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Defeating Snails...
All,
'Tis the summer of the escargots! Big, fat snails hiding in the pots, on the benches, etc, and doing their evil night work. I've been using Garden Safe Slug and Snail Bait by Schultz, and it does work (I've been throwing out dead snails). I chose this product because Casper the cat goes out in the lanai and it's safe for him. But the pellets degrade in water, and end up a soggy, moldy mess. This eventually disappears, but it's still mold, and going into the pots. It seems to me that I remember copper being an effective snail/slug deterent. So, if I wrap copper wire around the edges and legs of the benches, and around the hanging bars, will that help? TIA Diana |
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Diana,
I doubt this will help you but for others it may....TOADS! I have lots of toads everywhere. They laid eggs in the small pond in the back and now I have baby toads everywhere. I have big fat toads all over the property. I have three or four that live in the greenhouse. I don't have any slugs. Toads love to eat slugs. If you can keep the cat from playing with the toads then when you see one outside scoop it up and put it with your plants on the lanai. Good Growing, Gene "Diana Kulaga" wrote in message hlink.net... All, 'Tis the summer of the escargots! Big, fat snails hiding in the pots, on the benches, etc, and doing their evil night work. I've been using Garden Safe Slug and Snail Bait by Schultz, and it does work (I've been throwing out dead snails). I chose this product because Casper the cat goes out in the lanai and it's safe for him. But the pellets degrade in water, and end up a soggy, moldy mess. This eventually disappears, but it's still mold, and going into the pots. It seems to me that I remember copper being an effective snail/slug deterent. So, if I wrap copper wire around the edges and legs of the benches, and around the hanging bars, will that help? TIA Diana |
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What you need is some copper fashing a couple of inches wide. It's pretty
soft and easy to cut. They also make a copper snail barrier but I don't know what it's called. Shell "Diana Kulaga" wrote in message hlink.net... All, 'Tis the summer of the escargots! Big, fat snails hiding in the pots, on the benches, etc, and doing their evil night work. I've been using Garden Safe Slug and Snail Bait by Schultz, and it does work (I've been throwing out dead snails). I chose this product because Casper the cat goes out in the lanai and it's safe for him. But the pellets degrade in water, and end up a soggy, moldy mess. This eventually disappears, but it's still mold, and going into the pots. It seems to me that I remember copper being an effective snail/slug deterent. So, if I wrap copper wire around the edges and legs of the benches, and around the hanging bars, will that help? TIA Diana |
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Don't forget the old beer trick. You can also make a trap that
they enter and that protects the bait from the water to some extent. Cut the top off a soda bottle down in the full size area. Turn it inside out - so the open top goes into the bottle. Staple the cut edges together and you have a plastic trap that holds the bait out of the way of most water. The beer trick is easier. - Just put out a saucer of beer. Cover it or leave it uncovered. They love beer climb in it readily. For traps you can also leave a citrus rind upside down on a bench. They will climb up into it to spend the day. Early morning discard should help thin the crop. Good luck. SuE http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php |
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Don't forget the old beer trick. You can also make a trap that
they enter and that protects the bait from the water to some extent. Cut the top off a soda bottle down in the full size area. Turn it inside out - so the open top goes into the bottle. Staple the cut edges together and you have a plastic trap that holds the bait out of the way of most water. The beer trick is easier. - Just put out a saucer of beer. Cover it or leave it uncovered. They love beer climb in it readily. For traps you can also leave a citrus rind upside down on a bench. They will climb up into it to spend the day. Early morning discard should help thin the crop. Good luck. SuE http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php |
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I've heard grape juice works too. We were infested in the front yard and I
found Sluggo worked great. Had to apply it twice and will probably apply it one more time but I haven't seen any snails in awhile Shell "Susan Erickson" wrote in message ... Don't forget the old beer trick. You can also make a trap that they enter and that protects the bait from the water to some extent. Cut the top off a soda bottle down in the full size area. Turn it inside out - so the open top goes into the bottle. Staple the cut edges together and you have a plastic trap that holds the bait out of the way of most water. The beer trick is easier. - Just put out a saucer of beer. Cover it or leave it uncovered. They love beer climb in it readily. For traps you can also leave a citrus rind upside down on a bench. They will climb up into it to spend the day. Early morning discard should help thin the crop. Good luck. SuE http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php |
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Oh, we have little toads, Gene! I find them in the orchids all the time.
And Casper would "play" with them, for sure. Happily, he hasn't caught any. We've got tons of geckos out there, too. Those, he does catch, although he doesn't try to kill them. He wants to play. Diana |
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Oh, we have little toads, Gene! I find them in the orchids all the time.
And Casper would "play" with them, for sure. Happily, he hasn't caught any. We've got tons of geckos out there, too. Those, he does catch, although he doesn't try to kill them. He wants to play. Diana |
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Thanks, Sue and Shell. I think we'll take an all-out-war approach and do
the bait trap, copper, and beer, along with more bait in the pots, until I feel rid of them. Dirty rotten scoundrels! Diana |
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On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 20:23:26 GMT, "Diana Kulaga"
wrote: Thanks, Sue and Shell. I think we'll take an all-out-war approach and do the bait trap, copper, and beer, along with more bait in the pots, until I feel rid of them. Dirty rotten scoundrels! Diana Don't forget - If you pick any up toss them out hole. If you squash them they self fertilize the eggs and you are now the carrier planting snail eggs on every plant you touch. Big snails or little. My question is how do the little bush snails get into vandas hanging over head? I found 3 of the little guys today. SuE http://orchids.legolas.org/gallery/albums.php |
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Diana,
Try a product such as THAT'S IT, which doesn't leave a soggy mess and crown rot in some orchids. .. . . Pam Everything Orchid Management System http://www.pe.net/~profpam/page3.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Diana Kulaga wrote: All, 'Tis the summer of the escargots! Big, fat snails hiding in the pots, on the benches, etc, and doing their evil night work. I've been using Garden Safe Slug and Snail Bait by Schultz, and it does work (I've been throwing out dead snails). I chose this product because Casper the cat goes out in the lanai and it's safe for him. But the pellets degrade in water, and end up a soggy, moldy mess. This eventually disappears, but it's still mold, and going into the pots. It seems to me that I remember copper being an effective snail/slug deterent. So, if I wrap copper wire around the edges and legs of the benches, and around the hanging bars, will that help? TIA Diana |
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I tried the copper wire thing for slugs. Basically took a wire around
the perimeter boards of a raised garden bed. Didn't do a thing to deter the slugs. I went back to the Bait. Diana Kulaga wrote: All, 'Tis the summer of the escargots! Big, fat snails hiding in the pots, on the benches, etc, and doing their evil night work. I've been using Garden Safe Slug and Snail Bait by Schultz, and it does work (I've been throwing out dead snails). I chose this product because Casper the cat goes out in the lanai and it's safe for him. But the pellets degrade in water, and end up a soggy, moldy mess. This eventually disappears, but it's still mold, and going into the pots. It seems to me that I remember copper being an effective snail/slug deterent. So, if I wrap copper wire around the edges and legs of the benches, and around the hanging bars, will that help? TIA Diana |
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If I'm not mistaken, a wire won't do the trick. It needs to be a strip wide
enough that the entire body must pass over it at once to be effective. I'd rather just kill them, though... -- Ray Barkalow - First Rays Orchids - www.firstrays.com Plants, Supplies, Books, Artwork, and Lots of Free Info! .. "mg" wrote in message ... I tried the copper wire thing for slugs. Basically took a wire around the perimeter boards of a raised garden bed. Didn't do a thing to deter the slugs. I went back to the Bait. Diana Kulaga wrote: All, 'Tis the summer of the escargots! Big, fat snails hiding in the pots, on the benches, etc, and doing their evil night work. I've been using Garden Safe Slug and Snail Bait by Schultz, and it does work (I've been throwing out dead snails). I chose this product because Casper the cat goes out in the lanai and it's safe for him. But the pellets degrade in water, and end up a soggy, moldy mess. This eventually disappears, but it's still mold, and going into the pots. It seems to me that I remember copper being an effective snail/slug deterent. So, if I wrap copper wire around the edges and legs of the benches, and around the hanging bars, will that help? TIA Diana |
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My question is how do the little bush snails get into vandas
hanging over head? I found 3 of the little guys today. SuE I guess they climb, since I find them in overhead stuff as well. Diana |
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Try a product such as THAT'S IT, which doesn't leave a soggy mess and
crown rot in some orchids. Haven't heard of that, but I'll check it out. Thanks, Pam. Diana |
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