Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pat Meadows <pat@meadows.pair.com>]

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:29:12 -0500, you wrote:

>. The 
>prolific slugs in the garden have had me stumped. They also make me realize 
>that I've been fighting off parasites with my livestock for a very good 
>reason. So we've tried a little poultry, but the poultry have made gardening 
>impossible, as they also eat the things I plant. However, I doubt there is a 
>slug or grub left in my garden. And we have more eggs than we know what to 
>do with now, mostly laid in the outhouse-turned-garden-shed. (The chickens 
>adopted it as a laying house). Next step is a fence around the garden, with 
>controlled pasturing.

There's a safe, and I believe organic, slug bait.  It's
based on iron phosphate, a naturally occurring mineral.  I
use it, it works.  

GardensAlive.com carries one version of it, called
'EsCar-Go' and 'Sluggo' is another version.  I was in a
local garden center yesterday, and they've started carrying
another brand (which I forget).

http://www.gardensalive.com/product.asp?pn=2111

Pat
-- northern Pennsylvania
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry