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I went out when it was overcast and rainy to pull up weeds while the ground was nice and soft and what do I find? A bevy of little brown slugs all a-feasting on the leaves of my lilies, I swear there was one on every leaf-tip, chewing away on the tender tips! That's a *lot* of leaf-tips, in my yard.
I had my favorite rubberized gloves on thankfully, so I had to grab and toss slugs for some time, pitching them all into the nearby large and prickly oregon-grape (where I don't care if they eat it or not) and when the rain stopped I got to go out to play the "slug bait fairy" for a while, tossing it as I danced about in the garden trying not to step on the baby bulbs coming up.
At least they aren't banana slugs - we used to get those in the woodpile and they're so huge... These guys would curl up into little slugballs no bigger than a chickpea. My mom always hit them with salt, but I don't want to accidently salt my plants, and I hate using beer for bait because then you have to empty the container filled with floating slug-bodies. Slug-bait it is!
I had my favorite rubberized gloves on thankfully, so I had to grab and toss slugs for some time, pitching them all into the nearby large and prickly oregon-grape (where I don't care if they eat it or not) and when the rain stopped I got to go out to play the "slug bait fairy" for a while, tossing it as I danced about in the garden trying not to step on the baby bulbs coming up.
At least they aren't banana slugs - we used to get those in the woodpile and they're so huge... These guys would curl up into little slugballs no bigger than a chickpea. My mom always hit them with salt, but I don't want to accidently salt my plants, and I hate using beer for bait because then you have to empty the container filled with floating slug-bodies. Slug-bait it is!