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(Steve Pope) wrote in
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> 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?

ok, if you don't like egg shells... diatomaceous earth. beer
traps (the only use for Budweiser). copper tape around raised
beds. iron phospate (brand name Slug-go). if legal in your
area, carnivorous snails
there are lots of non-lethal-chemical methods of dealing with
slugs & snails. carefully cleaning up daytime hiding places
(rocks, sticks, bark mulch, etc) helps a lot.
lee
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