Diary of a Slug-hunter

"The gardener has declared war, Swaddie."
"I could tell you were off colour, General Arion, sir. You are not your usual glistening, black self."

Should a gardener get rid of the slugs in her garden? Should she tolerate this pest? What do slugs think of a certain gardener's methods of slug control?

In Diary of a Slug Hunter a gardener, as she struggles to make her garden a place of beauty, falls into conversation with the slugs which live there and finds out. They have extraordinary appetites, these slugs, and extraordinary opinions. Slug pellets are emphatically not the solution. The gastropods assert their right to existence and abhor the notion that they are pests. They assert that good husbandry is the way forward.

Slug on primula