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[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by nutronjon

That sounds good. I had heard of the beer cure, but throught evaporation and rain would make that effort futile. I will look for ways to make a trap that is protected from weather.

The slugs are very happy in the high grass. Seems to make sense that keeping surrounding grass short or elementating it all together with mulch, would improve the situation? I picked out 8 while working in the garden today. I am really concerned as much of the surrounding area isn't going to be cared for.

Turlte, I have an alcoholic, homeless friend who has expressed interest in helping in the garden. I am curious to see if this helps him in important ways, like self esteem and motivation to clean up a little bit. I need to carry these thoughts to the social science forum.

I used to be into ferns in a big way, one of the problems I had was slugs eating the tender fiddle heads. I had several birds nest ferns that had stalks five feet high and leaves that spread out over four feet. It took me many years to grow them this way and the secret was slug control. The large pots I grew them in were an easy avenue for slugs to climb up and eat the center of the fern. i fixed their wagon by bending a copper wire around the pot about halfway up. Slugs cannot crawl across a copper wire due to a chemical reaction with the slugs body slime. Could you use this to repel the slugs? There are also pellets that slugs will eat that kill them.