damage control

Even though the rain is encouraging slugs, I think I've finally halted most of the damage on my new Green Bean plants. I was happy that almost every seed I planted (which I saved myself from last year's plants) came up, but they all got chewed quickly by slugs.

Between covering the plants with cloches at night, spreading rough coffee grounds around the base of them, and hand-picking what slugs I find, the damage seems to have slowed down a lot. At least, the new leaves coming on are hardly touched now at all, so I'm hopeful they'll continue to grow and give us beans soon, without much trouble. (We ate the end of last year's frozen green beans just a few weeks ago).