Re: Re: stupid question?

At 04:10 PM 7/13/99 -0400, you wrote:
>From: Dennis Kramb <dkramb@badbear.com>
>
>Methinks ye have slugs!
>
>Slug control #1: diatomaceous earth - buy boxes of this at your garden
>center - crushed skeletons of microscopic sea creatures punctures the slugs
>(or snails) skin and they dehydrate & die. (Crushed eggshells work well
>too.)
>
>Slug control #2: slug bait - poison - kills them
>
>Slug control #3: beer - put a pie tin of beer out at dusk, and the slugs
>(or snails) will be drawn to the smell...crawl in & and drown! repeat
>procedure until slug problem is gone
>
>Slug control #4: wood boards - place wood boards down around in your
>garden, the slugs (or snails) will crawl under them during the day to
>escape the heat of the sun, easy pickings for you to make them go *splat!*
>
>Slug control #5: ashes - slugs won't crawl over ashes from your fireplace,
>it won't kill them, but it will deter them.

Slug control #6: salt shaker - the favorite of Southern adolescent boys. I won't tell you what happens. Just salt them down good and watch.


James Brooks
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