Re: slugs/snails
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu, Bob Beer <s*@hotmail.com>
- Subject: Re: slugs/snails
- From: "* A* O* <s*@poboxes.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 16:17:14 -0800
At 03:29 PM 2/22/99 PST, you wrote:
>My mom found something that keeps the slugs off her hostas - she puts
>lots of the fruits of sweet gum (Liquidambar, not Eucalyptus, for y'all
>down in Australia) around them. The slugs seem not to like going over
>them.
Bob -
An Irish friend who insists on growing Hostas in our area uses the shedded
redwood mulch commonly called 'gorilla hair' with great success. It is
so wiry, coarse, and dry, they beasties do not seem capible of crossing it.
> I'm going to give it a try around my Iris japonica, which slugs
>seem to adore.
>
>bob
Iris japonica seems to be a true gormet treat for mollusks - I have the
variegated form in my garden, which is very small and NEVER flowers :-( due
to the constant ravages by slug and snail! I should try my own advice!
Maybe I'll also try your Liquidamber trick as well (we've got neighbor-
hoods lousy with these sidewalk raising trees, with the fruits gathering in
great drifts causing pedestrian law-suits for home owners too lazy to clean
them up!).
