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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Ducks in the garden
  • Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 08:56:38 -0500

Donna wrote, "Actually ducks are much better for slug control and don't scratch, but they waste too much water to be practical in the kind of severe droughts we've been going through."

I tried (Kaki Campbell [sp.]) ducks in my garden once. They preferred the garden plants to the weeds. They even ate hot peppers (serranos).................and no weeds. They didn't care for tomato plants either. Needless to say, I didn't allow them in the garden for a very long time.

Jim Fruth
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