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Caffeine versus slugs & snails
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Martin Brown wrote: It is more effective just to spread the coffee grounds around sensitive plants like hostas and delphiniums. Turning it into a spray isn't worth the effort. Most things of plant origin that we consume as stimulants and interesting tastes were intended for chemical warfare against plant parasites or fungi. It is sheer good luck that they do us no harm. Not luck! We are evolved from a long history of plant eaters, and have a very high resistance to many such chemicals - caffeine being one. And we don't usually consume the plants which contain ones to which we have no resistance, however interesting they are. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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