I try to avoid using chemicals on the garden, but the only time I’m ever tempted is when slugs and snails invade, eat my lettuce and leave slime trails on everything else. But those blue slug pellets can’t be good, right? Anything blue has to be suspect (even blueberries are on the purple side).

My mum liked this cartoon and emailed me to say “Pa has inadvertently  found that the Oatly containers work as a slug trap! caught 3 in one container = trinity!” I’ll have to email her back and ask what an Oatly container is…

 

click to see bigger slugs