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Miche[_3_]

In article >,
enigma > wrote:

> (Steve Pope) wrote in
> :
>
> > 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

We have native carnivorous snails, but they don't live in our area, nor
do they eat other snails (dammit). Some of them are the size of an
adult's palm!

Miche

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