Re: slugs
- Subject: Re: slugs
- From: R* L*
- Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 18:03:49 -0500
Good thinking, using some pH paper and some household products along with a
few slugs; it should be easy to find out.
Ron
----- Original Message -----
From: Gregory & Carla Miller <hostas@HOSTAS.COM>
To: <hosta-open@mallorn.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 5:52 PM
Subject: RE: slugs
> Does anyone know of a certain pH range that may help to reduce slug
> activity?
>
> Thanks, Gregory
>
> Gregory & Carla Miller
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hosta-open@mallorn.com
> [o*@mallorn.com]On Behalf Of Hank Zumach
> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 1:43 PM
> To: hosta-open@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: slugs
>
>
> HI Jim--Your post brings to mind several questions I have had about slug
> behavior. As an example, I have wondered how far slugs will travel to
get
> to a food source. Also, once they have found an acceptable food source
(an
> individual hosta, say) will they leave that plant and travel to get to
> baited poison? How far away can the bait be placed? If they will not
> travel more than 2-3 feet, that would affect where the bait should be
> placed. It seems to me that slugs have not moved from a plant to get to
> bait applied very close by.
> Does anyone know of a good source of information about slug behavior?
If
> so, I would appreciate getting that address.
>
> Hank Zumach
> Stoddard, WI
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ShayDguy@aol.com>
> To: <hosta-open@mallorn.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 10:46 AM
> Subject: slugs
>
>
> > Dear friends,
> >
> > Maybe I'm crazy, but here's an observation from my Detroit (z6) garden.
> >
> > I, too was troubled by slugs in years past. Not too severe, but by
> > mid-August, you could tell which plants were preferred bu the little
> > critters. While gardening during summer 2000, I came across this HUGE
> > slug--about 5" long, mottled back and nasty looking as all get out. I
> > figured it had hitch-hiked with some plants bought from the west coast.
> > While digging up a hosta to divide this spring, I found another in the
> root
> > ball. Since it was halfway across the garden from the first one, I
> wurmise
> > that they have pretty well made a new home here.
> >
> > Interestingly, this year I noticed virtually NO slug damage, even on the
> > "tastier" hosta. Could this new slug be dining on the smaller ones?
The
> > small ones have not been in evidence hardly at all this year.
> >
> > Does anyone see any connection in this, or will I be surprised next year
> with
> > 3 foot-long monster garden gobbling hordes of nasty slugs?
> >
> > Any observations welcome.
> >
> > Jim Dixon
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