HOW ABOUT THEM SLUGS? GRIN

JJ's picture created a bit of nostalgia....lol

weeee I like new scenery!

Oooooh! Aren't those beautiful.

Moon, DG said that this plant's hardiness zone is 9a-10b. I don't understand. I am 5b.

Nostalgia for you, heebie jeebies for me. lol

Liked it better when I had never seen one. Gonna blame it on the slug thread!

I just don't understand how something as beautiful as a hydraenga could have no scent!

that IS beautiful...I love the ones at Cape Cod....

Thanks all. Venice, it means that they are a perennial plant in those zones, but are an annual in the other zones8b and down. They will winter over in the higher numbered zones.

JJ, DHJim uses salt to kill them. You pour salt on them and they melt to death....just like the wicked witch of the West did when hit with water....lol

Hey, who all were on that slug thread from way back?

Moon, I thought that meant that it can only be grown in those zones! Sure glad I asked.

you still didn't tell me what all you got in your packet Venice!

Everyone but Imazadi, Seed, Flowers and Trina I think. Maybe Dixie.

Trina, they are all mixed up now. I still haven't gotten all the info on Excel yet. Do you want some seeds now?

That site really got excedingly gross! And slug movies! That is way too much!

I think JJ found the "actors" from the slug movie...Whatever Happened to Those Slugs...they moved to JJ's, probably looking for chili *grin*

Moon, I noticed that DG said the seeds are not true. Is that why you suggested that I do cuttings? Wow, a few more cold nights and it would have been a goner!

Can anybody tell me how I clean those tubers? Just rinse & pat dry?

Sure! That's good.

Use a very soft brush or a rag with water if needed.

Moon I think I'm gonna need a lot of salt.
Maybe someone should come up with a salt based mulch??

Dry for 3 days. I would put them on a cookie rack if you have one.

JJ, you better get some Slugo or similar before they lay eggs or have babies!!!!

You don't have to remove every speck of dirt Lynnie, and looking at you picture, there is very little attached, so you could just let them dry out in the garage for 2 or 3 days, then wrap them as Venice said.

Venice, some of the seeds will be New Guineas, some may be regular Impatiens and some will be I hawkeri....no way of knowing til you plant them, but in this case it really won't matter cuz they are all okay plants. It also means they may be different colors.

Lynnie I'll send you a couple slugs. They will clean "em for ya.

Just think next year I can have 'children of the corn' and the sequel ' The slugs that ate the children of the corn'.

Only problem with that JJ is ya wouldn't have any plants growing in it. Salt swells the capillaries and causes them to rupture, killing the plant.

for the sweet taters?

Venice No I don't want seeds now, I'm just nosy and want to know what ya got, I sent my sasbe off last week so I'm just curious

and NO thankfully I was not on the slug thread, It was still going but I wasn't on it

we are supposed to visualize what we want ...... no my bloomin onion from outback steakhouse did not magically appear, nor did my water spider orchids, waaaaaahhh!

LOL, JJ....hey Lynnie, our local dairy has a giant corn maze for Hallowe'en....wanna go?

Maybe I'll just raise them. Seems to be easier than getting rid of them.

Then I can get rich selling them for fish bait.
What do you think??

Now that is an idea. Except their lunch is your flowers!!!

Who ya gonna get to bait the hooks...EEwww, you'd have to touch them and that slime doesn't wash off easily...

Venice I had put some slug killer out there. Looks to me like it was food instead. They sure got fat and big!

I couldn't find any sluggo around here so guess I'll have to order some from somewhere.
I would think they would be going underground so probably getting to late, but I will feed them the resat of what I got.

I bought something like Slugo at Menard's. I didn't want several pounds of the stuff and this container was the size of Kraft Parmesan Cheese container. I only saw 4 slugs and 2 were babies. After I sprinkled that stuff, all gone!

If they catch big fish the guys won't care if they get slimed.

Otherwise I could sell a bag of slugs with a salt shaker to the kids for educational entertainment.

I checked in three towns around me and no one had any. So I bought whatever it is I have. (Can't remember the name) But don't think it worked.

educational entertainment? yeah....kinda like when I got the boys a book called Backyard ballistics? LOL

we did that earlier this year, there were a couple hundred baby slugs marching on my plants...ran right out with the salt.....I felt mean, but it was an emergency!

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I thought the salt would kill the plants???

I thought salt killed plants also.

And just,how in the heck is every one? Beautiful Hydrangeas Moon. LOL Trina, about the book. I bet young Hannibal loved it.

the slugs weren't on my plants yet....I should have said marching toward my plants, sorry my fault :) and yes all that salt would kill the plants. They were on the march.

the slugs were marching two by two, the little one stopped....

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Hi Dixie! How is the weather over there?