Comments on: Total Dehydration Averted

By: Missa

Missa — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:19:58 +0000

you can try eggshells for the slugs - you dry them out after washing them, I put them in a jar with an old pool ball (que ball) and then shake them up. then you pour them around the edges of the garden and they slugs don’t like to climb over them because the are sharp. Here in Washington state, we have tons, from all the rain, so it works pretty good, I start saving egg shells in large jars all year and use them when my garden is starting to get invaded, and if I have any left over, I just throw them in the dirt before I turn it.

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:43:50 +0000

so copper kills the slugs/snails? I’ve not heard of that but will try anything non toxic at this point, they’re everywhere! Do I buy copper wire and lay it in the gardens?

By: Angelina

Angelina — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:47:05 +0000

I am always torn between thinking bats are kind of gross and thinking they are really cute. this picture is cute. But I would have screamed if I’d laid my hand on it too!

All the water my garden is getting is now from me. Hand watering season has begun. I really wish I had set up a drip system, but who had time? The good thing about it is that it makes me go out there and hang with my plants.

By: steven

steven — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:28:06 +0000

My evening watering rounds coincide with the bat’s flight around my yard, Ilove watching them flit about after insects.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:55:03 +0000

My office is in a beautiful old house that besides being a law office is also a breeding colony for bats. And yes, I remember swimming outside at night as a kid and worrying about a bat getting caught in my hair.

By: Patti

Patti — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:37:22 +0000

Great bat picture! Very cool! Have you ever raised butterflies? I did years ago, and am planning on doing it again this year. I love to watch those butterflies emerge from chrysalis.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:59:51 +0000

Do you remember being told they’d get tangled in your hair if you stayed out at night when you were a kid? My sister and I woke up to one in our bedroom one night very late. We were terrified to go back to sleep after my parents got it out.

By: Lisa B-K

Lisa B-K — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:40:01 +0000

Oh, god, a bat. We were just talking about them tonight. Jim found one in the backyard that had hit an electrical wire and was stunned into, well, death by the blow.

I think the IDEA of bats is great, and what they DO is great, but they freak me the frack outat night when they whiz past my head.