[Arid_gardener] Question from Home-Hort WWW page

[Dick Gross]

Jeff, I've dealt with Slugs and snails but not in the past several years. 
What I am about to tell you, if my memory isn't playing tricks on me, works.

Get a 5 lb bag of gysum and a garden blower from your local nursery. The 
blower used to be standard equipment in nurseries but I haven't seen one in 
a while. It has a 30 inch by 3 inch tube attached to small cage blower that 
sucks the dust from a small pint or so reservoir ejecting a fine, dry dust 
out of the nozzle. The gypsum is residue from sea shells the sharp edges of 
which cut into the crawling critter's gut and it bleeds to death. Do it in 
the evening before dusk while air is still before they come out to feed and 
wear a dust mask. You can in a few minutes lay a fine layer on everything in 
your yard.

Didk Gross, MGV MCCE


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Subject: [Arid_gardener] Question from Home-Hort WWW page


> jeff provencher
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> jeffprovencher at msn.com
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> we have tons of snails in our back yard (grass) we are assuming this is 
> what is killing our lawn. we live in sun lakes and nobody seems to be able 
> to tell us what to do. we have tried all kinds of lawn products to no 
> avail. please help. they love moisure.
>
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