If you grow rhubarb for the tasty stalks, don’t toss the potentially poisonous, inedible leaves on the compost heap. Use them as organic slug traps instead!
Rhubarb leaves are quite large, sometimes as much as a foot across, and all it takes to attract slugs is to lay the leaves on the ground where the slimy critters are likely to roam. They’ll get underneath the leaves during the day to shelter against the heat and sunlight — and then it’s a simple matter of gathering them up and getting rid of them, whether that means relocating them to the nearest patch of woods or taking more permanent steps.
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