Permaculture - Nature Based Gardening

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Comment by Rob on August 4, 2009 at 9:37am

Ducks,
You can use a small kiddie pool to make a a little habitat if you don't have any water at your place.
Here's another link
http://www.weichtiere.at/Mollusks/Schnecken/garten.html
I hate picking the slugs off by hand and getting that orange slime all over my fingers. It doesn't come off easy.

Comment by Mike on August 1, 2009 at 11:59pm

Slugs! So many slugs, and the beer in the bowl trick is getting a little costly. A good friend recently shared that the pulled "weeds" left around the garden's edge not only lure the slugs away from your tast greens, but can then be gathered and fed to the chickens! Any other slug strategies out there!

Comment by Spirit Dancing on June 21, 2009 at 10:28am

I do the same with lamb's quarters - always a free crop whenever the ground is disturbed. Let 'em grow, and I eat great, iron-laden greens all summer, raw or steamed. They don't have as much bitter as the dandelions do! A good top=down picture here:

Comment by Feralhuman on April 26, 2009 at 5:50pm

Just enjoyed a feast of dandelion greens harvested from one of my biointensive beds. I let those weeds grow in spots where they weren't directly interfering with other crops and this spring got a nice feast as I was clearing a bed to plant onion sets. Dug them up and stuck the roots in wine to macerate for 2 weeks. Cooked greens for the folks with less than wild appetites and steamed greens for those of us with wild appetites. I like the bitter flavor of the steamed ones. Very nice to have a free crop that I didn't have to plant or tend.