Samantha Stopple

Okay am posting this an hope I am not double posting
because I some how lost my original message.

WHY do you need to kill the slugs?

In California and Washinton too I think (I haven't had
a chance to garden here yet), snails in particular can
be a menace to a young garden. They can devoure over
night young plants. I grew up in Kansas and I never
noticed slugs (never remember seeing any snails)
having any major damage to plants. It could have
something to do with they just don't multiply like
they can here in rain land.

So if I want to garden to have food for my family or
just a little beauty I would rather kill a few snails
then poison the snails and hence the earth and my
garden.

I would also argue that it impossible never to kill
even if someone is a vegetarian/vegan. If you plant a
garden you are removing something that lived there
before maybe it was "just" grass but maybe it was some
native plants too. Maybe some insects live there maybe
some slugs. Death is a part of life.

Keeping that in mind I do not practice all out animal
genocide when attempting to garden. I kept the snail
population in check. I am thankful and mindful when I
am in my snail removal as well as when I garden. I
feel just as thankful for the food aninimal and
vegetable that offers its life so I may live.

Peace,
Samantha








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Julie

We found a powder which dries out the slugs and snails so yes they die, but
it is not poisonous for other wildlife. We don't use it on the whole garden
, just where we don't want the snails, for any food, or things the kids have
grown , or things we are growing from seed, until they get big enough to
survive mising a few leaves, and on my lovely new hosta :-) Other snails get
marked with nail varnish and are tracked. Our garden is not that big, being
an English terraced garden, but it is packed ful of plants. And soon we will
be trying to find more space (we have started on containers) for whatever
we want to try out in the spring. Can't wait!
Peace
Julie