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Article #163Re: Summer Winds and Sales (was Re: heirloom tomatoes)
From: The Ranger
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 16:57
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 16:57
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Jon Shemitz <jon@midnightbeach.com> suggested in message news:408032FE.422E1EB4@midnightbeach.com after I volunteered: > > I'll make a special effort tomorrow to enhance my > > snail-smorgasbord since those crawling terrors chowed > > down on all twenty of my peppers! > > > My all-purpose response to this is to take a clear two liter soda > bottle, punch four or five breathing holes in the bottom and slice off > the top. This produces a disposable cloche - a greenhouse-like dome > that both protects seedlings from snails until they're established AND > keeps them warm and protected from wind. See also > <http://www.yougrowgirl.com/garden/pop_cloche.php>. I like this idea but have a question: How do you keep from frying the seedlings into cartoonish matchsticks during sunny days? The Ranger
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: faa31,329620f99a2012d4 X-Google-Attributes: gidfaa31,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-17 09:51:26 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!grnfld.ppp.tsoft.COM!not-for-mail From: "The Ranger" <cuhulain_-98@yahoo.com> Newsgroups: ba.gardens Subject: Re: Summer Winds and Sales (was Re: heirloom tomatoes) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:57:18 -0700 Organization: Yahooin' All The Way! Lines: 19 Message-ID: <c5rnac$53gg7$1@ID-61173.news.uni-berlin.de> References: <Ru3ec.4497$k05.4271@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <c5c8e8$3t1d$1@ID-61173.news.uni-berlin.de> <PJiec.5847$A_4.1144@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> <c5n9pv$3lfo4$1@ID-61173.news.uni-berlin.de> <408032FE.422E1EB4@midnightbeach.com> Reply-To: "The Ranger" <cuhulain_-98@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: grnfld.ppp.tsoft.com (198.144.199.253) X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1082220685 5358087 I 198.144.199.253 ([61173]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165