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I'm trying or grow Atlantic giants for the first time. Early on in the season when I transplanted outside, slugs promptly and completely destroyed 3 of the six plants in single sessions. One was missing they ate so much, another the slug was so fat it had snapped the plant in half from the weight of it, the third was just a stem all leaves eaten. This is despite putting a decent ring of used coffee grinds around each of them (that advice didn't seem to do much). Fast forward many months with only a few random leaves eaten and the fruit is starting to drop. Of my only three remaining plants though, everytime a flower blooms, it's shredded and eaten practically overnight, but they seemed to be leaving the fruit alone... Seemed past tense. I had not actually seen it first hand before, but I noticed a random fruit that was one of the healthier ones almost look like it had been gnawed at. The way one would eat corn or Peel an apple. Gnawing at the outside working their way in.

7/9/2020 7:02:20 PM