Superheroes To The Rescue

There are villains lurking in every garden.  Luckily, there are even more superheroes including you and me!

The sweet bunny, so cute and cuddly can eat up all your lettuce.  The beautiful white butterflies you see gracefully fluttering through the sky will lay their eggs on your broccoli and cabbage plants and when they hatch will feed on the leaves.  The mice that scurry around at dusk will hoard some of the harvest for themselves.  These animals all have a place in the World, we just try to keep these villains out of the garden.  We can do this by encouraging other animals into the garden for a meal.  Animals like frogs, beetles, and birds. 

 Slugs just may be the biggest (or smallest) villain of all in the garden.  Slugs love the baby plants and will come out each night to grab a snack.  We tested different ways to deter slugs from eating our plants.  Copper pennies (pre-1984), eggshells, and copper tape were used in our experiment.  I don't think the pennies worked so well...

Copper is suppose to give the slugs a slight electric shock probably similar to when you slide down a plastic slide in summer.  This slug didn't seem to mind at all.  The eggshells are suppose to deter slugs by poking the slugs gelatinous body.  The slugs climbed in between the broken shells.  Maybe we could just be buddies like in the story we read My Buddy Slug.  The garden is really growing and lots of lettuce and spinach are ready for harvest!! 

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