Re: echinacea and slugs
- Subject: Re: echinacea and slugs
- From: d* f*
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 08:44:18 -0700 (PDT)
--- Anthony Lyman-Dixon
<lyman@lyman-dixon.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> Do you get slugs in California? they devour every
> Echinacea we put out
> in England and would love your mulch, but in one of
> the tunnels that is
> too dry for them, the Echinacea purpurea are more
> than five feet tall.
> Anthony
>
We certainly do have slugs here in California, though
they are less of a problem in hotter inland areas than
nearer the coast where the fog keeps things moister.
Here in my own Berkeley garden, I have noticed that
since I put down new mulch in one virtually unwatered
bed, that the slug numbers have increased explosively,
such that I had to bait for the first time. They were
devouring my succulent Graptoverias, which perhaps
were more prone to such damage for being grown in deep
shade. The same plant in same mulch conditions were
untouched in full sun areas. They were also eating
the succulent Graptopetalum paraguayense, which is
normally immune to attack. I don't know about
Echinacea being fatally attractive to slugs here, as I
don't grow it.
David Feix
Berkeley, California
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