Gelatinous Octahedrons in my garden

[ppfuf]

They are really more gelatinous blobs.
I've got slime mold. Last night I went out to collect snails (got a half a quart size ziplock, a few of them were very big) and found several colorless blobs. Yuck. I scooped them up and put them in the bag with the snails. Does anybody know how to prevent them from coming back? 

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[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

I went looking because I was intrigued by the question.

http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/TRA/PLANTS/index.html#http://www.coopext.colostate.edu/TRA/PLANTS/slime.html

Says there isn't much to do about them. Other sites mostly agree, although removing them and drying out the area they are growing in may help.

I was thinking of you tonight: the wonderful reproduction medieval glass you and Geoffrey gave us for our wedding is doing duty as a vase, where we can admire it.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, I'm impressed you still have it. That glassware is usually quite fragile.
I had a good time at your wedding, the bit about the exchange of livestock was quite funny.

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

that was me. I forgot I wasn't logged in.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

It has spent a lot of time in the box, but I really like it, so have been careful with it.

[mad-duchess.livejournal.com]

Loooovely article. I like the way it starts out comparing the mold to a pile of dog vomit, but then by the end advises us to just relax and enjoy them. WTF?

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

The slime molds in my yard were strangely pretty; colorless and perfectly clear. They looked like oddly shaped ice cubes. It wasn't until they got rolled in the dirt as I tried to pick them up with the trowel they got kinda gross looking. I can't find any pictures of ones like the blobs in my garden, maybe because they're not as icky looking as the dog vomit ones.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

I did find some mention of the transparent ones; apparently they have more protein than the other sort. But treatment, or lack of it, for them seems to be the same.

[dame-cordelia.livejournal.com]

They have more protein than the other sort. I don't think I needed to know that.

Call me clueless

[nibuca.livejournal.com]

Why were you collecting snails?

When it rains my porch overruns with them.. I just pick them off an fling them into the neighbor's yard.

Sylvie

Re: Call me clueless

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

Why? Because the monopodded little bastards are eating my plants!
I dislike spraying insecticides on my herb garden, so I pick the snails up, seal them in plastic bags and put them in the trash. Someday, I'm sure, I'll be due for a karmic ass-kicking for making them die in such a horrible way, but for now I want them off my plants. They can live in the ivy, but not the herb garden or the irises.