Re: Slugs and Slaters (No. 2)
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- Subject: Re: Slugs and Slaters (No. 2)
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- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 18:53:01 PST
Moira and Sean
Thanks for your suggestions - I have bought some polenta (which I assume
is the same as corn meal?) so I am trying that around the irises. The
idea of traps is good also - I must say that whenever I move a pot there
appears to be hundreds underneath - I usually wimp out and let them run
off rather than squashing them but there is nothing like seeing irises
(that you have waited 50 weeks to flower) collapse to strengthen ones
resolve. As for chooks - love the idea - but I am not sure how 'chook
friendly' my two Australian Cattle Dogs would be??? Our next door
neighbour keeps them and the dogs only look at them through the fence -
but chooks invading their own backyard might be a different matter -
they might trying and herd them!
Susan
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>From: Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
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>Susan George wrote:
>>
>> Yes - this is the first garden in which I have known them to be a
>> problem - I always thought that they only ate decomposing (not live)
>> matter. But late night garden visits with a torch has proved
otherwise.
>> A few months ago I planted some viola seedlings and couldn't work out
>> why they were being decimated - thought it was slugs but no it was
>> slaters!! A friend who lives close by is continually experiencing
slater
>> house invasions (she is on a concrete slab with a continuous surface
on
>> to the terrace) so she is vacuuming them up. As my house is on stumps
I
>> don't seem to have that problem at least.
>>
>> And 3 feet long is a horrible horrible thought - imagine being
>> 'arachnidphobic' as well as 'crustaceanphobic'!!
>>
>Hi Susan
>I have only had one experience of slaters misbehaving and this was
early
>one spring many years ago, at a time when I was not averse to using a
>few fairly drastic remedies. I had some punnets of seedlings outdoors
>under a protective sheet of plastic and I kept on finding the plants
>decapitated and at first suspected slugs/snails, but baiting for them
>produced no result. I desperation I then lightly dusted the soil with
>Diazinon (told you I wasn't fussy then) and the next day the culprits
>were all lying round with their little feet in the air..
>
>If you actually prefer an organic approach to control I really don't
>have a "respectible" way of dealing with them except perhaps to set up
>traps for them like one can for earwigs. Perhaps a flowerpot filled
with
>crumpled paper laid nearby might attract them, and I have heard of
>people having success with a hollowed out potato or apple. Even a board
>(slightly raised on a pebble at one end) or a few odd bricks might seem
>a good daytime hiding place. it is then, of course, necessary to
dispose
>of them and I leave that to your imagination!
>
>If you happen to keep chooks they would, I'm sure, be delighted to
help.
>We had a bantam cock many years ago for whom a nice feed of live
slaters
>was the greatest treat.
>
>Moira
>
>--
>Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
>Wainuiomata, New Zealand
>
>
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