Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!hp-kirk!mark From: mark@hp-kirk.UUCP Newsgroups: net.garden Subject: Re: Snails (slugs) - (nf) Message-ID: <1159@hp-pcd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 03:24:10 EDT Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.1159 Posted: Wed Jun 15 03:24:10 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jun-83 01:37:32 EDT Lines: 22 #R:rocksvax:-45500:hp-kirk:8100004:000:1410 hp-kirk!mark Jun 13 08:14:00 1983 As a resident of western Oregon, I am in a constant battle with slugs and to be honest have not had much success with beer in plates, slug traps, ground egg shells, or hand removal. Various other strategies that I am aware of from my neighbors have met with mixed success at best and I too have been reduced to the use of poisoned slug bait (some 5 pounds a week during cool wet weather which we have been known to have in Oregon on occassion). My current plans are to surround my garden with 2x4s on edge half buried so that slugs will have to crawl over the 2x4 to get at the garden. I then plan to set push pins in the wood at about 12" intervals and string wire from pin to pin and electrify it. If I get around to following through with this plan I'll post the results. Meanwhile, if anyone beats me to the punch or has some reason why they think this is a dumb idea, or has a better way to get rid of slugs I'd like to hear from you. Also if anyone has any experience with the use of ducks, geese, or peafowl to control slugs I'd also like to hear (this is a technique that does seem to get good reports for controling slugs but often introduce other problems). Nuke the slugs. "Death" Rowe hp-pcd!hp-cvd!mark Corvallis, Oregon