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esor105
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Help,I need a good way to get rid of these pests.I tried some pellets but the mess I got the next day was awful.Is there some way to keep them away? This S.C. rain is driving me nuts.
Plants: 34 | From: South Carolina | Registered: Jun 2003  |  Seeded: 205.188.208.104
catlover
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What kind of mess are you talking about? Mess of dead snails or mess from the pellets????? Do you have animals and/or young children? Catlover

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Plants: 7129 | From: California | Registered: Mar 2003  |  Seeded: 68.66.244.106
Bunny
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Lots of info on killing snails/slugs on this sight. You could do a search. What I've learned in a few short months on this sight, is that you could hunt them at night with a flashlight (but that seems slow going for me). Others said you can bury a bowl up to the rim and fill it with beer (they'll drown). Egg shells around the base of the plant (although that hasn't worked to well for me.) Coffee grounds around the base. Copper strips (they won't cross them, so don't trap them in your garden!). I transplanted two spirea bushes and killed about 20 slugs in doing so! Salt will kill them but will harm the garden. So, you've entered a subject that I'm sure will get a lot of responses! We all hate slugs!!

--Bunny T.

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Plants: 177 | From: Land of Lincoln (Illinois) | Registered: May 2003  |  Seeded: 64.12.96.70
floweraddict
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Member # 447

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Being your neighbor, i know what u mean about the slugs. It's been raining almost everyday here... It's hard to keep the bait from washing away. I noticed that there are different baits out there, and some are supposed to be effective even if it does rain. U just got to keep at.
"KILL" is the key word.....
If u have a squirrel problem... u "kill" them.
If u have a Japanese Beetle problem, U "kill" them....
If u have a ground hog problem, u "kill" them...
If u have a slug problem, u "kill" them!!!
Death is the only answer.... LOL!
Just messing with u...
Just don't kill catlover's cat...

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Bob
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Plants: 640 | From: in my garden | Registered: Jan 2003  |  Seeded: 64.12.96.70
catlover
The Cheetah!
Member # 654

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Watch out FlowerAddict, your stepping on sensitive ground now!!!!!!!!

You can add GOPHERS to that kill wish list!!!!


Wish you would call your squirrel back home, now he is uplifting all my moms ground drainpipe grates (or chewing a hole in them when he can't pop them off) and getting into the bucket of bird seed!!! Tricky son of a guns!!!!

Catlover

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Plants: 7129 | From: California | Registered: Mar 2003  |  Seeded: 68.66.244.106
floweraddict
Super Gardener
Member # 447

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Would u believe i took a shot at #41 this morning and missed!!!!!!!!! How humiliating...

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Bob
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Plants: 640 | From: in my garden | Registered: Jan 2003  |  Seeded: 205.188.208.104
weezie13
Compost Queen!
Member # 772

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The neighbor didn't yell ouch did they?
BIG SMILE!!;~)
Weezie

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Bible - Hebrews 13:2

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Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.54.67.43
   

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