Re: ants, to Sal Schettino

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• Subject: Re: ants, to Sal Schettino
• From: L* <s*@TENET.EDU>
• Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 13:27:17 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970701001157.21918A-100000@ns1.netcentral.net>

On Tue, 1 Jul 1997, Sophia Hansen wrote:

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> Hey Kimo,
>
> I've heard that crushed eggshells or human hair scattered around your
> plants can provide a slug barrier. Also something called diatamaceous (or
> something like that) earth. That's basically ground-up sea shells I think.
> When the slugs crawl on the stuff it either abrades their bottom or sticks
> so that they can't get to your plants.
>
> This is just hearsay from a novice gardener. hope it helps.
>
> Fia


Actually DE is the ancient ground up remains of sea diatams. They are
sharp and pierce the hide of what ever happens to come in contact with
it. Death comes through dehydration.

Dvae

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• Re: ants, to Sal Schettino
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