Deborah Turton on sun 7 mar 04

A friend of mine said she and her daughter have been using coffee
grounds on slugs with no effects, now I don't know how many grounds
they're using, but has anyone else found them ineffective? I've had
great results with them.

Deborah Turton

Kimm Miller on sun 7 mar 04

Deborah wrote:

> A friend of mine said she and her daughter have been using coffee
> grounds on slugs with no effects, now I don't know how many grounds
> they're using, but has anyone else found them ineffective? I've had
> great results with them.

I've not seen that coffee grounds help with slug control as I've seen slugs
crawling over them in the past. However I have sprayed the buggers with cold
caffinated coffee and wached them wriggle and squirm and vacate the area not
to return for the season. USDA
researchers in Hawaii found that cold caffinated coffee was very effective
when sprayed on plant leaves in deterring them buggers.

Kimm

Patricia Ruggiero on tue 16 mar 04

Deborah wrote:

> A friend of mine said she and her daughter have been using
> coffee grounds on slugs

I've been away, so am behind in reading email.....Deborah, did you see
Kathryn's post when we were discussing English Ivy? She mentioned it as a
slug-deterrent. Do you have a ready source of EI?

Pat