Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening 5- jan 2014, in the snow, 0 by coleup

coleup wrote:
Lol Speedie yes, but they take a short cut throught the drainage holes on the container bottoms and up the container insides under cover!

On a perfect warm damp nite when I am out hand picking I have seen slugs climbing up my wood fences and house about 3'! They will also get to plants I have sitting on out door fully metal tables, my picnic table and heavy duty hard plastic plant display shelves ste up on 3 cement blocks so surface doesn't matter so much if there is enough moisture to facilitate their slime roads. I try to get the little ones before they mature enough to lays eggs They are kinda like earth worms, on the move when conditions are right. The ones I collect I dump at the end of my road where they can eat to thrie hearts content. So far haven't noticed any of them coming back! Birds will eat them frash or dried. They liked my coleus much more than my hosta. The eggs are overwintering now and will hatch when temps reach 40 or so. The first eggs I saw I thought they were used up osmacote!