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Aloha,
I am trying to raise vegetables here in Hawaii. I was a very successful backyard gardener on the mainland. I built 6 ft x 4 ft cedar containers with a 4 ft depth and filled them with "Super Soil" and compost (from my bin). I seem to only have success with eggplant, cucumbers (sometimes) and Hawaiian chili peppers. I even built a frame with window screen on one of the boxes to keep the birds from eating the tomatoes. But my real problem is slugs. I've never had to deal with so many and so big even when I had hundreds of hostas in Ohio. They seem to eat the seedlings and bedding plants (they can make a pepper seedling disappear overnight). I've tried diamotaceous earth, hair clippings, beer. I'm afraid to use slug bait because I have 2 dogs and I don't want to poison them. I wondered if millipedes from the compost might be eating some of the plants but I think the slugs are the biggest problem. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Please. At this point my vegetables are a pretty hefty investment.
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