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Re: [SG] Slug Control -Reply -Reply -Reply -Reply

Kay, I know you live in my area.  Where did
you get Escar-go locally?

>>> Kay Lancaster <kay@FERN.COM>
05/21/98 08:59am >>>
I'm recommending that you consider the
nutrient levels
of your soil before you use tremendous amounts
of wood
ash.  A bit here and there rarely hurts anything,
but
large quantities can and do change the soil pH
and
potassium and phosphorous levels in
troublesome ways.

I'm pretty cautious about blanket
recommendations that
involve adding major amounts of minor
nutrients to soils,
too...  I've seen enough soils with "trace mineral
excess
disease" that I really do think that many of the
trace mineral
mixes should be close to "prescription only".  ;-)

There is a new slug and snail bait available
under the name
EsCarGo (I think, I'll have to go look at the
box), that is
1% iron orthophosphate in a plant
materials-based binder.  I've
only had about 3 days experience with it, but it
does seem to be
quite efficacious, without the problems
associated with metaldehyde
baits.  It's also a bit pricey at the moment,
$2/lb.

At the moment, I'm still mainly relying on
metaldehyde baits in
pop bottle traps for slug control, but I'm trying
the iron orthophosphate
around some seedlings.  Will let you all know
how the experiment
goes.

Kay Lancaster  kay@fern.com
in slug-ridden Hillsboro, Oregon.

On Thu, 21 May 1998, SUSAN SAXTON
wrote:

> Are you NOT recommending using this
then?
> Just don't want to take a seemingly good idea
> and ruin something else.  I was thinking of
> small amounts of ash as slug bait, herein
PNW.
>
> You can also push your soil into potassium
or
> phosphorous
> imbalance, since those nutrients aren't
readily
> lost.
> Then you've got *real* troubles.
>
> Kay Lancaster    kay@fern.com
> just west of Portland, OR; USDA zone 8
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