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Old 12-12-2002, 10:58 PM
Sue & Bob Hobden
 
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"Kay wrote in message
I'd love verbascums but for some reason I have them filed in my mind as

slug
fodder. It would be great to hear I'm wrong ! Saw some fantastic white
varieties this year ('Helen Johnson' and that ilk haven't appealed

before).

I grow the ordinary yellow mullein with white felted leaves and that has
no problem with slugs.


We grow V.chauxii "Album" with smooth leaves, well no hair, which seeds
around and also does not get "slugged" or more likely "snailed" in our front
garden.

--
Bob

www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in
Runnymede fighting for it's existence.