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Fwd: Help Please

Our slugs might be a little whimpy, but they have got a lot of guts.  What
they lack in size and stature, they make up in numbers and resilience.  Our
slugs readily head for beer, with no hesitation, and slurp themselves into a
sluggish stupor until, alas for them, it is over.

We, too, use "fullers earth" and other solutions.  But the best one I have
heard of yet is to go outside, early AM, and STOMP 'em.  Of course, I have
yet to try this.  I mastered the finger flick technique some years ago when I
found them clinging to a peat box of plants.

Judy
Jalust@aol.com
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Forwarded message:
From:	pattersp@oes.orst.edu
To:	veggie-list@eskimo.com
CC:	Jalust@aol.com
Date: 97-07-11 15:49:12 EDT

Boy, you have wimpy slugs if a little sandpaper will deter them! Our 
Oregon slugs take on wood ash, diatomaceous earth, crushed glass, 
etc. without a whimper. They are super slimers and just lay down a 
nice smooth slime highway over all the above. They do *hate* copper, 
however. We get better results with sourdough bait than with beer.
Pat

Pat Patterson
25 miles from Eugene, OR on the Coast Range
If it has two ends, spin it.
Gardening feeds the soul too.
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