Re: Cedar & Cocoa Bean Mulches

**K* M* <k*@iol.ie>**

>

Cocoa mulch killed my collie

On the cedar front - it isn't available here but the most commonly  
available bark mulch is pine which I've found slows up slugs when it  
is fairly new, though they rapidly colonise it as it breaks down. And  
since that segment of the microherd that eats bark mulch increases  
over time if you use it regularly it breaks down much more quickly  
when you've been using it for a few years. My microherd can get  
through two inches of bark mulch in three months in a wet summer.

kathryn
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