Slug Fest 2009
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My vegetable garden is coming along. I have several tomato buds; my cilantro and parsley are quadrupling in size; my shaky basil is regaining strength. All is well. Almost.
Enter the slug.
Yes, I my garden has slugs. So I filled a couple of caps full of beer and placed them around the garden. Then it rained and washed my beer away. And the next day I had even more slugs.
Ugh.
Today, I revisited the garden not less than eight times. And found slugs EVERY. TIME. My solution? Throw them as hard as I can across the yard and scream, “SEE YOU IN FOUR YEARS.”
And tonight I placed bowls, not small caps, of beer around the garden. If I see even ONE slug tomorrow, it will be the end of all this nicey-nice. I will resort to chemicals. *Sigh*
But all I can think in this struggle is, I must be growing a good garden if it’s attracting slugs, no?
Ugh, slugs freak me out. I find them in my apt all the time, dead. But otherwise, that’s so awesome you’re doing your own garden!
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We always put tomato slices in the beer. It seemed to work…..
Slugs used to get at my bell peppers but left everything else alone. So I went straight to all-out chemical warfare.
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I’ve never had a garden, but the house I grew up in had slugs inside ALL the time. Leaving weird, shiny trails over the dining room carpet. I don’t mind slugs, in general, but I was always worried about the cats eating them. I didn’t want to kill them, though. So I grabbed a paper plate (labeled SLUG PLATE in marker), scooped them up, and flung them across the yard. I always got mad when someone threw away the slug plate; it seemed wasteful.
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What is the significance of four years?
Salt the mofo’s
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Maybe garlic and butter would be a better solution? I hate slugs.
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Ryan, to answer your question of why four years:
So, a slug crawls up to house and knocks on the door. A man opens the door, sees the slug, then gently scoops it up and throws it as far as he can.
Four years later, the slug knocks on the door again.
The same man answers.
The slug says to the man, “So what was THAT all about?”
Basil and cilantro will grow very well in large pots if you want to get them off the ground and away from sluggage.
Pontchartain Pete’s last blog post..Tales of the Cocktail 2009
Listen to this advice from San Francisco, Slug Capital of the West, (only Santa Cruz beats us: their university team is called The Banana Slugs!) Use the beer method. But not just any beer. It’s got to be a really hoppy beer like a British or Irish brand. Guinness or some sort of micro brew. And push the dish into the earth so it’s like a slug swimming pool. They head into it and drown. Works every time and no need to resort to chemicals.
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We had slugs at one point; I used the saltwater effect with them…..more salt less water OR the Guinness Lager is great because according to my husband “you almost have to chew the beer in order to get it swallowed” !
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I’ll send you two chicks. It’s a win-win. They eat slugs and turn them into eggs.
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