"You don't have a snail problem. You have a duck deficiency". That was Bill Mollison's reply to a gardener struggling with gastropods. I am a bird watcher. I keep a supply of birdseed around my deck, and there is always a good show provided. I even enjoy the thieving squirrels who don't seem to know these seeds are for the birds. I was thinking about how close my bird feeder is to the Kitchen Garden, and I recalled the above passage. When spring began last year, the Kitchen Garden where... Continue reading