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Falling rain
06-12-2005, 08:56 AM
Hiya, I'm new here, I adore gardening! I try to be organic but sometimes I find I have to use slug pellets because all my carrot and radish seedlings get eaten. Has anyone got any tips?

Peace :o

LIBRA
06-20-2005, 08:08 AM
A pie plate with beer, bury it alittle so they can climb in and they wont climb out, it kills them. Or a beer can on its side with as much beer in it as you can but the pie plate works better.

toman
08-04-2005, 04:43 PM
Salt works, too. You can just put a ring of it around the plants they like to eat, and after they chill in it for a while you'll have dried slug carcasses. Yum! :D

Herbmama
08-06-2005, 08:32 AM
Salt works, too. You can just put a ring of it around the plants they like to eat, and after they chill in it for a while you'll have dried slug carcasses. Yum! :D

How do you keep the salt from soaking into the dirt and killing your plants?
Salting the earth used to be a war technic...salt the fields so nothing can grow and doom your enemies to famine.