Re: [CH] slightly OT: Coffee breaks slugs

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At 08:13 PM 6/30/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>although the locally VORacious slug population pretty-much ignores
>my chile plants, i still prefer a veg garden with no pesticide chemicals.
>a spray of stale coffee ... or an application of metaldehyde ...
>hmmmmm, which will i choose ?!!

My local nursery is now selling a slug/snail killer that uses an iron salt 
as the active ingredient.  It works great and is completely nontoxic.  It's 
about twice the cost of Snarol but that's OK.



                          		Scott Peterson

-- 

The Dalai Lama walks up to a hot dog
vendor and says, "Make me one with
everything."

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