Slugs are lushes. They want BEER and will happily drown themselves in a bowl with an inch or so of leftover beer in the bottom left out in the garden, set down into the soil until rim is just above ground level. It's enough to drive a druid out of his tree-
The "Brevette Pfc. Billy Masterson" screen name is stolen from an obscure SF story by either Kilgore Trout or Kurt Vonnegut AFAICR- Google doesn't admit to knowing.
"Ley lines". Lines of mystical/magical/woo-woo force, allegedly. And turn the page. Or better yet, start the comic at the beginning & learn the odd tale of a wombat mining engineer, shanghaied into an alternate universe.
Same for me with the beer, after a week it hadn't made a dent in the outbreak I had going and things were getting stripped bare at a rate that was giving me real heartburn. The iron bait had the mischief managed in two evenings. It's really dry here and those are a rare pest, it might be a different story somewhere else.
"I left them alone thinking they were normal & harmless and the lizards and frogs would eat them." ha, that was my first reaction too - probably the worst regular pest I have is late season aphids, and they don't even come close to the utter destruction those slugs brought. In 16 years of gardening here the slugs are the only garden pest I ever bought and applied a "chemical" pesticide in the garden to get rid of them and I don't regret it.
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Slugs are lushes. They want BEER and will happily drown themselves in a bowl with an inch or so of leftover beer in the bottom left out in the garden, set down into the soil until rim is just above ground level. It's enough to drive a druid out of his tree-
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@ArtistFormerlyKnownAsHuffy
The "Brevette Pfc. Billy Masterson" screen name is stolen from an obscure SF story by either Kilgore Trout or Kurt Vonnegut AFAICR- Google doesn't admit to knowing.
oh man, ley lines is a fun rabbit hole you might enjoy
"Ley lines". Lines of mystical/magical/woo-woo force, allegedly. And turn the page. Or better yet, start the comic at the beginning & learn the odd tale of a wombat mining engineer, shanghaied into an alternate universe.
Same for me with the beer, after a week it hadn't made a dent in the outbreak I had going and things were getting stripped bare at a rate that was giving me real heartburn. The iron bait had the mischief managed in two evenings. It's really dry here and those are a rare pest, it might be a different story somewhere else.
"I left them alone thinking they were normal & harmless and the lizards and frogs would eat them." ha, that was my first reaction too - probably the worst regular pest I have is late season aphids, and they don't even come close to the utter destruction those slugs brought. In 16 years of gardening here the slugs are the only garden pest I ever bought and applied a "chemical" pesticide in the garden to get rid of them and I don't regret it.