Rough cut

Now this might seem indelicate
To some, indeed, revolting
But I’ve never known a slimy slug
Recover from a salting.

Some folk say it’s cruel
Others say a crime
But I say it’s effective
Dissolving them to slime.

But last week in our garden
I watched the beasts attack
Our hostas and delphiniums
Time I must fight back.

I struck upon a strategy
As salting was too easy
And rendered soil more acidy
(And made my wife quite queasy!)

With secateurs aready
To war! Lead on Macduff!
Well equipped, I snipped and snipped
While the slugs they cut up rough.