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Re: Fwd: mulching:(Sow Bugs and other miseries)

Janet,
Thanks for these interesting tips.And good to know someone else has
confirmed my own experience/ observations.I will try some of these soon.
Thanks,
Connie 


Meconella wrote:
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> Subject: Re: mulching:(Sow Bugs and other miseries)
> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 23:20:17 EST
> From: Meconella <Meconella@aol.com>
> Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)
> To: bmprc@micron.net
> 
> In a message dated 3/27/98 9:15:30 AM Pacific Standard Time, bmprc@micron.net
> writes:
> 
> << I plant directly into the soil of my (unheated)greenhouse.(Recognize
>  that this provides an ideal evironment for them and their
>  breeding..)This and every year the tender young seedlings are "grazed"on
>  by them.Needless to say convincing others who have never witnessed this
>  behaviour is very difficult.I seldom try anymore. >>
> 
> Hi,  when I first moved into this house about 6 years ago,  I began growing
> veggies where none had been grown perhaps ever before.  I planted some bush
> bean seeds.  The pill bugs were horrific.  I had never seen anything like it
> before.  They were so numerous they appeared to be a writhing gray mass on the
> cotyledons of the beans as they broke the soil surface as they ate them to the
> ground.  I had to start trapping them in home-made gizmos.  The best were
> sinking clear plastic cups flush with the soil surface and 'baiting' with
> watermelon rind.  They would go in,  and not be able to crawl out.  The other
> effective means was to put out fresh,  moist sweetcorn cobs which they clung
> to, and go out in the morning and shake the 'bugs' off into a container.
> Thank goodness time and ecological balance have returned the pill bugs to a
> more normal numbers.
> 
> Janet.
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