Enemy of the North Korean state Alan Titchmarsh has launched a bonkers tirade against the humble slug.
The denim-wearing digger says he will never be pals with the garden slimesters following the Daily Star’s Hug A Slug campaign. Housewives’ favourite Al, whose jeans were blurred out by Kim Jong-un’s state telly recently for being offensive, said he’s happy to mouth off about the critters which he branded “pests”.
The garden guru said: “Slugs are never going to be my friends, whatever anybody says.” His words are at odds with the Royal Horticultural Society which two years ago reclassified slugs and snails as ‘garden visitors’ rather than ‘pests’ to help shed their negative image.
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Its new campaign with the Wildlife Trusts aims to encourage people to appreciate the cuties for their positive impact in the garden. But Alan hit back: “If you’ve got a hosta collection, the last thing you want to do is to make a home for slugs.
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“You’ve got to allow for a little bit of nibbling and you want to be a good cultivator of plants that can shrug off a bit of an attack. But that’s a far cry from saying, ‘Oh, we love slugs, let’s welcome them into the garden’. I’m sorry, I don’t welcome slugs.”
King Charles also agrees with the green-fingered expert. The celeb gardener, 74, previously complained that slugs are a “pain in the bum’’ and revealed how the monarch backs him up.
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They frequently meet up to grumble about the slimy idlers. Alan, who is a vice president of the RHS, said: “The King I see quite regularly – we talk, moan about slugs together. Don’t try and tell people that slugs are our friends and not a grand old inconvenience.”
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