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Crickets like beer and slugs seek revenge
"Frogleg" wrote in message ... On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 17:42:47 GMT, (dstvns) wrote: Romans used to ...salt the lands, so no other living thing could grow there. Besides killing the ground which is salted, the salt is almost always ineffective toward slugs because they shed the outer coat, leaving the salt behind and move on to your plants twice as hungry because they lost so much water. You have obviously never poured salt on a slug and watched him fizz to death. Obviously, since salt *is* bad for ground/plants, this isn't a wholesale solution. But salt *does* kill slugs. I believe it has something to do with instant and complete dehydration. If you'd like to kill the slugs without killing the ground around them, try picking them up and dropping them in a can of alcohol, vinegar or ammonia. *You* pick 'em up. I'll bait, drown, or step on 'em with sturdy wooden garden clogs. :-) This sounds like table salt is just about as evil a RoundUp!!! : ) |
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