Re: "Is something eating your plants?"

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When I gardened, I made sure not to overweed, just clean up right next ro the plantings. Usually the nearby weeds provided plenty of food for pests used to the local flora, leaving my plants mostly intact...

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2024-10-30 · 2 years ago

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🐦 JustASillyBird · Mar 01 at 19:19:

I had trouble with snails, so I ran two strips of copper tape around the planters and put a few volts across those from a solar trickle-charged battery. Worked great. The world's tiniest electric fence - no snail would cross. It lasted for a year before the tape corroded, so if I built it again I'd use something more durable.

🐦 JustASillyBird · Mar 01 at 19:20:

And I won't be building it again, because saving my lettuce from the snails just left more for the leaf miners!

Only one pest is allowed to eat my lettuce: Me.

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☯️ dragfyre:

Is something eating your plants? — Love the heck out of this. "If something is not eating your plants, then your garden is not part of the ecosystem." (links in post)

💬 5 comments · 2 likes · 2024-10-30 · 2 years ago