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[Lee Lawton <llami AT teleport.com>]

That was my biggest fear, too, when I decided to try no-till. But I've had
fewer slugs the past couple of years than I did the first year I gardened
here in Slug Country. One other thing I do is to put the shells from my
hazelnut crop in the paths and around beds where slugs have been esp.
active. The sharp edges make the slugs stay out. I don't think those slugs
like that sawdust very well--seems like you'd see a big wad of sawdust
moving verrry slowly before it just stopped dead!

Last year, I also used Sluggo, an organic slug bait (iron phosphate, I think
it is). This, too, seemed to help, although you have to use it a lot more
often than the poisonous kind.

Overall, I have a lot more complaint about the cucumber beetles the last
couple of years than I do about the slugs. This could just coincidence, but
I'm not missing those slugs at all!

Lee Lawton
Over the Rainbow Farm
Junction City, Oregon



> From: BBGREGSON AT cs.com
> Reply-To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 13:39:33 EST
> To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: Re: Sawdust as Mulch:
> 
> Lee-
> What about slugs in your permanent straw mulch?  Have you been doing this 
> for
> several years or more?  We've thought about that but have been put off by
> slow soil warming in the spring as well as concern about slug habitat.
> Bob G., Island Meadow Farm, Vashon, WA
> 
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