"St. George" St. wrote in message
...
Hey Guys,

This started out as for advice on the plus or minus of slugs and snails
!!!!!!

Botton line is snails and slugs are good for nothing except bird food. Get
some ducks or chickens if you want to control them organically. They also
hate copper and will not cross a strip of copper, so you can wrap copper
foil around the stems of affected plants and they will not crawl past that.
Go out in the morning and pick them off by hand. Look for their hiding
places (under rocks and boards); they will not be very far from the plants.
Reduce the number of hiding places. Use slug and snail bait where needed.
Got to reduce their populations. - Thanks, C.

"St. George" St. wrote in message
...
Hey Guys,

This started out as for advice on the plus or minus of slugs and snails
!!!!!!

Botton line is snails and slugs are good for nothing except bird food. Get
some ducks or chickens if you want to control them organically. They also
hate copper and will not cross a strip of copper, so you can wrap copper
foil around the stems of affected plants and they will not crawl past that.
Go out in the morning and pick them off by hand. Look for their hiding
places (under rocks and boards); they will not be very far from the plants.
Reduce the number of hiding places. Use slug and snail bait where needed.
Got to reduce their populations. - Thanks, C.

"St. George" St. wrote in message
...
Hey Guys,

This started out as for advice on the plus or minus of slugs and snails
!!!!!!

Botton line is snails and slugs are good for nothing except bird food. Get
some ducks or chickens if you want to control them organically. They also
hate copper and will not cross a strip of copper, so you can wrap copper
foil around the stems of affected plants and they will not crawl past that.
Go out in the morning and pick them off by hand. Look for their hiding
places (under rocks and boards); they will not be very far from the plants.
Reduce the number of hiding places. Use slug and snail bait where needed.
Got to reduce their populations. - Thanks, C.

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 17:08:59 GMT, "Charles Newton"
wrote:


Botton line is snails and slugs are good for nothing except bird food.

But you do have entertainment value....

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 17:08:59 GMT, "Charles Newton"
wrote:


Botton line is snails and slugs are good for nothing except bird food.

But you do have entertainment value....

"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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"St. George" St. wrote in message
...


I make a flippant remark about slugs being unclean, and end up
reading
part of a long diatribe that seems to have little point.

Ray Drouillard

Ray,

I am the originator of this string (what role does the snail and/or
slug
have in the garden) and am amazzzzzzzzzzzzzed at all the nonsense
replies.

Have a Good Day

Are you really so unfamiliar with the phenomenon of thread drift?

Franz

The answer my Dear Franz is - YES.
I am very active on the Rugby Newsgroups.
However I find this drift absolute childish nonsense.

Have a good day - with a slug or two.

Happpppppppppy Everythings,

LenBo

"hippy gardener" wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 17:08:59 GMT, "Charles Newton"
wrote:


Botton line is snails and slugs are good for nothing except bird food.

But you do have entertainment value....

Real cute, zippie. You just crapped and I found it. Thanks a lot - C.

"runoutfishname" wrote in message
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"Charles Newton" wrote in news:22yad.262
:

"hippy gardener" wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 17:08:59 GMT, "Charles Newton"
wrote:


Botton line is snails and slugs are good for nothing except bird food.

But you do have entertainment value....

Real cute, zippie. You just crapped and I found it. Thanks a lot - C.



Is crappie your most often used word?

Only when crapies like you swim around in my computer scrern and leave
little dung threads hanging from their behinds. Just like you and how your
crappy pappy always taught you. See what I mean now? Please stop pooping
your crap all over this chat space and I will not report you to EARTHLINK
like I did to packrat the raturd. You don't see her writing here any more
do you? Got it, fellah? Good. Thanks for nothing - C.

"St. George" St. wrote in message
...
Hi,

Probably an old Chestnut but am new to this N.G.

Could someone please advise if hedgehogs should be encouraged or
discouraged
in the garden.

Also what is the role of the snail and slug ?

Thank you in anticipation,

Happppppppppppppppy Everythings,

LenBo, Weston-SUPER-Mare




Slugs exist to do two things:

1) They function as little janitors.
2) They gross out 12 year old girls, which is a worthwhile thing, according
to my son.