For a while my garden is full of slugs, but it was never a problem until this year since I started growing leafy vegetables.
Little broccolis and radishes struggle to grow while slugs catering on their baby leaves for a while, which they eventually prevail and start to looks like what they should be.
Kiwi is suffering from some bites, but it is a big enough plant that is still keep growing like nothing happens.
On the other hand, Radishes called a tie on some loses but about 50% of them still manage to grow some leaves.
For a long time, my rule was the survivor is the fitter, and let the garden be whatever, but it changed this week.
My little pepper plant just reached 5 inches tall, and it was full of leaves. It was about the right time for it to go outside to see what world and what it has to offer. However, the next day after the transplant, baby started to lose leaves. Since it was growing quite fast, I decide to keep an eye on it instead of doing something right away.
I was planning to use coffee ground to repel the slugs. Since it is a vegetable garden, I can’t use anything that is harmful for human. There are a lot of berries is getting ready, so I want to use something that is friendly to pollinator as well. Coffee ground is a good option.
The situation doesn’t seem to improve. The next day, I went out to get some coffee ground, and going to spread it around my plants to create a ring to block those little devils. Only to find out, the slugs had got my pepper plant over night. Where it used to be a pepper plant, now it is just a stick!
I am starting a project to make sure my planter box borders will be covered by coffee ground, and we will see how that goes.
Pohsuan Wu 