Glenna Rose wrote:
writes:
Mannnnnnny thanks for your interesting and prompt response.
Thanks a bunch.
However would prefer not to use pellets as I would not wish anything
similar
to happen to me.
Use beer, Budweiser is the best. Yeast water is also supposed to work,
but I've had much better luck when I've spent the bucks on Bud. I hate to
kill things but figure they die happy; they're drunk, after all, right?
Here's an odd suggestion or three.
1) Place your beer bait OUTSIDE the garden in a perimeter. If you place it
inside the garden, then slugs from outside will arrive faster than the
locals can be dispatched. Instead, draw the locals outside to greet the new
arrivals with a welcoming beer bash.
2) I'll get flambed to a fair thee well over this, but I have found
scattering a pretty heavy application of fresh, ground coffee over the
grounds at the first sign of damage / slime trails to be nearly 100%
effective. NOT used grounds, fresh ones. Slugs come out to 'smell the
coffee'. Once.
3) We all gotta go sometime and there are very few pleasant exits. The fact
is that if there are not enough natural predators, the slug population will
grow to match the available vegetation. Plus 10%. The second fact is that,
due to their nocturnal habits, slugs effectively have few natural
predators. If you don't want to try the coffee extermination route or the
constant upkeep of the beer bait route and you don't want to lay down
Sluggo, look for anti-slug products using ferrous gluconate as their active
ingredient. It breaks down to an organic fertilizer. And so do slugs.
I don't wanna fight Paghat, but I sure wouldn't turn to her (a Wiccan) for
help understanding the scriptures.
Bill