Merry Christmas to all the wonderful gardeners on the hub

Did a night hunt for pests tonight, catching about 60 slugs, some cockroaches, earwigs and a couple of snails. My motivation was to find what was chewing the top of a big cabbage. I expected an animal but it was a very veracious giant slug — now deceased! There was quite a few leopard slugs prowling the yard. I leave these slugs alone as they typically don’t eat fresh vegetation. They prefer decaying matter, rotting meat, and known to hunt down and consume the pesky slugs. Easy to spot as the marking as much like a leopard. Some of the bad slugs were almost as big as this fellow.

Caught him while watering my plants.

After the horror of last night’s news, I took to the one place I find the most solace - the garden. Our gardens are a reminder of the beauty in our world, despite the failure of humans to demonstrate it. We were created to love one another so it is disturbing to see imported warfare on our country soil. Sanity is found in the sounds of the birds, displays of beautiful flowers, the generosity of produce, and happy bees going about life, oblivious to the chaos of man. This is my oasis but also an example of order. We were created to be fruitful and an expression of love. How can we not garden, if only to witnesses how to live more harmoniously.

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