Sunday, May 18, 2014

The maw of a slug is voracious.
Its attack on your garden, audacious!
But those muculent goons
Can be turned into prunes
With a dirt that is diatomaceous.

Based on the suggestion: “diatomaceous”

One website said that the sharp-edged diatoms slice up the slugs' bodies, causing them to die. Another said that the fine powder absorbs the slugs' liquids, causing them to dehydrate. Either way, the cool thing about diatomaceous earth is that it contains fossilized diatoms: microscopic, silica-shelled phytoplankton like those below.


[photo credit: Wikipedia]

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