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"Kimberly" wrote:

"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
| --
| "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

My experience is that fine mulch reduces the number of snails and slugs
but nothing replaces going out at night (and at different times) with a
flashlight and taking matters into your own hands.