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"Val" <ya-shur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Bill" <b2forewagner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> > Every year I ask where can I purchase an ounce of iron phosphate ?
> > Sluggo and others consist of 1% iron phosphate and 99 % breads or a
> > starch.
> >
> > Active ingredient 1% for expensive box .
> >
> > Bill who would dissolve iron phosphate in soda.
>
> Interesting that you mention this. Just recently on a local TV gardening
> program I was watching a caller asked the same question of our 'organic
> guru'. He explained that the other '90%' inert ingredient served two
> purposes. 1. to facilitate proper and easy distribution. 2. to serve as
an
> attractant. Apparently just spraying or flinging iron phosphate around
won't
> do much, it rapidly dissipates, assimilates, can't remember the exact
term
> used, into the soil and is quickly rendered ineffective. If you just
pile it
> the slugs won't be drawn to it and eat it.
>
> If you really want to do DIY Sluggo I'd look up a copy of the MSDS
sheet,
> get the exact chemical name and google 'chemical suppliers'. I just did
that
> and one of the first hits of 'affordable, free ****pping' supplier's
smallest
> amount available was $689.00. You may wish to search further. I can buy
a
> whole lot of Sluggo for 600 bucks.
>
> Val
That is what Bill was talking about Val. Buying the ferric phosphate
(Fe+++ PO4---) to add to bread, or mushed banana, or whatever. If your
going to buy the commercial product, Home Despot has a ferric phosphate
bait for about half the price of Sluggo. The idea, though, was to cut
out the middleman:-)
--
Billy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVTfcAyYGg&ref=patrick.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0aEo59c7zU&feature=related
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