Re: slugs/snails

For snails (Helix aspera) : Ducks -- the ultimate snail predators, (nothing
comes close to their rapaciousness) They will search out and devour
whatever snails they can reach. Another benefit here in northern california
is that the ducks seem to prefer the european garden snails over the native
snail fauna.  

Ducks won't bother quite a few garden plants but are quite found of melon
plants and have the strange habit of eating any flowers within their reach.

For slugs: Cheap beer in a dish or bowl with a tent to keep out the rain  -
the little idiots therein love to drown themselves.

For either: metaldahyde - but do keep your dim-witted dogs and fowl away
from it - it will control them also.

Also for snails, in case you can't procur or maintain a family of ducks,
i've found that you can spread some black plastic or tar paper in an
out-of-the-way place, weigh it down with rocks, not too snugly, to the
ground and wait a few weeks. Lift it up on a relatively warm, dry day - it
will probably be covered with dozens of the devils.

karl.
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