Who's been at my peppers and strawberries??

Having got rid of blackfly and greenfly my plants were looking lovely and
healthy again. I have had my first batch of strawberries and my pepper plants were bearing baby fruits... Life was great...

But then!! I started to notice that an increasing number of my plants have irregular holes in their leaves and that there were slime trails on the soil and the leaves. The baby peppers have disappeared and half of the new strawberries batch were eaten, especially the ripe ones. I decided to keep an eye on the garden and then one night, there it was, lurking in the dark, perching on one of my lovely little pepper plants stripping it down and eating it to oblivion... It was a mighty ol' slug... Yuk!!

I quickly removed it. It was massive!! and then ran back inside to scour the net on how on earth do I stop these little suckers from finishing off my vegetable patch.

I read the coolest thing ever: that humans have a new weapon in the eternal battle against slugs and snails - the double espresso. Apparently, slugs and snails hate caffeine, researchers have discovered and soon enough the chemical could become an environmentally acceptable pesticide.

I quickly disolved 3 tablespoons of instant coffee (that I don't like) in a jug of warm water and poured it around the most affected plants, mainly the strawberries, the peppers, the mints and some of the flowers, repeated that a couple of times (this time I poured it everywhere) and now I can actually say that I haven't seen any new unusual holes in my plants!! Yippeee My pepper plants are actually shooting again and I'm now waiting for a new batch of strawberries to ripen. I don't think I'll be eating any homegrown peppers this season but I feel great that I managed to salvage my crops :)