> JF>in  from my newly planted garden... and three of my baby plants have
 > been rudely  ravaged by snails... Any suggestions for that?
 >   Snails are soft, right? They HATE crawling over very rough territory
 >   (making all that slime must be very debilitating); so some people use
 >   fine gravel, coarsely crushed eggshells, squares of sandpaper or
 >   roofing tiles around plants to discourage snails. Some also leave
 >   boards and a bit of food garbage in little heaps a short distance
 >   away, then check these traps come morning and destroy any slimy
 >   invaders.
        Hey!  I just put some bits of eggshells around each plant tonight... 
For a very different reason... But I guess it's even better for the plants 
than I thought...
 > JF>little cup of stale  beer to deter the snails... I don't exactly know
 > JF>why... getting them drunk  will curb their appetite for my plants?   
)
 >   It's the yeast component of beer that attracts them; so dropping a
 >   little bread yeast in warm sugar water and placing the resulting
 >   bubbly stuff in sunken tin cans should do the same. For some reason,
 >   the beer either kills them outright, or disrupts their "thinking" so
 >   that they don't take shelter before daybreak
 >   Dogs also like yeasts; so they aren't apt to be harmed or made drunk
 >   by the yeast mixture. (Tell us if they are! I knew one beer-slurping
 >   dog. :-))
        Well I don't know about getting dogs drunk... But you're right about 
beer drinking dogs... One of our dogs loves beer... she's quite a little 
character!   '-)
                                        Chat with ya later!
                                        Janis   '-)
        PS
How'd ya like my little snail-ish drawing up at the top of this message? It's 
a wanna-be snail!  :)
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