I think the slugs in our garden have bellies of steel. A couple of weeks ago, we planted a large variety of vegetables in the garden. I planted quite a nice crop of butter lettuce, which is probably the most delicious lettuce I've ever tasted. It's almost like candy, it's so sweet and good. Almost... Anyway, I planted the nice crop of 6 butter lettuce plants and watered them and waited for them to grow... The next day I went out to survey the garden, only to discover that two of the lettuce plants were gone. GONE! Just annihilated without a trace. I thought that was a bit odd and sprinkled some pine shavings around the remaining lettuce plants. (One of those was half-eaten). A couple of days later, I checked on them again and ALL the lettuce was gone. And there was a big fat slug just sliming along the brick wall of the bed, all full and happy and looking for more lettuce.
We opted to use the freed-up space to plant a basil plant we'd been waiting to put in. The day after planting that, it was half-eaten too! So, I covered (I mean, really covered) the ground around the base of the plant with sand. Slugs aren't supposed to crawl on sand. But sure enough, these slugs with their steel-plated-stomachs slimed across the sand and chompchompchomped away at the rest of the basil. It's time to bring out the beer...
2 comments:
mmmmmmmm....beeeeerrrrr...
I wonder if the slugs like NA beer
noooooooooooooo! darn slugs. Have you tried beer? Not stale beer, but fresh beer in like a butter tub. They will crawl in and get all drunk and stuff and then well, fall into the beer. Or I've read that coffee grounds and citrus peels are supposed to work. Separately, though I suppose you could use both. Trash the peels in the morning!
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