Friday I picked lettuce out of the garden and stored it in the fridge and guess what I found stuck to the inside of the container?! A little pinkish slug. Ick!! Blech!! Yuck!! I washed it down the sink and the proceeded to carefully wash my pre-washed lettuce. I picked a big bowl of lettuce last night to try to thin out my lettuce (planted too close, my fault) and also very carefully washed the new batch. Found one more slug. That went with its little slug-friend to slug heaven down the drain.
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| Um... ick! (Photo: http://www.thegazette.com/) |
It is raining out so I didn't get a picture, but what I did was so simple. I reused a whipped cream container and lid. I cut a hole along the side (approx. 3 inches long), filled it with almost a full beer, Summer Shandy for anyone curious, put the lid on and set it out by the lettuce. I don't know how much rain we are supposed to get so I figured the lid was needed.
I'll re-post about this if it works!
4 comments:
we have the same sluggy problem, always seem to find them in the fridge! We tried the beer thing, but it didn't work for us..nothing went into our beer trap and something took the lids off all of them (very strage!) Hope yours work!
I feel your pain...I had a romaine plant that got infested (and I don't use that term lightly!) with earwigs. Now those things seriously creep me out. Since the plant was started to get crowded out by a zuccini anyway I decided to dig it up and give the earwigs a new home in my compost pile.
I hope the beer saves your plants!
I'm not sure if I can stomach eating more lettuce knowing there could be slugs... make my stomach turn! So here's to hoping the beer works, or the lettuce will also have to find room in the compost pile!
Beer really works - I've drowned many a slug that was after my dahlias. I usually fill a container like a soup can mostly full with beer and bury it so that it is even with the ground. Happy hunting!
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