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Re: English/Californian Summer

Jerry Baker has the formula that works for slugs. Here it is:
75% pelletized lime (pelletized so it will go thru your spreader)
25% Aluminum Sulfate

mix well and apply at a setting of about 3 on your whirlybird handheld
spreader.

It worked for me and I live in Seattle. The weather you had this year in the
Bay Area we have every year up here!

Good Luck!
Larry


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Barclay <opga@hooked.net>
To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 3:39 AM
Subject: English/Californian Summer


> Dear Tim and Listers, 24 June 1998
>
> Thugs, schmugs--I love invasive plants and have never met
> one I couldn't control.  Now moluscs are another problem.
>
> In Kensington, fifteen miles from the Golden Gate and 3 miles
> from SF Bay we had and enlessly wet winter, cold but never
> freezing, no spring, a five day summer of 80's & 90's and have
> lapsed back into eternal gloom.  The days are cold, windy, foggy
> and perfect for snails and slugs--great for deer too!
>
> I've excluded the latter but am losing to them moluscs.  Day and
> frigid night hunts have yielded 100s of the bastards and I've
> crushed each with joy and revenge but my young palms, my phormiums,
> my clematis and don't mention the hollyhocks are shocking.
> The hostas are gone completely.
>
> What are some of your solutions that really work-I've tried
> green sand, beer, poisoned bait, sharp chippings and copper snail/slug
> guard.  We can't stop irrigating for though the summer seems like
>winter
> the plants go dry, especially those in containers.  I have a terribly
> crowded garden so dead-line is useless.  It's making me feel I want
> to give up.
>
> So pet your invasive giant Geraniums-they're easy to move.  What do
> you do to save a massive collection of brooms covered with
> French brown snails every morning?  Will my hostas return?
> Will my sanity survive?  Will the sun ever shine again without
> burning everything to charcoal?  Help!
>
> Michael D. Barclay
> Really Special Plants & Gardens
> opga@wenet.net
>
>
>Michael Barclay, D.Lett.   opga@wenet.net
>Opera Education International/OEI, Berkeley, CA  www.operalover.net
>Please visit our website soon.
>
>
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