Slugfest

[primsong]

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!

Comments

[my-cocoon.livejournal.com]

LOL
I have a local Racoon and she comes by and feasts on the slugs in my beer traps. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I think our raccoon is too well-fed on neighborhood catfood or something, it postively waddles. Too lazy to eat slugs. I wish I could keep a chicken, I know they *love* those little goodies.

[iorhael94.livejournal.com]

ewwwww...

Love your icon! ;)

[estellye.livejournal.com]

We have an artist in town who sells very realistic wooden banana slugs to hang over the edge of your desk or sit on your computer or on a plant pot. I thought they were hilarious, but some people who see them think I am completely out of my mind. It's not like I have a live one as a pet, lol.

Good luck keeping the live ones out of your garden, it sounds like they are having a good season this year!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

When we were married we had little wooden slugs hanging over the edge of the iced tea punch-bowl, seeing as we lived in the Pacific NW. The other bowl was green-colored punch with ducks floating in it - that one was eventually used up but almost no one would touch the tea, LOL!

[estellye.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Fun! I'd have drunk the tea ;)

You would have liked our wedding cake. We were married at an old dairy farm where the barn was converted into a reception hall. Our cake looked like a pile of terracotta plant pots with "dirt" and live flowers in the top one. We were standing right beside it when one of my bridesmaids asked where the cake was, lol.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I love it! If I have some sort of big to-do again, it would be good fun to have something like that.

[kimbys-place.livejournal.com]

EWWWWWWWWWWW...

(wanders off while "Dance of the Slug-Bait Fairy" pounds through my consciousness)

[lin4gondor.livejournal.com]

We used to get these huge slugs during the monsoon season in the Himalayas of Pakistan. They were about the size of banana slugs and quite disgusting! They'd be all over the place and it was quite a trick not to step on them sometimes. I remember when my son was young, he used come in from playing with them -- eeeeeeewwwwwwww! -- and the slime was impossible to get off his hands.

Rubberized gloves would have come in handy for the lad, methinks!

:-D