On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 20:58:22 +0000, Kay Easton
wrote:

In article , Mary Fisher
writes


50 Ways to kill a slug

Also, and far more in tune with my way of gardening:

All you wanted to know about slugs

.. which had ways in which to cope with them without killing them.

Aren't you going to tell us?

:-)

I only glanced through it!

On each left hand page was a description of some aspect of the slugs
behaviour, and on the RHS was how you could turn this to your advantage.
Some fairly naff, like slugs like young tender growth, so avoid planting
out young seedlings (I think we'd all worked that one our for
ourselves),

LOL!
More of a know your enemy book then.

but some people seem to have found 'sacrificial plants' work
well - one lady reckoned growing forget-me-not everywhere meant the
slugs went for that rather than everything else. Certainly a hosta that
seomone gave me is surviving relatively well planted down amongst some
hellebores whereas slug food plants up on the terrace are reduced to 1mm
of bare stem.

our slugs' weakness is a taste for beer.
--
Martin