"W. Baker" > wrote in message
...
> Robert Miles > wrote:
> : 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.
>
> You can always put out those shallow dishes of beer for the slugs. they
> love it, fall in and drown, but drown happy, at least:-)

But then I'd need shallow dishes because I have none. And beer which I have
none of either.