That's like the line from 'Aliens': lay down a supressing fire and withdraw.
(The platoon is getting hacked to death and that was the best advice the Lt
could come up with.) Better advice was 'Nuke them from space, its the only
way to be sure.'

I'm a nuke them from space kinda guy. I like to be sure. When I built my GH
I kept in mind one of Aaron Hicks (no relation) posts when he wrote about a
tree ouside a university greenhouse housing so many slugs that one day it
just sort of collapsed in on ittself from all the eaten crud. So I left a
clear zone of 2-3 feet around the GH so slugs would dehydrate before ever
crossing this desert zone. Low and behold, they still made it in. The
suckers must pack for the journey. ("There's a promised land over there
Cornelia, and *we can make it*") So don't believe the 'they'll dehydrate'
theory. Believe the line from 'Jurassic Park': Nature will find a way.

I'm reasonably sure these new slugs didn't hatch from eggs, nor did they
come in on new purchases. And, while I'm not as fastidious as Wilford in
using bleach in the GH for algae control, I do spray it around occasionally
and that chases any lurkers out from under benches and out of pots. Its been
quite a while since I've seen any more slugs. When I do I pick them up and
toss them onto the patio concrete to fry in the noonday sun. (take that)

After that I use any of the baits that have been mentioned here. The higher
in metaldehyde the better result.

K Barrett


"Martin" wrote in message
...
you're supposed to spread diatomaceous earth on the ground where slugs
play and
it will kill them by dehydrating them.