Oooh, the indestructible St John's Wort in the garden is budding. It's growing in the wrong place (hence I know it's indestructible) but it is very photogenic.
It's a slug party,
and I've bought them all a beer
Let's invite them to come right over,
and have a great cheer
It was the cheapest beer they sell nearby
But for a party it will fly
The question is really,
Will they just get drunk, or die?
But not in the way you think, at least in my experiment (sample size n=1).
The beer attracts slugs, and saw dozens of slugs climb INTO the slug trap, drink beer, and leave much fatter.
The wood rat in the backyard (after swigging a bunch of beer itself) then ATE a bunch of those slugs... must have spent 15 minutes finding all the beer filled slugs and tearing them to bits and eating them.
So, the slugs are dead... but not DIRECTLY through the beer.
Oh geez. Well, if you ever wanted to watch slugs getting rip roaring drunk on beer (and not actually getting trapped by said beer)... here you go. h/t @stfn#slugs#gardening#beer
I served some beer for the slugs outside
Hoping it would work to give them a ride
To the great beyond where the big slugs go
And finally stop eating the squash and tomato
Unfortunately it appears I have gone too far
And built a great happening slug bar
Where the beer is cheap and the music is great
And you can stay out all night with your hot slug date
I never understood how it could be interesting. My mother and both her parents were avid gardeners, I couldn't have cared less.
Now I realise it has to do with having your own space in which to garden. It's a privilege. Allotments are so important to those who otherwise have no land around their homes in which to potter and plant.
It's a joy isn't it? Pruning, planting, tending and weeding. Not a chore. A slow, gentle, growing joy.
@sarajw last thing I'll say is to try diatomaceous earth, you can just sprinkle it in a circle around the drip line of the plants and see if that helps, anything with a "soft" body will not want to go over that
No it's definitely slugs, seeing how many there were and having caught several in the act. That damage didn't happen overnight, we were away for 10 days and a lot of it happened then.
Another thing I like about St John's Wort - they provide an exceptional style guide for any aliens that invade earth and want to breed people in organic pods.
