Re: orchids and other houseplants

Hi guys - here in northern Alberta, we don't get the huge, monster sluga that you must get, but we get these creepy little critters that look like BOOGERS!  I swear - El Nino seemed to bring out the worst infestation of them this summer and I couldn't bring myself to eat the lettuce - washing it in the sink for dinner, I found it looked like someone had blown their nose all over the leaves.  Blech!
I've decide to save all of my yogourt containers this winter and I'm going to try cutting the bottom out of each container and planint my tomatoes, lettuce, etc. inside these plastic rings.  Then I'm going to circle the plants with hair clippings from the salon nearby.  My mom in law says that slugs can't stand hair.  All I know is, I can't stand BOOGERS or slugs!!
-----Original Message-----
-----Original Message-----
From: Tomici, Donna <D*@gs.com>
To: '*@prairienet.org' <i*@prairienet.org>
Date: 03 December 1998 08:10
Subject: RE: orchids and other houseplants

Frank, the point is not to give the slugs a treat, but rather to intoxicate
them so they leave your plants alone.  I think they pass out, but the beer
doesn't kill them.  I have never actually seen a hungover slug, but I can't
imagine he'd have much energy to munch on your tulips with all that liquor
in them.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Drew Leyda [S*@valunet.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 10:39 PM
> To: i*@prairienet.org
> Subject: RE: orchids and other houseplants
>
>  Speaking of which, how do you all feel about leaving beer out in the
> garden
> for slugs
> (in warm weather)?
> **************************
> I hate slugs !
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