Just the usual ginormous suspects here.

Rat lungworm?? Good grief, what is that!!

I read the Honolulu Advertiser article about the rat lungworm few months ago and this is why I rarely use fresh greens in my garden. I throughly wash and usually quickly blanch them, like the okinawan spinach, potato leaves, mizuni cabbage, portuguese cabbage, etc. The only greens I eat in the garden without blanching them is the green onions--this I make sure I wash it good.

opps...wrong newspaper and article. I meant this Star-Bulletin article.

wow, thanks for the link, i hadn't seen the article before. Usually i give any green thing a soak in water with vinegar/salt added, hope that's sufficient.

so how did you control the slugs? I hate them!!!