We had a deal! I promised not to drown, salt, snip or splat in return for healthy un-munched produce. To my dismay at the weekend I noticed that the lettuce which had been safely perched off the ground on top of a plant pot, now had many more holes in it. True, the lettuces were not in the best state to start with, but they hadn’t been half eaten that’s for sure.

This is what I found!

‘How could you?!’ I cried

No response from the slug

‘Grrr’.
I ran into the house and grabbed the camera to collect photographic evidence. Still in a state of mild anger I then proceeded to prod them with the stick (known affectionately as the slug-o-pult) until they let go.

(By the way that huge hole in the slug wasn’t me – I think it’s a breathing hole or something.)

Anyway, we then had words about our deal.

So, although I was a little, ok well very unhappy, I did decide not to kill them but to ‘eject’ them from the garden using my slug-o-pult. It’s very easy to use, coax one slug onto the end of a stick, let it take hold, then draw back the arm and release with force.

I have to report that out of the two slugs that I managed to coax onto the slug-o-pult, only one actually made it over the fence to freedom, the other one made it to the fence and is currently still at large.

That aside I did feel bad for a split second as I heard the thud on the fence panel and I murmured ‘oops’, but it shouldn’t have munched my lettuce!

..…poor thing…sorry.