Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site hercules.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!teklds!hercules!archiel From: archiel@hercules.UUCP (Archie Lachner) Newsgroups: net.garden Subject: use of black plastic sheeting Message-ID: <139@hercules.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Mar-84 12:42:41 EST Article-I.D.: hercules.139 Posted: Mon Mar 12 12:42:41 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 14-Mar-84 09:13:03 EST Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 30 I recently read an article in a gardening magazine describing a garden made of raised rows covered with black plastic sheets. A drip irrigation system was installed under the plastic, and holes were cut for the plants to grow through. The object of this was to create a low-maintenance-time high-productivity vegetable garden. There is one problem that the article did not address, slug and snail control. We live in the slug capital of the country, Oregon's Willamette Valley, and keeping the slugs from eating the vegetables before we get a chance is a constant battle. One possibility would be to put slug bait under the plastic when it was put down. This doesn't sound good to me, since the irrigation system would dissolve the pellets and spread the poison to the plant roots, etc. Another method would be to use Deadline on top of the plastic around all of the plants. This would work well for slugs above the plastic, but not for those that might get underneath it by hatching there or some other means. Does anybody have any other suggestions? Please respond to the net. Thanks in advance. Archie Lachner uucp: {ucbvax,decvax,pur-ee,cbosg,ihnss}!tektronix!teklds!archiel CSnet: archiel@tek ARPAnet: archiel.tek@rand-relay -- Archie Lachner uucp: {ucbvax,decvax,pur-ee,cbosg,ihnss}!tektronix!teklds!archiel CSnet: archiel@tek ARPAnet: archiel.tek@rand-relay