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He ate my tulips and crocus down to the

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  5/14/2007 12:40 am

Try garlic powder ! seems to work through a couple rainfalls ,I also use red pepper flakes seems to keep at least the mammals away .Pill bugs are my curse !
 
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  5/14/2007 2:32 am

Never thought of garlic, what I did was pull all the dry leaves from my chives and twirled them over the tulips in the back he never touched those and I put onions skins in a net bag in the middle of the crocus. This also seemed to work for me, after the fact! As for the pill bugs that is due to dampness I belive. We had them in one of the apartments we lived in, Ortho for ants and whatever is on the can I used, it took several sprayings around the sliding doors but we did rid them. There is also a product for ants that is a granual that I sprinkled out side of the sliding doors that seemed to work, I got it at Lowe's it has a black ant on the blue can. I just used some of that along my driveways for those tiny (we call them piss ants) and they has not been any activity around the mounds for days now. Maybe some of this will help you! That's for your suggestions!
 
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  5/14/2007 2:35 pm

Thank you for the advice for pill bugs .I have used pesticides on them before and it does work but they always return to eat my seedlings!I garden around our patio and decks so I was hoping to find something less toxic.O'well its the joys of gardening I guess!lol!
 
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