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SLUGS! ...was English/Californian Summer

P.S. One other thing... not only should you spread this all over your flower
beds, but also spread it out onto your lawn. This is where the slugs like to
live and breed.

Hope this helps,
Larry


-----Original Message-----
From: lists <lists@bigboard.com>
To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 12:12 PM
Subject: 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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