Re: OT-Plants: Hosta
- To: i*@egroups.com
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] OT-Plants: Hosta
- From: C*@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 22:21:20 EDT
In a message dated 5/31/00 10:01:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
irisborer@aol.com writes:
<< Get yourself a squirt gun and fill it with ammonia.... see if you
can so some of that fancy Annie Oakly stuff with a mirror over your
shoulder. >>
I'd frankly rather have slug damage than have saucers of dead slugs floating
in beer around the place. I prefer hunting with bamboo barbecue skewers and a
flashlight myself. One idea The Borer shared with me previously sounded very
interesting. Something about putting a little ring of granular fertilizer
around the target plant. Said to suck the precious bodily fluids right out of
them when they try to cross it. And then there was some slug-specific
bait--pheromone based--that Bill Smoot mentioned once.Was it called Deadline?
With that one is said to be able to simply comehither them to their doom,
with no risk to other life forms. Of course one might be just issuing a broad
invitation to a slug orgy. I used to use some bait around here until I
figured I'd lured every slug for a quarter mile into the yard. There were
hundreds of the things, eventually dead, mind you, but how do you stop
something like that?
Anner, in Virginia
ChatOWhitehall@aol.com
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