Slugs, Slugs and More Slugs, All in My Garden.

Here in Maine it has rained almost every day of the month of June and the slugs are devouring plants in gardens across the state including my own! What do you do? Well that’s easy, what any good Mainer would do, offer them a drink. Like many of us human’s slugs love beer! So how do you serve a slug beer? That’s easy, gather up a few empty tuna cans without the tops on them and put them in the dirt near your plants. Make the top of the rim flush with the ground. It wouldn’t be nice to make it difficult to for our little friends to get their drink would it? Now fill the cans with beer.

Slugs are a bit slow, and maybe a bit shy about drinking in front of strangers so leave them there for the night and check in on them in the morning. You will be surprised to see how many of them were thirsty. More importantly, that fact almost all slugs enjoy a good private Beer Fest. The great thing about this for you and me is slugs cannot hold their liquor, and if their drinking they are not eating our plants. Actually, you will see they are quit sociable amongst themselves and actually drink themselves to death. This is bad for the poor little slug, but very good news for the plants!

So share a little beer with your slugs, PBR or a Bud is fine! No sense in wasting a good Carrabbassett or a Shipyard on these little guys, their taste buds are not that refined! Just think this is one garden party your neighbors won’t complain about you have!

So the moral to this story is being kind to all others it pays off in the long run.