I just saw on Martha Stewart last night that you can prevent slugs from
getting to your potted plants by tying a copper wire around the pot. She
said the slugs won't cross the wire due to a chemical reaction between
the copper and thier slime. Anyone have an opinion on this?

Peter Egerton,
Vancouver, Canada


At 06:08 PM 8/27/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Art,
>I pour white vinegar in the cracks of my patio to kill the weeds.  It works
>for a good while when it is dry, but once the rains come, the weeds start
>growing again.  When I had pets that spent time on the patio, I worried
>about using poisons, so I started using vinegar.
>
>Shell related - I couldn't tell that affected the slugs that like to eat my
>plants.  Still use beer or salt on them.
>Lucy Clampit
>Houston, TX
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Conchologists of America List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
>Behalf Of Art Weil
>Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 11:53 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Question Man
>
>Dear All---and others;-
>        I have been reading with great interest the matter of pesticides
>in the environment. Our super-molecules have given us a wealth of
>plastics and a plethora of ways to kill things. We have sprays for about
>every pest known to man---and a few known to women as well. I bought
>mole-poison. It doesn't work. My moles dip their worms in it like a
>chip-dip. But I also use Round-Up to keep weeds out of my driveway, wasp
>spray so my wife can go outside, and a thing called Snake-Away for the
>bottom of our garden.
>    IN the house, I find that flying insects will go to a light where
>they burn themselves up. No spray needed.
>    I'd give them all up if some of our pests were a bit less
>pestiferous.
>    The QUESTION is----has anyone out there got a better idea? AND will
>it work like today?
>        Q-man
>
>
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Collector of worldwide Mollusca,
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