So, I tried to photograph them. They were actually a little easier to photograph than the lettuce, for some reason.
I think my mom was a little irritated that I was happily snapping away, photographing the slugs rather than getting rid of them.
Still need to figure out how to get good pics of the lettuce – they really are very pretty, all in a row, red and green and leafy…
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Omg, those slugs are so adorable. I mean really, with those little motile antenae? Metaphors for a 70s child's damaged snese of belonging in the world due to psychedelic fungus? And they're so expressive! Well done, Maestro, for showing us the prosaic garden world in a new light.
okay, it's hard not to feel like you might be being just a LITTLE sarcastic here.
Though, possibly not totally sarcastic. Just a little...
Before we lived in Maine I had neutral feelings about slugs. Now I hate them. There are THOUSANDS of them around here. Don't ride your bike right after a rain or you risk going down on the tarmac where a car has just squashed a clump of a dozen slugs. (This is no joke - very nearly happened to me.) But by far the worst problem is in the garden. They eat everything just as it's trying to emerge and get established. Lupines? You thought they were hardy, didn't you? Well, they don't have a chance in our yard. Hostas? Ditto. Toad lilies? Coreopsis? All slug bait. It cracks me up to read these articles about controlling slugs with tuna cans filled with beer. We tried that for a few weeks and were spending more on beer for the slugs than on wine for ourselves. We needed a couple of dozen tuna cans, and they all needed to be emptied and refilled EVERY DAY because of so many slugs. Yuck! Now ask me how I REALLY feel about slugs.
Next week, deer.
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