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? 

Comments

[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.