Re: Startling statistic

**"Suzanne Pierot" s*@hvi.net**

Could I use a dilute solution of iron phosphate?  If so, does anyone know
what the solution would be?   I've got over 20,000 hostas and I admit I do
use the Ortho product, but would love to have another solution that was less
expensive.  Don't suggest beer, or even yeast.  With that number of hostas I
need something I can  easily put down in the early spring in QUANTITY
without breaking the bank.
Suzanne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Campbell" <dcamp911@juno.com>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Startling statistic


>
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:54:39 +0000 "Nancy Szerlag"
> <szerlag@earthlink.net> writes:
>
> > Case in point, Sluggo, also sold by Schultz under the name Slug and
> > Snail
> > Bait. This environmentally friendly slug bait has been on the market
> > for
> > several years and is readily available.
>
> Not only that, but I am told it is pretty effective. So I decided to try
> some. Went to a garden store and found a bottle for about twelve bucks.
> Read the label, which told me that it was a one percent solution of iron
> phosphate. Now, iron phosphate is not a particularly exotic chemical
> compound, sorta akin to rust. And the thought of paying twelve bucks for
> a one percent solution stuck in my craw. I don't use the term "rip off"
> very often, but $12.00 for a bottle of weak rusty water certainly tempts
> me to.
>
> So I still don't know whether it works. If I'm gonna pay twelve bucks for
> a pesticide, I want the active ingredient to have at least ten syllables.
>
> D
>
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