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Re: Slugs and Slaters (No. 2)

Cornmeal hey - well I will try it tonight - thanks Sean

Susan

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>>From: "Susan George" <susan_c_george@hotmail.com>
>>To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>>Subject: Slugs and Slaters (No. 2)
>>Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 17:30:11 PST
>>
>> For all those who queried what a slater is I have looked up my pest
>> books and found out that slaters are also called Woodlice, Pillbugs 
or
>> Sowbugs -    <snip>
>> The Collins Guide to Pests, Diseases and Disorders of Garden Plants 
by
>> Stefan Buczacki and Keith Harris suggests using HCH (whatever that 
is?)
>> or Carbaryl Dust (don't know much about this either - but apparently
>> moderately persistent - and I am not keen on using pesticides - I 
even
>> feel uncomfortable about using pyrethrum although I do!).
>>
>> Another book that I looked at suggested pyrethrum mixed with 
eucalyptus
>> - you can buy it here premixed in a pump pack and I was wondering if 
I
>> could further dilute it (with water)and water it into the soil with a
>> watering can to stop the blighters eating my Iris roots and 
rhizomes??
>>
>> Any other suggestions or comments??
>
>Susan - 
>
>Cornmeal.  Just sprinkle some around areas in which they are found.  
They
>little blighters eat it and it does something awful to their digestive 
system!
>Weird but true.  
>
>In our current garden, they were to be found in astronomical numbers!  
My
>then 6 month-old son could be found playing with them as they were 
invading
>the house as well as garden! And they DO eat living tissue and not just
>'decaying matter'.  I have found several plants the populations in my 
garden
>seem to love.  Fortunately, I found out about the cornmeal trick a 
while ago
>and now they are far fewer in number.
>


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