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  • From: "Laura McKenzie" <laurabrownmckenzie@worldnet.att.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] popular misconceptions
  • Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 05:34:40 -0600

"Mulch attracts bugs." (I think snails and slugs are what they think of mostly.)

I hear that one a lot.

We only grew about 100 tomatoes and 60 chiles/peppers last year but it wasn't too much trouble having the kids help me collect pine cones and sweet gum balls to set around each seedling. No slug or snail problem after that. We don't mulch around the seedlings until they are a fair size and the weather is warmer anyway.

"Tilling is the only way to "lighten" our clay and must be done every year."


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