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Re: Slug Help



At 07:08 AM 10/3/97 -0400, SUEHUL@aol.com wrote:
>I am in need of some advice about slugs.  Especially -- 
>
> Do they winter over (in Minnesota)?  
>Is there anything I can do this fall to reduce my slug population in the
>spring?
>Are there ways to deter them, as opposed to just killing them when they come?
>How much salting of slugs can I do before it's going to hurt my soil?

Ducks love 'em to death, if you're in a place where you can raise ducks.
Side benefits of this are duck eggs, feathers, duck poop for fertilizer,
Duck A l'Orange and feathers for decoration and/or feather meal.

I try to avoid adding *any* salt to my soil.  Irrigating with groundwater
already does that.

Other possible remedies:  Picking after dark (yecch), sprinkling
diatomaceous earth (DE) around your plants (microscopic sharp points that
hurt slugs & snails to crawl over - this will have to be reapplied after
rains and/or watering), crushed eggshells, and copper strips.

I'm sure there's more...that's just off the top of my head.

Loren,
who deals with snails *and* slugs in the garden
--
Loren Davidson      
loren@wombat.net         http://www.batnet.com/beauty/
"Fundamentalism stops a thinking mind" - seen on a bumper sticker


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