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<wildbilly-4658C9.12321210052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Billy <wildbilly@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <1210444932.221830@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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:-)
The heart asks pleasure first/The promise 4:52
Michael Nyman
The Piano Soundtracks 1 4/10/08 6:57 PM
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nyman>
<http://www.michaelnyman.com/biography.php>
My other is getting a high tech knee replacement in two days and the
jest of it is I will be busy. Mean while music is great to garden too
and heal by.
Bill
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Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA
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