I have found that spent coffee grounds works very well as a slug deterrent. They provide a nutritious nitrogen rich mulch and compost to a 6.5 Ph. I have kept the slugs off of my strawberries this way for years. I also you cross cut sections from plastic water bottles of various sizes to protect seedlings. Larger sections provide intense seed beds and smaller ones protect single small transplants. When you're done with them the plastic is recyclable (at least here in Seattle)
Ray Schutte Advocate for Community Gardens in Seattle www.ppatchtrust.org -----Original Message----- From: community_garden-boun...@list.communitygarden.org [mailto:community_garden-boun...@list.communitygarden.org] On Behalf Of jhain...@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 1:35 AM To: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org Subject: [Community_garden] Snails My hosta garden is about ten years old and in the past two or three years I've seen hardly any slugs in it. I'm theorizing that, because I've not added any chemicals to it over the years, that the natural diseases and predators of slugs are thriving and it's balanced. I have no way of telling that that is true or not but it is just my experience so far. I think that the problem in vegetable gardens is that, even though we have been using no-tilling, we are still adding new layers of city leaves every year that possibly have the eggs in them and, thus, are introducing new slugs yearly. But I appreciate the article about sluggo and other such products. I don't think we'll stop using it but will be very careful with it. We mainly sprinkle it around seeds as we plant them as, otherwise, we couldn't grow anything from seed in the garden as the slugs eat the germinating plants. Judy in Pontiac Note that I will be leaving the area and comcast in November and am in the process of changing my email address to hainaut...@gmail.com . Please change my address on your address or contact list. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20120208/f5915383/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden@list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
