It’s too wet here in Limousin France and it’s a real downer as I hoped for a flaming June to start providing sweet fruits etc from the garden. Slugs are mustering. I think they have detected the aroma of naive gardeners coming from our plot and every time we throw them over the hedge into the woods they come back days later bigger and stronger looking; like there’s a Worlds Gym down there selling body bulk drinks for slugs. I started out believing that the red slugs eat other slugs so I didn’t see the need to murder them in some way. Then one day I caught one of the blighter’s scoffing my seedlings. Of course it’s too late by then he’s on the mobile ringing his mates. My neighbour has a veg plot next door with no grass areas or planks between beds at all and when we moved in we thought it looked barren and in-hospitable. Now we know however that there is nowhere for the slugs to hide in their garden, and we have created an all you can eat slug buffet. In conclusion I have decided to turn Catholic in my garden; if it’s good enough for Tony Blair its good enough for me. I shall henceforth follow the advice from a Catholic Bishop during the Albigensian Crusades. When he was told by his commanders that they could not distinguish between Catholic’s and heretics He is reported to have said “Kill them all God will Know his own”. So there will be no wishy washy treatment of slugs, no Camp Deltas or interrogations to discover whether they eat other slugs or plants they are enemy combatants with no legal status whatsoever and without trail or fair hearing will be sentenced to drown in beer. Thats that sorted then, now I’m on a downer about America ,and how I love the fruit and hate the tree, aaaaah well such is the melancholy of rainy day’s.
“Kill them all”
June 22, 2007 by arnoldthemethodical
I enjoyed your post. I know how you feel, as I’ve been murdering the bastards in my own garden. I didn’t even realize that I had a slug problem until I happened to look in the garden one night. How naive I was…
I think I’ll continue my night-time slaughter-fests, as I like to keep the beer for myself.
Be carefull Maggie you are bieng drawn to the darkside its starts with slugs then the odd rapper “well who will miss one more rapper”. and that woman at the checkout who never smiles. But still it is a pain watching your pride and joy scoffed without a thank you by these bastards. Like all your blogs by the way.
Arnoldthemethodical, you are very perceptive. You are right, I am sliding down the slippery slopes. I’ve already started squashing japanese beetles and cabbage worms and flea beetles, who know what (or who is next)? It is alarming, and I might need help.
In the meantime, I was out again last night, and I was pleased to see that the slug population was about half of what I had seen on my first after-dark outing. Either the word is spreading (and they are heading for safer gardens), or I have made a dent in the population.
PS: I forgot to tell you how I chuckled mightily at the quote: “Kill them all God will Know his own”. Very funny!
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Put them in a catapult and fire them at the buzzards who might get those chickens. No….seriously, don’t touch them…..the slimey muck takes ages to get off. I picked one up by accident thinking it was a carrot!!
Maggie.
I do hope you are winning the slug battle or they could be mustering a large army before returning. Always be vigilant, imagine your eating carrots round at Mike Elliott’s house.
Mike.
I think Maggie would help, my own eyesight is as bad or worse than yours.She may get carried away though and beat your carrots with a stick and drown them in beer.
Well, I think I am winning the slug battle. I used to pick up the slugs with sticks, but suddenly realized I had started picking them up with my bare fingers. In any case, my vengeance hasn’t branched out to anything other than insects, so the carrots appear to be safe at the moment. Unless, of course, they start to annoy me…
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