I heard salt works!

with a tiny bow and arrows :o)

with a BIG foot!!!!

You use little tiny hammers, lovingly made by leprechauns, and paid for with dew. Or slug pellets.

Gather them all up and place them in a jar of bleach. It will work faster than salt. If you feel bad about killing them (salt slowly, bleach faster), then simply pick them off and throw them over to a corner of your garden where you won't see them, and they won't cause any trouble.

# Keep all decaying matter cleaned out of your garden beds. Clear all dead leaves from the garden. # Cultivation of the soil will help kill hibernating slugs and eggs. # Remove slugs and snails by hand. If you are too finicky, use chopsticks. If you get the slime on your fingers or hands pour a little cheap white vinegar on your hands and wash it off with lukewarm water. # Squish or drown the slugs in ajar of soapy water. # Install barriers of 2-inch or wider copper stripping around plants and flower beds. Do this only after you have removed all slugs around the plants. # Set yeast traps in troublesome beds. Sink a shallow jar so the top is flush with the ground. Fill the trap with beer, regular or nonalcoholic to 1/2 inch from the top and wait for the slugs to fall in and drown. A recent survey on what kind of beer slugs like best tells us they prefer Budweiser, Bud light, Coors light, Michelob, Old Milwaukee. Pretty good taste buds huh? # For those who don't want to waste beer, try adding 1/2 tsp. baking yeast and 1 tbsp. sugar to the water in each trap. # Minimize the moist and cool spots in your garden. Water lawns and gardens in the morning. These guys are nocturnal and can slither better on wet grass and soil. Some people use salt, but this is cruel; sure it's fun watching them bubble into nothing, but crushing them is quicker and more humane. http://www.familymatters.tv/level_4/homeandgarden/snails.htm

Get a broom, sweep them all up together and whack them with a shovel. It is the "kindest" way. Or, you can just put down diazanon powder. But, you must put out of your head the horrible agony of the poor creatures as they are strangling and choking on the poison. It comes down to what you can, as a sensitive being, allow yourself to do. You can also just ignore them and let your guests and neighbors tread upon them and crush them as they come and go. That would be within the limits of "natural and environmental death". But, there is also the possibility that one of your guests would slip and fall because of stepping on a number of snails and all the excretes that would be so dangerously ...excreted. Ultimately, it is for you and you alone to decide. We don't all like being put in the role of 'God', but, someone, sometime,... must inevitably.... do it.

I use a product of company "Neudorf", not poisenous to non-snails. (just iron and phosphat).

hopefully not by stepping on them with socks or bare feet

like slugs- pour salt on them

with little tiny hammers

Just stomp on them.