Now then, what are folks' favoured methods for controlling these critters:
The plastic cup. part filled with beer and sunk into the ground always seemed much more humane than salt or metaldehyde (slug pellets) - also less likely to poison other animals (metaldehyde - poisonous to quite a few mammals as well as slugs) of the plants (The Romans used to plow salt into fileds as a punishment of certain peoples as it totally buggers the soil for cultivation purposes). Drowning in beer - I'd choose that every time over chemical dessication or some sort of metabolic poison if faced with execution by one of those methods
And how's your garden of delights coming on?
Quite good. I was planting out some of the foliage me & mrs f&b bought earlier this weekl. Got the hanging baskets etc sorted (but not before one of the cats chomped on a lobelia plant, with sunsequent barf-fest) and a fair few shrubtubs with runner beans - they have nice flowers - geraniums & pansies as well as the wall baskets with nasturtiums and a variety of culinary herbs in those trough type planters - oregano, fennel, rosemary & thyme (I'm sure there's a song in there somewhere

). Going to get more this weekend for the rest of the planers. Even got a large shallow shrubtub sown with opium poppy seeds (if you intend doing this sort of thing, make sure the name
Paperver somniferum appears somewhere on the seed packet as other poppy species don't contain the same interesting alkaloids) as well as the obligatiry 'drugs for cats' corner with a fuck off sized catnip plant. Even trying to grow some coleus for a mass of bonnie colours - you can even use the plant as a drug source (well tried but not very successfully as it requires using a shitload of leaves) as it contains a polyhydric alcohol with effects similar to salvia.
Wish I lived somewhere with conditions suitable for growing khat - my other half told me she saw loads of it used as a hedging plant in the Yemeni area of Tel Aviv - or even coca as it's supposed to be different to cocaine in effect. What I'd really like is a walled off place I could turn into a physick garden, complete with deadly nightshade bush, foxglove & monkshood etc - things far too poisonous to allow access to cats, dogs or small humans who have a faulty self preservation mechanism
Only seen bits of the program, but as it conflicts with something I usually watch. I keep forgetting to even record the episodes