Slugfest
Let me take you to the western extremity of The Pudding Estate. There, amongst other things, you will find a green plastic water butt and four of our compost bins. All very ordinary and unremarkable you might think... Yes, ordinary and unremarkable until you remove the lids. Let us peer inside the water butt where approximately thirty five garden slugs reside. I have no idea how they got in there for the lid is tightly sealed and I don't know what they have been feeding on but they have created their own slug community where unmentionable things no doubt happen. It is my own Mar-a-Lago:- I don't even know for sure what species of slug this is in spite of googling. Perhaps it is a previously undiscovered species that I shall name after Jacob Rees-Mogg, the outgoing Conservative MP for North Somerset. And I also don't know if this particular slug brings benefits to gardening and compost production. It is probably a kind of yellow slug - Limacus flavus . Let me r...