{"id":120814,"date":"2021-07-18T12:15:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T05:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/slugs-and-snails-are-helping-themselves\/"},"modified":"2021-07-18T17:05:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T10:05:10","slug":"slugs-and-snails-are-helping-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/slugs-and-snails-are-helping-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Slugs and snails are helping themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWhy won\u2019t they share? They are eating my peas and beans aliveThe rain has brought out the predators. Snails beheading the tagetes. Why do they particularly love them so much? And why won\u2019t they share?The beans and peas, too, decapitated. Eaten alive. Slugs lying in wait in damp, dark places, like at secondary school. The brute bullies of the gardening world. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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