Worth's 2017 Accidental Garden.

[AlittleSalt]

Originally Posted by Worth1

I'm here and the okra is growing.
It has rained on me two days in a row on the way home and I cant get out to do anything.

Salt and the rest post what you want, I dont care.
You can talk about the moon and the stars for all I care.

I just hope the snails dont eat everything up.
Never in my life have I ever lived in a place with so many snails and slugs.
I still haven't found my snail killer.

Worth

Worth, starting back in the 1800s, Texas has made a snail and slug killer http://lonestarbeer.com/?age_verified=yes

But seriously, I hope you do get them under control.

[Jimbotomateo]

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

Worth, starting back in the 1800s, Texas has made a snail and slug killer http://lonestarbeer.com/?age_verified=yes

But seriously, I hope you do get them under control.

My cousin was in school at university of Houston. He'd put a 12 pack of beer in the fridge and when he came home the dudes he was rooming with had drank it every time! . He started drinking the beer you linked. Took him two months to develop a taste for the stuff! . Then he put a case of it in the fridge and they never touched it! . Jimbo

[Worth1]

Obvious difference in the fertilized bed and the non fertilized one.
It will be corrected this weekend.
Plants have leaves the size of silver dollars.
No pictures will be shown at this time.
I don't want to jinx them.
Two days in a row they have taken a beating from the rain.
Worth

[Worth1]

Amdro and snail killer on my shopping list on tbe they way home from work
The dill has sprouted.
Worth

[AlittleSalt]

I forgot to get Amdro, and spent too much money fixing the car. I guess I could try some Malathion and Triazicide on the mounds near where we park the car. Both stink but that's better than fireants.

[dmforcier]

Gasoline is rumored to work well, but it kinda leaves a bio-hole where the mound was. Nothing will grow there.

[AlittleSalt]

Forgot to buy gas for the mower too.

[Gardeneer]

Back in WA I fought slugs for years. Finally by 2016 I had cut the population down drastically.

You have to battle them by more than one way.
1) the best and sure way is to get out with a flash light , after dark and just hunt and destroy them.
2) during the day check their hiding places in cracks of rocks, under plastic, cardboard. You can actually use these things as trap. The hide just like Earwigs.
3) Slug B Gone (?). Not as expensive as "Sluggo" but it works like a charm.
4) You can cover certain plants with nylon tulle.

In the final analysis you would want to kill them. Slug bait is not really a bait. It would just tear their belly having them to bleed all the way to death. .

[dmforcier]

What about beer?




Assuming Worth has any left over...

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by dmforcier

What about beer?




Assuming Worth has any left over...

I just cant put myself to waste good alcohol on a slimy slug or a stinking snail.
I have tried and the depression I go through is unbelievable.
So I started using water sugar yeast and cooked rice to make a solution that works just as well.
You could drink the stuff.
One day my gallon container I was brewing in blew up and it sounded like a 12 gauge shotgun going off in the yard.

Worth

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by dmforcier

What about beer?




Assuming Worth has any left over...

I rather drink the beer myself.
But You can serve them beer too but you have to have too many serving cups
I have heard that yeast/water works just as good and it is a lot cheaper. Sprinkle a little sugar, some flour, the yeast will get active producing CO2. That is what is in beer that attracts slugs : THE PRODUCT OF FERMENTATION.

[GrowingCoastal]

So, if the fizz goes out of the beer it won't kill slugs?

[dmforcier]

I thought the product of fermentation was yeast ★★★★, a.k.a. ethanol?

[Worth1]

The critters are attracted to the yeast brew smell not the co2.
They go in get drunk and drown.
You dont have to drink alcohol to get drunk.
You can lay in a tub of it and it will absorb into your body.
Not that I have ever tried it.
Absorption injection inhalation and ingestion are how you can get alcohol poisoning but intoxication comes first.
Worth

[Worth1]

Great news I found the snail killer, I am so glad I didn't stop yesterday to buy more.
I fertilized the okra and weeded the devil out of one whole bed and half of the other.
Raked back leaves and spread out killer everywhere.
Planted more cucumber seeds and squash.
Took the runners of the sweet potatoes and buried them so they will make more sweet potatoes.
More sweet potato vines are coming out of the soil.
The tomato plants are going gangbusters now and just about to open a bloom or two.
Worth 0 snails 100.
But I am on the offense now.
For some crazy reason they have not messed with the watermelon seedlings yet.
And yes I got up this morning to see my favorite doe looking at me in the back yard.
She has a reddish coat compared to the other ones.
More than likely from all of the tomatoes she has ate.
She was looking wide too so I know she is carrying a baby.
During deer season she was nowhere to be seen.

Worth