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From: mo@well.UUCP (Maurice Weitman)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Help me rid my strawberries of sowbugs, please.
Message-ID: <1398@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Jul-86 22:30:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.1398
Posted: Mon Jul  7 22:30:31 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jul-86 06:49:08 EDT
Reply-To: mo@well.UUCP (Maurice Weitman)
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito CA
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Greetings, strawberry fans:

  I've got twenty-five plants in a raised bed five by five foot box.
The plants are producing quite well: we get about six to ten ripe
berries per day total yield.  That is when we do something heroic
and tedious like carefully place each soon-to-be-ripe berry above
some leaves, therefore off the ground and out of the reach of the
ubiquitous sowbugs (pill bugs?).  They're everywhere in our garden,
although the only thing they eat that I mind is the strawberries.

  Anybody have any ideas to keep the buggers away (without using a
pesticide, please)?  I'd be happy to post a summary of net-mailed
responses.  Thanks.

  
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