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Old 02-06-2007, 05:26 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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"Geoff" writes:
| I have a raised bed of strawberry plants - planted in slots in a porous
| membrane which is weighted around the plants with pea gravel.
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| Although I try to keep the berries off the gravel by placing them over leaf
| stalks, some are on the gravel/membrane: those are the ones the woodlice
| eat!
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| Any ideas for getting rid of the woodlice please without anything nasty to
| poison the strawberries.

It would do you no good.

Woodlice don't attack undamaged strawberries, and you are merely finding
the ones that have followed on after slugs have made holes. Concentrate
on attacking the slugs.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.