"Steve Pope" > wrote

> Janet Bostwick > wrote:
>
>>Steve Pope wrote:
>
>>> I hope there are no snails in your location. That's what really
>>> did in my past attempts to grow vegetables in California. (That,
>>> and my aversion to using poisons.)
>
>>sprinkle crushed egg shells around the plants to keep snails away.

> I don't much eat eggs. (Like a half dozen every couple months.)
> And there were literally hundreds of snails approaching the vegetable
> patch every evening. Wouldn't you need a lot of eggshells to
> fend them off?

Diatomaceous Earth accomplishes the same thing, you can
buy that.

nancy