I am having an awful time this summer with my impatiens in the front yard. First I thought it was a woodchuck eating the blooms. Someone told me to put mothballs around the plants. I haven't seen the woodchuck in over a week but then something started eating the stems.
Last night I was talking with Rita, one of my cousins from down South. She asked me if it could be slugs. As a matter of fact, yesterday I did see a couple of them when I was pulling weeds. She told me if I put small containers of beer around the plants that the slugs would go for that and die once they got to the beer. . . yes, I laughed too!
The only thing I had to put the beer in was disposable plastic cups. So I cut the bottoms off three cups high enough up to hold about a half inch of beer. This morning I have two dead slugs in the beer containers!!!
Well, let's see. . . Rita, you've got a pretty good track record. The grits on ant hills was a swift killer! The moth balls seem to have detracted the woodchuck. And now I have two slugs to dispose of!
Sauteed Shrimp
2 hours ago
Hi Sherry!
ReplyDeleteOooooh Escargot at your house tonight!!!! :))))
Years ago I put a little funny on my flowers page about slugs:
http://www.evensens.us/flowers/slugfest.html
It explains the beer things, too.
Impatiens are a tropical plant and only survive up here in the Midwest/Northern States with rain forest conditions. In San Juan up in the rain forest I remember seeing impatiens growing more than six feet tall along side the road.
Big hugs,
Lois
LOL! I just read your post from the link you gave above! Eeeww! I wouldn't want a bowl back in my kitchen that a slimy slug had touched! I know, I know. . . I have a dishwasher, with a sanitizer setting, but still!
ReplyDeleteOh, and since I'm not a beer drinker, but keep it on hand for guests, I'm not at all concerned about wasting "good beer" on slugs!!!