Having the family for dinner

Slugs and snails are my perennial enemies, usually leaving trails of slime everywhere, or much worse, eating my crops, often destroying young tender plants almost before they pop out of the soil. Infanticide! So I applied salt to slugs and for snails ‘le crunch’ underfoot.

But this year, the mantra seems to be that they’re good guys, both the pretty snails and the ugly slugs. Give them a break; they’re important in nature’s mix.

But I’ve recently noticed ‘crunched’ snails being devoured by gangs of slimethirsty slugs!

That’s tantamount to cannibalism. Not nice! Not nice at all! Where’s the salt!