When trying to overcome the slug onslaught in my garden last year – or rather: when trying to come to terms with the slug onslaught in my garden last year, because it is very difficult to stop the hungry buggers – I more or less tried to answer the question ‘what would a permaculturist do?’,

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There’s a slug in my garden, or more likely, lots of them, eating my dahlia. Holes in every leaf, slimy tracks along the stem and not one single flower. I have this one single bulb, that I desperately want to grow into a bouquet of pompoms, but all my attempts and TLC are thwarted by

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