The Southams

Oh Slugs!

We have had a lot of problems with little vermin and bad weather this year.  Our berries and cherries were all destroyed buy slugs, sow bugs, and birds. And the cool weather has stunted the growth of almost everything including our Asian pear tree which after having about 200 pears on it last year only has about 20-30 on it this year.  It hasn’t been a good year for our garden it’s kind of sad hopefully next year will be better!

We found this bucket of 54 slugs in our pea patch (there were 64 total)  but fortunately slugs don’t do much damage to the peas. The kids were wondering what we should do with them and I told them we were going to send them back to their maker.  Tanner said “was that the devil?!”  So after disposing of them we did end up with a LOT of peas and it took me one entire afternoon to shell that big ol’ pile. Did I mention I HATE PEAS?? But the kids and Cameron love them so it’s a sacrifice I don’t mind at all.

 

This picture doesn’t do the pile justice it was a lot of peas.