Re: Problem pest?





Valerie Lowery@ZEON
07/09/98 02:28 PM

Julie, the coarse salt I'm thinking of is right in between table salt and
rock salt.  Fine, but not as fine as flour -- maybe cornmeal?.  When I got
it for free, it was very coarse as we used it in our paint formulations.
Now that I buy it from the nursery, it is finer than that.

I have no idea why it hasn't worked for you.  I've had to use it many times
this spring because it was very damp and cool and the slugs were doing a
number on my crambe.  Once I sprinkled the stuff around the plants, I
didn't have any other troubles.  I put maybe a 1" wide circle around each
plant I want to protect with no soil showing through the circle to give you
an idea of how thick it should be.  I reapply every time it rains.

No doubt you were doing this.  If so, I don't have another answer.  Sorry!
Maybe the slugs here in KY are a little less ferocious than those in CA.

Val in KY
zone 6a


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