On 11 Jan, 15:26, Anne Welsh Jackson wrote:
An "old wives" gardening tips book suggests hair clippings, for
keeping slugs away from plants. *When you think how irritating
short pieces of hair can be, after a visit to the hairdressers, it's
not hard to see why the slugs wouldn't want to climb over a
barrier created with it. *

Who do you call 'old wives'? ;o)

Which reminds me, got this email the other day from a woman who's
looking to get lots of hair from dogs ...

Here goes: - "I am a spinner, I spin yarn on a spinning wheel. More
usually a spinner works with wool or alpaca but I am interested in
trying to use long dog-hair fibres to make yarn. If you have a large
long-haired dog (such as long-haired akita or old english sheep dog)
and would be willing to save shed hair, I would be willing to share
some of the yarn produced, assuming the experiment works. If you think
you can help please do get in contact. kath at kathsrealm dot com".

If any of yous have long hair dogs, like I do, send her your hair -
that is if you can spare some from your slug traps ;o)