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Thanks ladies!
Lynn,
Yes, I do think that I have slugs (Though I've never seen any or the slime that they leave behind.) or something of that nature.
I've tried to fight the slugs w/ eggshells, coffee grounds, a mixture that I found on the net and, chemicals w/o any luck.
Last fall I used that stuff (Sluggo?) that you recommended and in the spring as well but didn't use any chemicals later on as I only tried to treat organically throughout the summer because our yngst dau planted a couple of tomato plants in between the sedums as there were big spaces w/ nothing growing there since it was the first yr I'd planted my sedum plants.
I thought maybe it was because of the tomato planting but I am doubting that now.
The very small green caterpillars got to my sedums first and I got most of them off but I really didn't want to fully destroy them because of them eventually being a benefit w/ pollinating later in the summer.
I also sprayed w/ a mixture of dish water, garlic, very hot peppers and if I rembr correctly I put onions in it too.
I let it sit in the hot sun for a few days before I used it.
I made 4 gallons of this mixture and used it on all of my plants throughout the summer.
I'd pulled most of my Echinaceas from my other garden last summer per Clint's suggestion because many of them had "leaf hoppers" disease.
A few grew back this past summer and I ended up only having to pull one due to the leaf hoppers disease.
I sprayed them w/ the dish water veggie mixture too.
Both of my big flower gardens were eaten by whatever it is that's eating them.
I have hole in leaves and they turn brown then black.
Are grubs and slugs one in the same?
Perhaps I have both?
I'd wondered about voles only because one morning before I left for the clinic I went out to check my sedums and a black rodent ran out from that area, I thought it was a mouse.
When I got home that evening I found a nest of cute little voles under the pool deck and we also saw big and little ones running under our patio deck.
I "think" we solved that prblm after putting poison out as we'd gotten a prize of several dead voles.
I even looked up voles vs mice on the net so I was sure that they were indeed voles and not mice.
And, also as I mentioned above in my earlier post we got lots of rabbits as well and they "hang out" where my sedums are located.
I must admit, I am stumped.
