billh
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Post by billh on May 29, 2012 18:04:59 GMT -5
I've read a little about this stuff and was wondering what every one else thinks of it. So fire away. am I wasting my time using it? Did I jump the gun recommending it for slug slaying? Is it wasted after so much as a light dew??? I don't have time to pick the bugs off by hand, and am about to go toxic .....spry spray squirt squirt. Thanks again for your help and input.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2012 4:32:56 GMT -5
some friends of mine is using it but I have not tried it. I did find sluggo and used it around my bean plants and have not seen anymore slugs. But I also read somewhere to put crushed egg shells around the plants and I did, so really don't know which one stopped the slugs
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littleminnie
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Post by littleminnie on Jun 2, 2012 22:11:12 GMT -5
Diatomaceous earth is certainly useful. I always worry about worms that come to the surface but everyone says it doesn't bother worms. I have excessive phosphorus and shouldn't use Sluggo and many other things don't work. I have heard a good slug trap is to leave kitchen scraps out at night in the rows then in the morning go pick the slugs off.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2012 22:47:30 GMT -5
Crushed egg shells work well. So does leaving out a shallow bowl of beer.
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Post by stratcat on Oct 2, 2012 0:35:51 GMT -5
This year I used food grade Diatomaceous Earth for the first time. I found it effective.
Sprinkled on the ground around my small tomato plants, the cutworms stopped eating on the foliage. I applied it on my ornamental cabbages and the cabbage worms then left them alone.
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