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strawberries and snails #17270 July 20th, 2004 at 05:08 AM
Joined: Jul 2004 central texas zelinda Member
zelinda Member Joined: Jul 2004 central texas	Hi, My friend at work is having trouble with snails eating his strawberries. I told him I'd ask you guys for advice. Can you please tell me how to keep the snails away from the strawberries? Thanks!

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Re: strawberries and snails #17271 July 21st, 2004 at 06:04 AM
Joined: Apr 2003 N.Y. weezie13 Compost Queen!
weezie13 Compost Queen! Joined: Apr 2003 N.Y.	Zelinda, Tell your friend to find some diatomacious earth. It'll slice the bellies of the slugs and not hurt the strawberries one bit!!!

Re: strawberries and snails #17272 July 22nd, 2004 at 01:51 AM
Joined: Jul 2004 central texas zelinda Member
zelinda Member Joined: Jul 2004 central texas	Thanks for the info Weezie. I passed it onto my friend. BTW, this sounds like such a violent solution

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