I Think My Slugs and Snails Used to Work for NASA

I seem to have very intelligent Slugs and Snails. I covered all my Brassicas with Butterfly nets. No I did not make frames to put the nets over I simply laid the nets over the newly planted plants leaving enough loose netting over their tops to allow for the plants to grow. What I didn’t allow for was my community of Slugs and Snail treating the nets as an Army assault course and climbing over them. These little devils are super intelligent and as I said in my title above had possibly previously worked for NASA as guidance system engineers or something. What they are doing is ignoring the slug pellets I put around the base of the plants but climbing the nets and eating the leaves from above through the netting. How cleaver is that I asked myself! When they have finished gorging themselves on my Brassica they probably abseil back down the nets to make their escape. Next year I will invest in frames to put the nets over. I’d like to see these super molluscs trying again oh yes so I would! Three things I hope would be achieved. 1) They would not be able to eat my prized plants because the nets would be well clear of the leaves 2) By the time they got to the top of the frame work they would be so knackered they would not have the energy to eat anything and 3) they would probably all be suffering from Vertigo!!


Don’t you just love Slugs and Snails? Not!