Who would have known that they very thing I planted to chase away one pesky garden pest would actually attract another. When I went out to hang laundry on the line yesterday morning, I noticed that my marigolds were dying. Then I saw it, the telltale trail of slime and then the enemy himself: Dr. Slime. Yes, slugs, the bane of every gardener and the enduring symbol of the Pacific Northwest, were eating all my marigolds! Arggggggg!
While I have read all kinds of "home rememdies" for ridding your garden of slugs (beer, ammonia, salt, sandpaper, egg shells, chalk) it was time to bring out the big guns: Corry's Slug & Snail Death!
I have to say it was very satisfying this morning to go out and find four VERY DEAD slugs in the flowerbed! Take that, Dr Slime!
How does the egg shell thing work?
ReplyDeleteI usually just end up tossing them in the bucket when I'm weeding. I figure they can live the rest of their little sluggy lives happily at the dump.
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