Re: Efficent Slug Control
- Subject: Re: Efficent Slug Control
- From: "Marge Talt" m*@hort.net
- Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 03:43:03 -0400
Len, I'm reading along, thinking 'what a good idea' and got to your
last line and cracked up:-)
Curious about how the leaves stood up to the vacuuming? Or did you
use low power or something? My leaf vac wants to take the entire
plant when it encounters one.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: Len Phillips <lenphillips@yahoo.com>
>
> This morning I was looking at all the leaves on the ground from the
> drought stressed trees in my hosta garden. I decided to use my
leaf
> vacuum to suck the leaves out of the garden. In the process of
doing
> this, I put the vacuum nozzle over the hosta to remove the tree
leaves on
> the crown and discovered that under all these leaves were a lot of
slugs.
> They were being protected by the tree leaves and enjoying the
hostas that
> I was so faithfully watering during the drought.
>
> I also discovered that if I pushed the vacuum nozzle over the slug,
I
> vacuumed them up with the leaves.
>
> No mess, no goo, no more slugs. I dumped the leaves and slug parts
into
> the compost. Nothing like a little fresh protein to help the
leaves
> compost faster.
>
> The only problem with this idea is that I occasionally vacuumed up
a name
> tag, but it was worth it.
>
>
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