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Old 06-07-2006, 07:26 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
Kimberly
 
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Default snails! in my tomatoes


"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote in message
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| On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:08:59 -0230, cloud dreamer
| wrote:
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| Make sure you use mulch and not chips or nuggets. The mulch tears up the
| soft underbellies of slugs and snails and they won't cross it. There are
| other solutions like traps, copper and DE, but mulch is the cheapest and
| least labour intensive of all of them.
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| ..if you have wimpy-ass Canadian slugs.
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| My red-necked Southern slugs pick their teeth...or what passes for
| teeth---with mulch.
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| Penelope
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| "Maybe you'd like to ask the Wizard for a heart."
| "ElissaAnn"

LOL So true! Mine cross everything to get what they want.

Kimberly
knows about the dirty south