Re: Anti-Slug "carpet"?
At 12:38 PM 5/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> Yes. My Mom taught me to use prickly needles (not like a white pine, but
>> actually more like the short spiky ones from a spruce). They seem to
>> work pretty well in her garden.
>>
>> Would coarse sand work?
>
>MAYBE. Haven't tried it.
>
>My problem is PILLBUGS. They are unstoppable by anything, including DE.
>I have to go to slugnsnail bait (highly toxic, and against my otherwise
>organic gardening practices) to stop them. They will eat pansies and
>violas to nothing and will attack smaller or weakened plants and their
>root systems meaning setting things out is risky unless you surround
>them with S&S bait.
>
>Beer and all that jazz mean nothing. There are more and more and more.
>
>--
>Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com) Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
>Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
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