I know this is autumn, but before you know it's spring will be here, and serious

gardeners are already planning what they're going to plant next year.

Serious gardeners like Aaron Davis.

I grow green beans, I grow potatoes, I grow tomatoes, I grow corn, I grow beets, I grow turnips

for my husband's grandmother.

She loves my turnip gardens. I grow herbs. Wow go, girl. Wow. Onions. I'm impressed. I'm very impressed. Erin was with a group of friends talking about gardening. Friends like Carolyn McCulley. I do container gardening. By this, I mean, I buy one new container every year. Put it out. And when I used to, where I used to live in Maryland, I would have it out. And I felt like I was running a deer salad bar. And they always knew exactly when I was going to have dinner guests over and they'd munch everything straight down. I'd be like, these are my pathetic little pots. And Karen Luritz. When I moved from big concrete jungle of Philadelphia down to Georgia, and we had all this green stuff.

I had my husband plop me up a little patch.

They only last one season.

It was just too much work and had too many nasty things.

Mary Cassian likes to garden, but in Canada, where she lives, she's been struggling with a certain kind of pest.

This was a bad year for slugs.

They kind of sneak up, but you often see their trails.

Oh, right.

We don't have slugs.

We have Japanese beetles.

I live in Missouri.

And the rule of thumb in Missouri is if you see one Japanese beetle, 10,000 of his little

friends are already this.

They can turn your crops to lace in one day.

Every pest usually has some contribution to the ecosystem, but I've yet to figure it out about

slugs.

I mean, what is their benefits?

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