Re: crickets and slugs
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- Subject: Re: crickets and slugs
- From: "* C* <m*@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 07:12:12 PDT
From: "AE C" <maestro123@hotmail.com>
Until we moved here, I have never had problems with slugs. They are
very persistant at eating my Jalapeno pepper plants. They don't eat
anything thing else but them. :(
ElizabethP.
Indianapolis, Indiana USA
Zone 5
>Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 08:41:50 -0400
>From: dkramb@tso.cin.ix.net (Dennis Kramb)
>To: iris-talk@onelist.com
>Reply-to: iris-talk@onelist.com
>Subject: [iris-talk] crickets and slugs
>
>From: dkramb@tso.cin.ix.net (Dennis Kramb)
>
>I don't get it. I hear all these stories about slugs, snails, and
crickets
>feasting on irises...which no doubt are true stories. However, I see
these
>things all the time in my garden (and I do mean all the
time...especially
>the slugs) but they have never ever ever ever ever ever done any damage
to
>my irises!
>
>I've never protected my irises against them because they ignore them.
Why
>don't my slugs & crickets care for my irises?
>
>To be truthful, the only thing the slugs have attacked is the dish of
>catfood that I leave out on the back patio!
>
>Dennis Kramb; dkramb@tso.cin.ix.net
>Cincinnati, Ohio USA; USDA Zone 6; AIS Region 6
>Member of AIS, ASI, HIPS, RIS, SIGNA, & Miami Valley Iris Society
>Primary Interests: Arilbreds, Rebloomers, and Native Ohio Species
Irises
>
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