If you take vegetable oil or liquid soap (NOT DETERGENT) mixed with water and spray the plant with scale, you smother the scale and kill it. This is much quicker than hand picking and also completely organic chuck Schwartz ----- Original Message ----- From: <Theladygardens@aol.com> To: <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] scale > We have scale also and it is extremely hard to get off. Hand picking > each > one does work and is messy and very time consuming. A blast of water may > work > before they make the shells that are attached to the plant. There are > several kinds of scale and maybe Carlos has a different scale than we > have. We > have more than one kind. I think many people on this list don't realize > what a > problem snails and slugs can be either. I can pick up over 100 in a 30 > minute time frame and keep doing this all day long in bright sunlight and > there > are still more. So when people talk about just hand picking those, they > obviously live in areas that do not have so many. We work on controlling > them > every year, all year long. > Carolyn in Los Gatos where we are constantly dealing with snails and > slugs. > > > > ************************************** AOL now offers free email to > everyone. > Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com/. > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php