Whisper it, but we seem to have lost little yet to the slugs and snails which were such a problem in my garden last year...
It's not that there aren't any of the critturs around. We planted a couple of slug pubs in the garden last weekend and they seem to have been satifyingly busy over the week, with tens of bodies to throw into the compost heap this morning. The one next to the scabious clump (which has been well chewed by something) was the most crowded.
I spotted a few chewed leaves on the black elder and the hairy mint this morning (and aphid foam on the black peppermint) but lettuce on the allotment, and lobelia planted out last week seem (fingers crossed) untouched. However, half the early Nantes carrots seeds planted in March either didn't come up or met an early lunch date - I'm just not aware of having lost carrots to slugs before.
Even if the recent cold snap has temporarily slowed them down, I'm staying watchful.
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I just wish they were gone but, alas no... need to get more pellets (no, not for the air rifle)...
Slugs and snails are such a nuisance some years ago we loked after a friends duck for a fortnight while they went on holiday. Daffy ld swallow snails whole and you could see them go down his gullet. However for two years we had very few slugs and snails in the garden. I have always been tempted to ge duck but Mike is not at all keen so we resort to slug pellets our only non green vice.
I haven't had many slugs this year either but I have also been using organic slug pellets like they're going out of fashion.
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