What's The Best Way to Elimiate Slug Eggs

Hi All,

My Mother-In-Law was removing some compost from her composter this evening and the compost is littered with slug eggs!! What is the best way to get rid of them?? Do they essentially render the compost useless??

Any help greatly appreciated.
Louise

Re: What's The Best Way to Elimiate Slug Eggs

Reply from Nicola

Hi Louise, there is a reply from Jan on Facebook. I cannot work out yet how to add replies from Facebook here yet!

Re: What's The Best Way to Elimiate Slug Eggs

Reply from Carol

Nasty chemicals don't work on the eggs, do they? - all the chemicals are things that the adult slugs eat, I think. It depends how much time you have. In my garden, as soon as I start messing with compost, the Robin appears. If you can leave the compost spread out on an open plastic bag or bit of sheeting, birds will eat quite a lot of the eggs - and a hot dry day won't do them any good at all. Also, they are probably there in the soil anyway, you just don't see them unless you dig them up - so it might not be as big a problem as it looks. They won't all hatch into huge voracious slugs even if you do nothing.