It's the start of a new year and we are getting back to the plot after a couple of months where we were too busy to do anything with it. We still have winter veg to harvest, including spuds, kale, and turnips, but quite a few of our plants show signs of slug damage. Snails hibernate over the winter, but slugs keep munching all year round. We try to avoid using slug pellets because we want to encourage birds to our plot, so there is nothing for it but to pick them off by hand and squish them, gently rake and hoe the soil to expose them to birds, and to destroy any eggs we find.
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