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Pests (from Book: No-Waste Organic Gardening); Chapter Garden Maintenance …

- - - - 1 tbsp soap + 1liter water
- - - - repeatedly lay traps every night for 1 week
        
        to reduce population
  - - - wet leaves
        
        night & dark
        
        shine penlight under leaf
        
        Earwig scurry
        
        slow slug
        
        see slimy snail trails
  - - - 3 water : 1 soy sauce : 1 tsp molasses
        
        container & shake
        
        evening
        
        bury container till level with ground
        
        pour thin layer veg oil
        
        next morning catch earwigs
        
        1 more item...
    - - roll newspaper lengthwise
        
        put on ground
        
        wet it
        
        EARLY next morning
        
        discard earwigs
        
        shake earwigs into saopy bucket
        
        throw away in plastic bag
  - - - damp areas
- - - - >90K grandkids each
  - - - chicken
      - ducks
    - - beer bait
        
        old beer
        
        in container burried
        
        top level with soil
        
        beer atracts slugs
        
        slugs drown in beer
      - iron phosphate bait
    - - crushed eggshell around plants
        
        cut skin of slug
        
        33% failure
    - - from diatoms (fossilized algae)
        
        ground to dust
        
        use goggles, gloves, dust mask during application
        
        1-1.5 inch wide band around plants
        
        after heavy rain
        
        crawl on dust
        
        sticks to slug
        
        cause body dry out
  - - - more sunlight exposure :check:
    - - rotting undergrowth :red_cross:
      - excessive mulch :red_cross: