My first offending garden-pest challenge… and I think it is a slug.
This guy is about the size of a corn kernel and after seeing this image, my 5-year-old daughter offered to go right out to the garden with her safety scissors and cut them all in half.
I will retain the services of my mercinary slug-warrior for later… for now, I think I will try the sunken beer trap suggested by this fun blog: http://freshasadaisyveggiegarden.blogspot.com
While I haven’t researched far, I will need to keep my eyes open for an offender called the cabbage worm. It’s a cute little fuzzy green worm, the type that will make my eldest swoon with love (like she did with bag worms one year which led to an escape incident in her bedroom one night after 12 fuzzy bag worms slipped under the netted tent Emma carefully sealed with tape and defected to remote parts of her room, creeping her out for weeks as she found them dried up one-by-one).
She might not mind the beer traps for the slugs (and I say – might) but whatever fate awaits the cabbage worms, if they exist, may trigger drama and pleas for clemency.
Let’s hope the slugs are to blame for the chewing here.
I have seen a number of posts from garden bloggers that are not encouraging. Most say they lost their whole crop. Again, my eldest would have something to say– it would be “Good! I hate broccoli.”
