[click image]... have been marching toward my garden for the past two days, and I have been going out for twice-daily raids. The carnage is breathtaking. Horrifying rivers of slime.
They cannot have my strawberries. Not. Going. To. Happen.
04 June 2009
battalions of slugs the size of puppies
[click image]... have been marching toward my garden for the past two days, and I have been going out for twice-daily raids. The carnage is breathtaking. Horrifying rivers of slime.
They cannot have my strawberries. Not. Going. To. Happen.
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Ew!!! Which reminds me, must remember to put my used coffee grinds around that ligularia after breakfast! This is slug and snail country after all.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you use?
Hi, marja-leena! I'm ashamed to say I've been using Corry's. The plan had been to just use the pellets until I was rid of the worst of it. It was REALLY bad, and in fact I thought I had it knocked. Drastic reduction in snails, which I thought was the worst of it and I usually got the slugs on the drive with salt, but this year the slugs are catastrophically many and, like I say, they aren't little. All coming in from the north side of my property... like twenty of them a day, and so I snapped and got the powder to heap on them and then X many of their cousins come and get nailed a little while later.
ReplyDeleteI used to use beer traps and coffee at my old place, where the problem was not so horrific, and I thought I was going back to that this year, too until it got this outrageous.
I swear to goodness I have never had so many garden pests in my life! Everything known to man that ruins gardens heads straight for my place. I can't tell you how many times I've gone out to the garden in time to see something I've raised from a seed being pulled underground by some miserable rodent from the underground metropolis/utopia that undergirds me here!
Makes me want a gun!
So, well, ordinarily I'm about as organic as they come, but, sheesh, this is macabre and I've gone crazy. Hope to recover my equanimity soon... or... get the gun!
:-P
Really! I used to have myself a totally righteous compost worm farm thing going at my old place. 86 and I used to mix our compost with the dirt from our neighbors' exhausted potted dope crops in bins we made and turned it all into the most outrageously wonderful potting soil. I had ancient boring maroon dahlias in a huge tub on the deck, and turned them psychedelicly bright neon lilac-colored with bright yellow in the middle. People went nuts for my gorgeous flowers and vegetables.
ReplyDeleteI seem to have landed in the garden from hell. :-(
At one place I lived the garden struggled to produce. Things grew slowly and the products were small and few. I found out later that I had put the garden right where the old path to the pastures was and the soil was compacted and lacked nutrients after years of tractor traffic.
ReplyDeleteThe following year, having moved to a new location, I doubled the plantings only to find out later this garden was in a spot that had been a garden for 75 years and the soil was well tilled and enriched with years of composting.
The zuccini grew a foot per day and I had enough tomatoes to start a ketchup factory!