiling water over them?

Worked for us for years.

Or is that tooooooooooooooooooooo simple????

Mike

On 2009-06-16 16:23:33 +0100, "Sheila" said:


"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2009-06-13 20:00:09 +0100, "Pete C" said:



Yellow wrote:
Sheila ] said:

"Yellow" wrote in message
...
After taking some advice, I have been popping today's collection of
slugs and snails, collected while weeding, into a bucket of salty
water to kill them.

Why salty water, cant you put ordinary water in? or at least give them some
beer...

You could use beer traps but water doesn't work. They seem to just
climb out of the buckets when I've tried that. Salt water kills them.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2009-06-16 16:23:33 +0100, "Sheila" said:
You could use beer traps but water doesn't work. They seem to just climb
out of the buckets when I've tried that. Salt water kills them.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon


If the OP is worried about the salt content then, why not dilute the bucket
and then compost? You would only need to fill the bucket 3/4 inches of
salty water?

On 2009-06-16 17:31:11 +0100, "Sheila" said:


"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2009-06-16 16:23:33 +0100, "Sheila" said:
You could use beer traps but water doesn't work. They seem to just climb
out of the buckets when I've tried that. Salt water kills them.
--
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon


If the OP is worried about the salt content then, why not dilute the bucket
and then compost? You would only need to fill the bucket 3/4 inches of
salty water?

I believe the OP said she'd doesn't have room for a compost heap hence
the query as to what to do with the bodies.

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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon

"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2009-06-16 17:31:11 +0100, "Sheila" said:

I believe the OP said she'd doesn't have room for a compost heap hence the
query as to what to do with the bodies.


Ah yes, now I remember, well, either bird table or bin!