Snail slug and bird poo on veg?

[Florence Fennel]

There's only one thing worse than finding a caterpillar in a plum when you eat it and that's finding half a caterpillar!

[PyreneesPlot]

I have big pots of basil by the kitchen door and try not to think about the slugs sliming over them all night when picking leaves to go on the tomato salad...
I wash stuff from the shops more carefully (in water) than the stuff from the garden. Better the devil you know?