and birds eat peppers and never taste the hot, Lee
"Robert Miles" > wrote in message
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> On 12/21/2011 1:55 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> i would garden but every plant i touch dies quickly and painfully it
>>> seems,
>>> lol, but my mom and now sister garden so i get fresh stuff anyway, lol,
>>> Lee
>>
>> I gave up on it. Too many slugs and wild animals around here. They kept
>> eating it all and I had to keep replanting.
>
> For the wild animals, you might keep them out most of the growing season
> by planting a row of extremely hot peppers around the edge of your
> garden. Note that then they get hungry enough, they'll work out a way
> past that row, though.
>
> You'll need a gate blocking each gap in the row.
>
> Slugs are small enough to crawl past the pepper plants without noticing
> them, so this is unlikely to do much about them.
>