my seedlings, leaving little but their telltale gloopy trails behind as evidence. I grew up in a garden doused with the blue sprinkles of slug pellets, but I refuse to use pesticides, which poison not only the slugs, but also the birds and rapidly disappearing hedgehogs that eat them, so one has to be a little more inventive.How to tackle slugs without pesticidal annihilation?
An organic-grower friend starts her bedtime routine by heading out to the vegetable patch with a head torch and secateurs, snipping those she finds (they have no central nervous system, so feel no pain) and leaving the remnants on the ground for breakfasting birds.
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