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, Billy wrote: In article , "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Billy" wrote in message ... In article , "FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Billy" wrote in message When youΉre down to only a few slugs, you can fall back on the traditional organic control, which is to trap them with beer. Put an inch or so of any beer in a cup, bury it in the garden nearly to the rim, and collect your drowned slugs in the morning. Or, put some beer in plastic drink bottles and lay them on their sides in the garden. The slugs will crawl in and drown. As I understand it, it's not drowning, it's the yeast. I'd always thought that the yeast acts as a poison for slugs and snails so you dont' need huge amounts of it. The dregs from the bottom of a bottle of beer that has been drunk is enough. I've never used a lot of beer and still the snails have died (and not whilst in the the liquid, but near it). Now you've got me wondering about what it is about the beer and yeast spreads that works. Do you mean the little "fun-guys", themselves, or chemicals that they produce, like ethanol? Unlike Coopers, I'm not familiar with any USian beers that are "krausened" (leaving yeast in the bottle). I've never had good luck using beer on snails and slugs. Maybe it is the lack of yeast in the beer, or that most USian beer is so highly processed, that our "refined" European snails may not recognize it as beer. Micro-brewery beers, on the other hand, are too good, and too expensive to put out for the marauding gangs of gastropods that used to menace my garden. I've seen very few slugs and snail this wet spring (19C and rain today). When I put a plant in the ground now, it is still there the next day, not just a green stump where the plant used to be. This I attribute to my reliance on ferric phosphate (iron phosphate) baits. :-)) Perhaps you need to go buy some Vegemite or Marmite or Promite ::-))))) If you don't like the taste of it on your toast, (and anyone with any degree of discernment, style and class will of course like it on their toast) you can use it on the gastropods. What? It's better than Nuss Nuggat with raspberry jam on toast? I Whoops, Nuss Nuggat is what they call it in Germany, in the States we use the French brand, Nutella. already have enough habits, most of them are bad, but I await the opportunity to give it a go ;O) I'm not sure what my formerly rampaging gangs of snails and slugs are having for breakfast in that Gastropod Valhalla where they now reside. Saw your waterspouts on the telly, very impressive, WOW. -- - Billy Mad dog Republicans to the right. Democratic spider webs to the left. True conservatives, and liberals not to be found anywhere in the phantasmagoria of the American political landscape. America is not broke. The country is awash in wealth and cash. It's just that it's not in your hands. It has been transferred, in the greatest heist in history, from the workers and consumers to the banks and the portfolios of the uber-rich. http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/.../michael-moore /michael-moore-says-400-americans-have-more-wealth-/ |
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