Ian M.
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Yep, that's not a typographical error - I did, indeed, say slugs and beer in the same title!!
Boy oh boy!! You learn something new just about every day but this was a real awakening for me!! I got a nice letter yesterday from an elderly aunt of mine who lives in Florida and is an avid gardener. She went on to tell me that she's had a serious problem with slugs and things charging into her broccoli beds and destroying her crop until she read somewhere that slugs and caterpillars love beer. She now puts shallow pie tins of beer throughout her garden beds and during the nights the slugs and their pals crawl into those pans of beer and drown in them. Goodbye slugs!! A nifty idea and a horrible waste of perfectly good beer but if it does the trick, why not? Anyone else ever heard about this method before? After reading that letter, I may never look at a bottle of beer quite the same way again.................
Ian M.
Boy oh boy!! You learn something new just about every day but this was a real awakening for me!! I got a nice letter yesterday from an elderly aunt of mine who lives in Florida and is an avid gardener. She went on to tell me that she's had a serious problem with slugs and things charging into her broccoli beds and destroying her crop until she read somewhere that slugs and caterpillars love beer. She now puts shallow pie tins of beer throughout her garden beds and during the nights the slugs and their pals crawl into those pans of beer and drown in them. Goodbye slugs!! A nifty idea and a horrible waste of perfectly good beer but if it does the trick, why not? Anyone else ever heard about this method before? After reading that letter, I may never look at a bottle of beer quite the same way again.................
Ian M.