cat food cans work a treat for catching slugs, and wine fo r roaches if you
see those, Lee
"W. Baker" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove > wrote:
>
> : "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.
>
> Try jar tops, make shallow dises out of aluminum foil, old saucers, just
> us a little imagination.
>
> Wendy
>
>