Bugs

Topic started on Mon May 12 02:17:56 PDT 1995 Last post on Sun May 7 10:17:50 PDT 1995

Carol Stefan carol@lne.com Mon May 1 01:23:12 PDT 1995
Help! The snails are eating my lettuces. I keep an organic garden and I'd rather not use chemical pesticides to get rid of them -- what can I do?

Marianne Fosburg fosburg@mail3.catherine.edu Mon May 1 04:23:14 PDT 1995
I've had good luck with the bowl-of-beer routine -- dig a hole in the ground by your lettuces and stick a bowl in it so that the edges of the bowl are flush with the ground. Then fill the bowl about halfway with beer. The snails like the beer better than the lettuce, and they fall in and drown!

Alan Morton alm@netcom45.netcom.com Wed May 3 13:08:59 PDT 1995
The bowl works OK, but you have to fish mushy dead snails out of old beer every day. I like the copper strip method -- tack copper strips to a board and put it all the way around your bed. (the one in the garden). The snails won't cross it.

Carol Stefan carol@lne.com Fri May 5 23:09:27 PDT 1995
Where do I get copper strips?

Alan Morton alm@netcom45.netcom.com Sat May 6 13:10:05 PDT 1995
Any hardware store should have them.

Laura Lemay lemay@lne.com Sun May 7 10:17:50 PDT 1995
The Books That Work Garden Encyclopedia, available on the Web, has lots of good information about pest control in Chapter 4. Check it out!

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