Don't ever throw away empty cottage cheese or margarine containers. Cut the bottoms out and use them as a "collar" around the base of your baby pepper (or whatever) plants. Then get some diatomatatious earth and sprinkle a band about 2 inches wide around the outside of the container. This will keep slugs and other soft-bodied creepy-crawlies away from your baby plants. -- Andie Paysinger & the PENDRAGON Basenjis,Teafer,Cheesy,Singer & Player asenji@earthlink.net So. Calif. USA "In the face of adversity, be patient, in the face of a basenji, be prudent, be canny, be on your guard!" http://home.earthlink.net/~asenji/