Slugs everywhere. Spanish slugs, leopard slugs, small brown, stripey grey and luminescent white slugs have plagued our Pyrenees garden since the very first season trying to feed ourselves from our denuded patch of clay subsoil. I resisted the temptation to use slug pellets, stopped sowing seeds direct into the ground and began spring and summer nightly
Slug Hunting patrols.
Last year I counted the number collected just from the potager and was staggered to find it was over fourteen thousand of the slimy munchers. But this year, things felt different; evening slugs patrols were often in the company of hedgehogs and almost every time I put fork or trowel to soil I would uncover glow worm larvae. It was
magical..
