You can see slugs having sex in my garden here but it was a short event. I took them outside and stepped on them. Ouch.

So I’m in the greenhouse this morning looking at my plants and of course admiring them and smiling and then I see two slugs curled up together. On a leaf. A broccoli leaf. So of course I run for my camera and here is the evidence of slugs at work: mating.

Although slugs are both males and females AT THE SAME TIME it doesn’t hurt to mix up the genetics a bit so they often get together and co-join. Every slug has a male part – doesn’t seem right to call this male organ by its animal name but I guess that’s what it is? Well- if I hadn’t been so frantic to document it I would have set up a little time lapse for you. But of course I don’t want to encourage this kind of behavior in the garden or leave any opportunity for the nice shiny white eggs to be laid in the soil afterwards. So these ones got their photo taken and then they got the boot. Literally.

If you have slugs and want a cure try mixing of seven parts water to one part Ammonia. That is a 7:1 mix of H20 and NH4. Spray at night or very early morning for best effect.