An update on the slug situation

It seems that the slugs are retreating. Over the last few days there haven’t been as many slugs in the beer traps and all the other ones we find seem to be dead. We deduct from this, that our triple play strategy is working out for us. Beer traps, jars of...

Welcome to the Killing Fields – handpicking slugs

Today we tackled the slug situation in our yard again. We are getting started with planting and building the greenhouse and there is no room for the slimy mess that has been stealing our tender little salad plants. When we went into the garden today, all I could say...

Time to call back up (aka more pests)

It’s official, we have mice in our outbuildings. When we moved in, there where plenty of trays of rat poison standing in the various outbuildings of the farm, which we promptly removed as we didn’t want the dog to eat it. We never found much evidence of an...

Houston we have a slug problem!

Well, the slugs have had a great time on our lettuce once again. Quite a few of them took advantage of the open bar but it seems that there are just far too many to prevent some of them from going for the lettuce instead. We’ve pretty much lost all the plants...

Spiders, slugs and catnip

While I was waiting for the container to arrive today, I was doing various little tasks like cleaning up the house and any other small stuff that didn’t require that I be outside of hearing range of the front door. I went in the garden to check on the lettuce...