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slugs

blaketaylore
13 years ago

I just read this off the hills gardening site, thought some may be interested....

Slugs will studiously avoid gardens in which the soil is treated with appropriate amounts of lime or sweetening wood ash; their physiology is powerfully acidic....alkaline conditions are abhorrent to them! They'd much prefer to remain in the acidy woods and weeds. A mulch of freshly made compost will also help to deter slugs (because the pH of properly-made compost is near-neutral!). Use commercial slug pellets only in extreme conditions - and then with great care and concern for children, pets and wildlife. One last slug-point: forget the saucers of beer and crawling around during the dawn and dusk with flashlights, salt shakers and scissors. Keeping it simple has, for our once-heavily-slug-infested acidic woods, been the only way to go. Chances are better than good that it'll work for you, too.

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