Re: Desperately Seeking slug relief on dahlias!
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- Subject: Re: Desperately Seeking slug relief on dahlias!
- From: "* I* J* <j*@ix.netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 22:28:39 +0000
- References: <359430eb49a5002@laurel.kp.org>
Lewis,Shirlee E wrote:
>
> > Katherine Roberts wrote:
> >
> > Second, does anyone have any idea whether the vinegar
> > and water also works on the roly-poly (they roll into a ball when
> > they
> > get touched) bugs? The slug and snail pellets are supposed to kill
> > them too, or so we've been told. But it seems like we live right on
> > top of a *huge* roly-poly mound or something, because there seems to
> > be no end in sight. When it gets as dry ass it has gotten in Texas
> > recently the rotten little bugs even invade our house looking for
> > water, and they like to eat my iris rhizomes! Even if the vinegar
> > and
> > water solution doesn't help, does anyone have any other suggestions?
> >
> > Those little critters can really be a problem. Three years ago they
> > ate my brand new rhizome of BABOONS BOTTOM. I gave up and resorted to
> > the dreaded "chemical" solution. I found a Lilly Miller product for
> > earwigs, sow bugs (those rolly polly ones) and grasshoppers. I don't
> > remember about the grasshoppers; but, it really worked well on the
> > other two.
> >
> > Shirlee Lewis (sunny, warm and I have to go to Mom's to start working
> > off that Mother's day present.)
> > Southern California Iris Society
> > Secretrary
> > shirlee.e.lewis@kp.org
> > FAX 562-461-4217
> > VOICE 562-461-4912
> >
> >
