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Do you know if the egg shells would keep slugs away from plants?
Lucy Clampit
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From: Livett Family [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, July 10, 1998 10:27 AM
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Subject: Re: Dolomite for snails?
Snails do not like crawling across eggshells. In fact that is the way we
maintain the seedlings in our garden, just put a ring of lightly crushed egg
shells around the seedlings and they are protected from the snails :)
Bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: Sher Williams <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, 11 July 1998 0:44
Subject: Re: Dolomite for snails?
>Excellent, I am glad someone corrected me, now I know not to always listen
>to my mother (a health freak).
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>Is there anything in it that may be harmful to snails? And if snails
>ordinarily get there calcium from the dirt and the food they eat, could
>something similar (perhaps the chalk dust mantioned) be mixed into their
>dirt?
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Aydin Orstan <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tuesday, 7 July 1998 22:50
>Subject: Dolomite for snails?
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>>Dolomite, the mineral, is not "pure calcium", it is CaMg(CO3)2. I don't
>know
>>if the snails can utilize it.
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>>A.
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