Re: Anti-Slug "carpet"?
- To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: Anti-Slug "carpet"?
- From: "* &* B* H* <c*@saltspring.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 20:50:04 -0700
Amy, this is a little experiment i did a year ago and it worked like a
charm. Take a large yogurt container, bury it to the brim in the ground,
put an apple core in the bottom, and cover but prop the cover up enuff to
let the little devils in. Any rotting fruit attracts them and they fall
into the bottom and can't get out. You could put one container inside
another so that you can pull the inside out to dispose of the victims
without the sides collapsing. Worked well in my greenhouse. I hope the bait
will lure them away from the plants for you.
Brian
http://vvv.com/~amdigest/cusheon.htm
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> From: Amy Rupp <amyr@austx.tandem.com>
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: Anti-Slug "carpet"?
> Date: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 4:51 PM
>
> > Set lights on your plant treasures. Sowbugs don't like light.
Margaret
>
> Very true, however, these things are eating DURING THE DAY, in partial
> shade in Texas. While it's not like a flashlight, it's pretty bright
> light. And I'd need a bunch of them. They've also destroyed clematis
> too. I don't understand it... I guess it's because I've added enough
> organic matter to have decent soil, that they come and don't go forth
> and instead be fruitful and multiply. Then when they want salad, I've
> got organic salad too.
>
> Sigh.
>
> --
> 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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