"Ron H" wrote in message
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Last year I built a coldframe. My wife moved three flats of marigolds into
it and something promptly ate the tops off of every one of them.... I
didn't think anything ate marigolds! What do you suppose it was? Slugs?
Cutworms? Mice?

Any suggestions to avoid the issue this year BEFORE I move plants out this
year?

Thanks
Ron H. in West Central Wisconsin


1) Dishes of beer, recessed into the ground so rims are level with soil.
Remove drowned slugs and put them in your wife's purse, or elsewhere.

2) Some sources say to spread sand around plants, because slugs don't like
the sharpness of the particles. Never tried this.