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Rant: The day my entire zucchini harvest got devoured overnight
I went out to my patch in Portland last Tuesday morning and found every single leaf and young fruit on my three zucchini plants completely gone, with just a few slimy trails left behind. My neighbor said it was probably a huge group of slugs that came through with the heavy dew, which I'd never seen happen so fast before. Has anyone else had a whole crop vanish like this and found a good way to stop it from happening again?
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the_sage2mo ago
Ugh, slugs are the worst... try the beer thing, it actually works.
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patriciah512mo ago
That sounds so awful, just heartbreaking to put in all that work. Slugs can be total monsters here in the northwest. Did you happen to check under any nearby boards or big leaves right around the plants? Sometimes you find the whole gang hiding out there during the day, which tells you where to focus.
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