Author: Sarah Potter Writes
Sarah is a British eccentric who writes offbeat fiction, haiku and tanka poetry. When stuck for words, she sketches or paints instead. She's into nature conservation, sustainability, gardening, dogs, natural health, and reading. Her sociability is something that happens in short bursts with long breathing spaces in between. View all posts by Sarah Potter Writes
Sarah Potter Writes 
Don’t get me started. Our garden has been plagued by marauding molluscs this summer and despite rearing frogs in a pond, beer, my wife standing outside yelling ‘GO AWAY YOU NAUGHTY MOLLUSCS!’, picking off the little buggers by hand and so on and so forth, they just laugh at us and bring their friends to gorge on our pea plants etc. We have finally FINALLY had to resort to slug pellets, and it’s a right bugger sitting outside all night with slug pellets and a pea-shooter waiting for the molluscs to emerge, I can tell you. They might not be very big, but YOU try to dislodge them with a projectile weapon from a distance in complete darkness.
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Have you tried beer traps? Of course, that might not work with your dogs around as they might get drunk! But we’ve used beer traps at our allotment with great success. Just put a long, slim jar in the ground, its top level with the soil’s surface and pour some cheap beer into it. You’ll find the next morning that there are about a dozen or more slugs or snails floating in it. Works a treat.
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Been there, done that. Our molluscs have signed the Pledge.
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Perhaps you should leave lemonade or orange juice for them instead!
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Oh, horrors! I’m not fond of these critters at all. 😦
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I think they’re better looking than slugs, but I just wish they’d take their voracious appetites somewhere else!
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Well as for the good looks, I suppose it’s all relative. 😀
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destructive little buggers!
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One day, I saw about fifty of them marching across our lawn, like some kind of army!
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fantastic macro!! hmm! snails in beer!! Do you fry them up afterward?
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Yuck 😀
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