{"id":8610,"date":"2016-09-13T07:43:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T11:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?p=8610"},"modified":"2016-09-13T07:43:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T11:43:28","slug":"messed-with-the-wrong-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?p=8610","title":{"rendered":"messed with the wrong plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>You know I&#8217;ve had a heck of a time with slugs and snails in my garden. I&#8217;ve got plants up on gravel, on plant stands, hanging from the walls and under protective tarps. Snails still seem to get there. And with only weekends to actually do any gardening a snail can do a bunch of damage long before I&#8217;m around to remove it.<\/p>\n<p>I shouldn&#8217;t have been surprised to find that tiny snails had invaded every pot, including the one with a venus flytrap in it. Big mistake! Each trap now has a tiny snail in it. I&#8217;m not sure they can digest snails, with or without shells but I took some smug satisfaction in seeing that. And I&#8217;m the guy who won&#8217;t kill the snails outright, I put them in my garden waste bin to let them chomp away at dead stuff and help create some future compost. \u00a0Or die in the dark where they can&#8217;t do any harm, I&#8217;m not sure which.<\/p>\n<p>I may have to rig my spare iPhone up and use its time-lapse settings to see what happens. \u00a0But as this is another rainy weekend not much will happen in the garden till later. I&#8217;m going out when the rain lets up to look for adventurous snails but they mostly come at night. Mostly.<\/p>\n<p>Also, my pitcher plant actually got enough rain to have water in its pitchers. Will have to check later for empty shells in there too. I wonder if the sundew is hungry&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s some pics:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8682\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?attachment_id=8682\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3793-rotated.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"240,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3793\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3793-rotated.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8682\" src=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3793.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3793\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8681\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?attachment_id=8681\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3792-rotated.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"240,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3792\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3792-rotated.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8681\" src=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3792.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3792\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8679\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?attachment_id=8679\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3790-rotated.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"240,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3790\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3790-rotated.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8679\" src=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3790.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3790\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8680\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/?attachment_id=8680\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3791-rotated.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"240,320\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"IMG_3791\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3791-rotated.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8680\" src=\"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_3791.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3791\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know I&#8217;ve had a heck of a time with slugs and snails in my garden. I&#8217;ve got plants up on gravel, on plant stands, hanging from the walls and under protective tarps. Snails still seem to get there. And with only weekends to actually do any gardening a snail can do a bunch of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11477],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green","missing-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pDxlf-2eS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8610"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8684,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8610\/revisions\/8684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrharbor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}