Sports day.
Here I am, camcorder in hand ready to record my little princess’s egg and spoon race and ‘throwing bags into a hoop’. I’m taking an iced drink, it’s baking out there.
I’ve had Razib comment on my blog (honoured), I’d do the same but I can’t figure how to work out the comments on his site [...]
Fewer slugs, thank god.
I must have killed most of the damn things the night before. So far I’ve only had about 15 in the traps today. Trap number 4 seems to be by far the most lethal, with 12 in it. It’s got very steep sides. I think I’ll swap numbers 1-3 over to my little glass pots to se if [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mathilda 62, slugs nil.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeew. And then some more eeeeeeeeeew.
I tipped out my slug traps this morning, and I couldn’t believe it. Four traps produced 62 of the little sods, pickled in sweet cider. I have to say, cider works better than beer, but maybe it’s because this was extra strong cider. This is a bit expensive to do [...]
How to murder slugs.
This is war. I’ve finally had it up to here with the damned things. They’ve totally stripped my runner beans and cucumbers, and I have to prepare some weapons.
So, I tried out the beer traps last night, with heart warmingly lethal results. A total of nine dead in just two traps. One trap was suspiciously [...]
