Slugs are a garden pest!
This is what I found!
‘How could you?!’ I cried
No response from the slug
‘Grrr’.
I ran into the house and grabbed the camera to collect photographic evidence. Still in a state of mild anger I then proceeded to prod them with the stick (known affectionately as the slug-o-pult) until they let go.
(By the way that huge hole in the slug wasn’t me – I think it’s a breathing hole or something.)
Anyway, we then had words about our deal.
So, although I was a little, ok well very unhappy, I did decide not to kill them but to ‘eject’ them from the garden using my slug-o-pult. It’s very easy to use, coax one slug onto the end of a stick, let it take hold, then draw back the arm and release with force.
I have to report that out of the two slugs that I managed to coax onto the slug-o-pult, only one actually made it over the fence to freedom, the other one made it to the fence and is currently still at large.
That aside I did feel bad for a split second as I heard the thud on the fence panel and I murmured ‘oops’, but it shouldn’t have munched my lettuce!
..…poor thing…sorry.
