09-20-2013, 04:52 AM
Mainly from eating uncooked greens & produce (there are many pages on this in the search) as slugs & semi slugs slime over the produce & leave the parasite... There are camps on whether or not certain washes work...
Since the slugs & semi slugs are in the ground, the best thing to do for uncooked produce is to keep them out of ground contact - benches, hydroponics & such... but the buggas can slime up buckets & bench legs, so you need to keep them from climbing (for some reason they do not cross un-oxidied copper, so that is one way - have shiny copper barriers (OK, easier said than kept up...but can be done)
Have also seen things like a hanging guttter hydro garden for leafy greens, probably even better if you have copper gutters...but will not go into the $$$ of that idea... but if you have old ones that gotta go...)
There are slug & snail baits, but one is very not great for the environment & not pet safe and the other is not real rain stable...
Since the slugs & semi slugs are in the ground, the best thing to do for uncooked produce is to keep them out of ground contact - benches, hydroponics & such... but the buggas can slime up buckets & bench legs, so you need to keep them from climbing (for some reason they do not cross un-oxidied copper, so that is one way - have shiny copper barriers (OK, easier said than kept up...but can be done)
Have also seen things like a hanging guttter hydro garden for leafy greens, probably even better if you have copper gutters...but will not go into the $$$ of that idea... but if you have old ones that gotta go...)
There are slug & snail baits, but one is very not great for the environment & not pet safe and the other is not real rain stable...